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ArticleBioscience2024

Assessing the breadth and multidisciplinarity of the conservation curriculum in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Helena Slater, Janet Fisher, George Holmes, Chris Sandbrook, Aidan Keane

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Article in Bioscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025
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5 authors.

Helena SlaterSchool of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4952-6738
Janet FisherSchool of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
George HolmesSchool of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom.
Chris SandbrookDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.
Aidan KeaneSchool of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There have been repeated calls to train conservationists capable of transcending disciplinary boundaries. However, little empirical work has been done to document conservation teaching. We investigate the content taught in conservation higher education across the United Kingdom and Australia. Using data from an online survey and content analysis of module descriptions, we assess the prevalence of subject areas in 146 conservation modules and topics in 368 conservation modules and 62 conservation degrees. Biological sciences subject areas were represented in 92% of the modules, whereas social sciences subject areas only featured in 60% and humanities in 24%. Of the modules teaching biological sciences subject areas, 84% included biological sciences faculty but only 31% of the modules covering social sciences subject areas included faculty from the social sciences. Who teaches matters. The disciplinary expertise in conservation education needs to diversify to train conservationists capable of addressing conservation challenges. This requires institutional changes and support from prominent societies to promote interdisciplinary education.

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conservationeducationinterdisciplinary sciencemultidisciplinaryteaching

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PMID39421011
PMCPMC11480662

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