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Postgraduate learning

Praying mantis on leaf
General information

Student information from who to contact and funding sources to research and student facilities.

E.huxleyi Coccolithophore imaged in an electron microscope.
PhD opportunities

Doctoral students at the Museum are all jointly supervised in collaboration with British and overseas universities.

Curators examining zoological specimens preserved in alcohol
MSc advanced methods in taxonomy and biodiversity

A one year Masters course run jointly by Imperial College, London and the Natural History Museum.

Students on geology field trip
MRes biosystematics

A brand new one year research-based postgraduate course, since October 2002.

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MSc in micropalaeontology

A one-year, full-time course, based at University College London, with project work at the Natural History Museum

Identification Qualifications - IdQ

Identification Qualifications: setting the industry standard in specimen identification.