Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
Living organisms underpin our food, climate stability, and materials – ecological collapse threatens the foundations of civilisation. By pairing advanced monitoring with resilience-boosting interventions, we could halt biodiversity loss and enable people and nature to thrive.
Mast-EER: a Masters by Research to advance ecosystem resilience
Apply by 31 July for a September 2026 start
We believe that urgent, hard problems aren't solved by well-established approaches. Humanity-scale challenges need people who think outside the box.
Backed by £500,000, Mast-EER is a Masters by Research (MbyRes) programme at the University of Exeter, Cornwall.
A pilot for ARIA, the MbyRes aims to develop a cohort of 20 interdisciplinary ecological scientists who are comfortable working at the edge of what is currently possible, challenging assumptions, and tackling complex problems where the answers are far from obvious in order to bring about a step-change for ecosystem resilience.
Students will be based at the University's Penryn Campus in Cornwall and will undertake an independent research project aligned with the Engineering Ecosystem Resilience opportunity space.
Visit the University of Exeter website for more information on Mast-EER and the application process.
“Supporting communities of responsible innovators who have an authentic ambition to redefine our relationship with nature is precisely the kind of bet ARIA wants to be making.”
Yannick Wurm
Programme Director