Careers and professional development

Students from this MSc (previously titled Anthropology, Environment and Development) have gone on to a wide range of careers in environment and development, working in research, teaching, consultancy, policy development and advocacy across a range of sectors, from universities and research institutions, to NGOs and intergovernmental agencies, private companies and national governments.

Our graduates have held positions at institutions such as:

Other MSc alumni have continued on to PhD research within this department and beyond. PhD topics have included:

Identifying and understanding consumers of wild animal products in Hanoi, Vietnam: implications for conservation management. (Rebecca Drury, UCL Anthropology; ESRC studentship. MSc title: ‘Wildlife use by Ethnic Phnong, North East Cambodia’. Presently Head of Wildlife Trade, Fauna & Flora International).
Land, people and post-socialist policies in southern Siberia. (Tatyana Intigrinova, UCL Anthropology; Dorothy Hodgkin Award)
Conservation and development; the search for synergies around an MPA on the coast of Kenya (Christine Carter, UCL Anthropology; ESRC Studentship)
Roads, rights and resources: Environment and development in southern Belize (Sophie Haines, UCL Anthropology, ESRC Studentship)

Skills training, personal and professional development

All students are encouraged to take full advantage of the Skills Programme offered by UCL.

General research skills and personal development and employment related skills are catered for through courses in the following areas:

library/electronic and archive resources
IT skills
languages; writing/reading/thesis preparation
research environment; presenting and publishing your research
entrepreneurship and the management of innovation
teaching skills
personal and professional development
career management and employability skills