Ecology Academy

This course took you through step by step what was expected of a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal and therefore gave me a good expectation and starting point when I started as a assistant ecologist just a few days after the course finishing. Would recommend to anyone at entry level or looking for their first position in ecology.

The modules are easy to work through and bitesized, there are useful links and documents to help do further work outside of the course and provides the basics to creating a logical PEA.

Excellent for anyone with an interest in ecology as well as for university students

I took this course in January when I started applying for jobs in ecology because I hadn't taken a course directly related to ecological consultancy before and didn't know where to start in terms of knowing the key legislation and policies. This course sets out the most important pieces of legislation and policy framework which meant that I had a framework for understanding and looking things up further. I applied for a job as a graduate ecologist where one of the requirements was a good understanding of key legislation and policy and today I got offered the role. If you're very new to ecology and don't know where to start, this is a great place!