PhD Agroforestry

PhD Agroforestry

Research on the interaction of people, agriculture and trees at a range of scales from ecophysiological interactions among system components through to landscape level effects, across both temperate and tropical environments, with a focus on multipurpose tree species and farm trees.

Research Areas

Agroforestry with specialisms in:

• Role of trees in the agricultural landscape
• Formal representation of local ecological knowledge
• Tree-crop-soil interactions
• Autecology and domestication of indigenous tree species

Programme Length

PhD: 3 years full-time or 5 years part-time; MPhil: 2 years full-time or 3 years part-time

Study Overseas

We offer ‘split’ PhD/MPhil programmes for international students with part of the study taking place in the student’s own country or a third country. Many of our British and other European students also carry out fieldwork overseas for their research.