Research
Our staff are active in the following areas of research
- Conservation Science
- Crops and Livestock
- Environmental and Soil Science
- Forestry
- Rivers and Catchments
- People, Space and Place
- Geospatial Analysis
News
- We used 60-year-old notebooks to find out why male hippos have bigger tusks than females
11 October 2021 - Bringing voices from Madagascar’s rainforest into the heart of the international climate change debate
24 September 2021 - Revealing hidden extinction risk in Madagascar’s rare plant species
21 September 2021 - Major new study will explore if a tree’s ‘memory’ can increase its resilience
20 August 2021 - Acer planted at Treborth to mark success of new graduates
11 August 2021 - Read all news
Research in Environment and Natural Resources
In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than 80% of our research was rated as being at least ‘internationally excellent’ with more than 25% being ‘world leading’.
We maintain a world-class reputation for research. Bangor University achieved a very strong performance in our subject areas in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment of UK universities.
Outputs of 69% of the school’s staff were submitted to REF2014 from across its research portfolio, including soil science, climate change impacts and mitigation, catchment science, environmental microbiology, environmental pollution, crop science and breeding, conservation, ecological economics, forest and agroforestry science, ecosystem services Chemistry, Biological Sciences and geography.
Partners and Collaborators
Our staff work with a wide range of partners, from local organisations through to UK, European and international institutions.