Master of Pest Management

Summary

New Zealand’s native ecosystem is facing a host of challenges from invasive pests. There’s an urgent need for experts to help strengthen our biosecurity systems and achieve the goal of predator-free by 2050, using effective but socially acceptable management strategies.

This programme gives you the opportunity to grow your impact in either plant or vertebrate pest management. You’ll gain advanced in-depth knowledge and practical training that focuses on predator eradication and biosecurity. You’ll graduate with a specialist focus, along with a network of potential employers (through the research placement course) gained during your study.

How you’ll grow

• Seed the knowledge of how to design and implement environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable management programmes in response to specific pest problems
• Learn how to monitor the outcomes of pest management strategies, measuring impacts and pinpointing any developing physiological and behavioural resistance to control tools
• Grow your advanced understanding of existing pest control solutions along with their accepted limitations
• Gain in-dept understanding of adaptive management, and learn how to effectively share new research findings so they influence current practice
• Work alongside industry or gain a valuable placement in a relevant organisation.

Career opportunities

As a graduate of Lincoln University’s Master of Pest Management, you’ll be well positioned for a role in the primary production sector, with a government organisation involved with pest control and border safety, or as an agricultural consultant advising on pest control and plant protection.

Programme Structure

Master of Pest Management - Plant Pest Management

Compulsory courses

• ECOL 608 - Research Methods in Ecology
• ERST 606 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems A
• PLPT 611 - Integrated Plant Protection

Choose a minimum of one of the following courses:

• ECOL 631 - Animal Behaviour
• PLPT 613 - Plant Pathology
• PLSC 611A - Plant and Crop Physiology

Choose a minimum of two of the following courses:

• ECOL 609 - Conservation Biology
• ENTO 612 - Advanced Entomology
• ERST 607 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems B
• PLSC 611B - Plant and Crop Physiology

Master of Pest Management - Vertebrate Pest Management

Compulsory courses

• ECOL 608 - Research Methods in Ecology
• ERST 606 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems A
• ECOL 612 - Wildlife Management

Choose a minimum of one of the following courses:

• ECOL 631 - Animal Behaviour
• PLPT 613 - Plant Pathology
• PLSC 611A - Plant and Crop Physiology

Choose a minimum of two of the following courses:

• ECOL 609 - Conservation Biology
• ENTO 612 - Advanced Entomology
• ERST 607 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems B
• PLPT 611 - Integrated Plant Protection