Are you eager to enhance your skills and knowledge in conservation research and education, while developing leadership capacity? Utilising innovative pedagogy, we have customised a 10-week training course for early to mid-career conservationists, to offer you experiential learning on a digital platform for the burgeoning of future leaders of this industry.
Over 200 participants from 20 different countries in Asia and 10 countries from Africa have graduated from the Wildlife Conservation Course since its inception in 2014, while 170 conservationists have benefitted from the eLearning Wildlife Conservation Course, created in 2018 to hone skills required to transform research into impact. Building on those successes, our first-of-its-kind Leadership in Wildlife Conservation Course has integrated both their best features to advance you into the next phase of your career.
Consisting of weekly 3-hour synchronous virtual sessions and 3-hour asynchronous activities, we aim to apply what you learn and expand the horizons of your expertise on various topics. This course will incorporate serious games, adventure stories and real-world scenarios, which are proven to improve knowledge retention, increase intrinsic motivation and encourage bonds with other participants.
Cedric K.W. Tan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Conservation Education, University of Nottingham; Director of WildCRU’s Wildlife Conservation Courses 2016-2020, is an award-winning educator and published researcher. Cedric joined WildCRU in 2014 after completing his first postdoctoral research position and DPhil in Zoology at the Edward Grey Institute of Ornithology, University of Oxford. He is passionate about effective evidence-based applied ecology and education, which drives him to pursue both disciplines in innovative ways. Cedric has directed training courses in Malaysia, Africa, and China, nurturing hundreds of future leaders in conservation.
PhD candidate, University of Nottingham Malaysia; Co-tutor of WildCRU’s Wildlife Conservation Courses 2018-2020
Program Officer, Bersih 2.0
Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Malaysia
You will first learn how to develop research questions, then design data collection procedures, analyse the data and finally communicate the findings effectively.
The Programme will cover the following topics:
Upon course completion, you should be able to:
Open to limited seats only.
Apply nowThe best feature of the course is its gamified approach, it’s an avenue for us to express our creativity, competitiveness and teamwork while developing our technical knowledge.
Wildlife Conservation Course 2018 Participant
“I am grateful to Dr Cedric Tan for offering this course, it inspired me to incorporate games into my current environmental educations programmes. The teaching is engaging and relevant and the mind mapping outlines ways to raise awareness about conservation issues.
Founder and Head of Langur Project Penang
WCC 2018 was one of the most enjoyable experience of my academic year, I especially enjoyed the module on communicating research and environmental policymaking, overall, the course is fun and inspiring.
Wildlife Conservation Course 2018 Participant
Ultimately, the metrics of success is the journey you will take after the course to provide solutions to tackle environmental issues and to enrich the lives of the communities through your conservation project.
Biodiversity and Sustainable Landscape Specialist from Phillipines
