Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
Mast-EER: a Masters by Research to advance ecosystem resilience
Engineering ecosystem resilience needs people as much as programmes: scientists who can combine ecology and evolution with genomics, engineering, and data science – and who are comfortable working at the edge of what is currently possible.
- Funding
- £500,000
- Location
- University of Exeter, Cornwall (Penryn Campus)
- Cohort size
- 20 students
- Started
- September 2026
- Applications
- Closed (deadline was 31 July 2026)
Mast-EER aims to develop a cohort of 20 interdisciplinary ecological scientists who are comfortable working at the edge of what is currently possible.
The cohort trains within the wider Engineering Ecosystem Resilience community – alongside the Accelerated Adaptation programme, the opportunity seeds, and the Echo Labs FRO.
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.