Resource list
To help you prepare for studying in the School of Earth and Environment, we have gathered together some resources which you may find interesting and informative. However, there is no pre-requisite reading that needs to be done.
Online courses
Our Environmental Challenges collection of free short online courses look at the relationships between people and nature, and the challenging and difficult decisions we face when managing natural resources.
- Environmental Challenges: Justice in Natural Resource Management
- Environmental Challenges: Rights and Values in Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Challenges: Hierarchy in Property Rights
- Environmental Challenges: Human Impact in the Natural Environment
- Environmental Challenges: Scarcity and Conflict in the Natural Environment
- Planet Earth: Understanding and Protecting our Environment
- Renewable Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Microgrids
- Renewable Energy: Achieving Sustainability through Bioenergy
- A Nutritional Approach to Agriculture and Food Security
- Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health
- Climate Change and Resilience in Food Systems
Research and Innovation at the University
Our research actively informs our teaching programme and you can follow these links to find out about our current research:
- Earth Surface Science Institute
- Institute of Applied Geoscience
- Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Sustainability Research Institute
- Research themes
Taster lectures
To give you a snapshot of what it is like to study with us our academics have put together a number of short taster lectures relevant to our different undergraduate degree offerings.
- Fantastic beasts and why to conserve them (Environmental Science BSc and Sustainability and Environmental Management BSc)
- Rumbly with a chance of shakes (Geology BSc)
- Mapping animal burrows with geophysics (Geophysics BSc)
- The building blocks of infrastructure futures (Environment and Business BA)
University resources
The University of Leeds also offers many useful resources to help you transition to higher education learning.