The University of Georgia is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for Fall 2012 for our Integrative Conservation (ICON) doctoral program. As global environmental change proceeds at an unprecedented pace, the practice of conservation is adapting to a complex set of challenges. Recognizing that responding effectively to these challenges requires both disciplinary expertise and well-developed tools to work across disciplines, the University of Georgias ICON Ph.D. program is designed to meet that need by ensuring that students gain disciplinary depth while also learning to collaborate across fields of practice by engaging faculty from the natural and social sciences to train students in an integrative and holistic way.
At the same time, this program strives to move beyond the paradigm of interdisciplinarity by reaching outside of academia to bring together academics and practitioners. Through internships, collaborative research, and a practitioner-in-residence program, students will interact with conservationists as partners and colleagues. These experiences, along with training modules lead by communications experts, will ensure that students learn to communicate effectively and strategically with those from other backgrounds and disciplines as well as with lay audiences. Funded assistantships are available to outstanding students. Currently the ICON PhD program is open to students applying to one of four "home departments" including the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, the Odum School of Ecology, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Geography. For more information, please contact Meredith Welch-Devine, [email protected], at the Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR) at the University of Georgia or see the CICR website: www.cicr.uga.edu. Please note that prospective students apply to the program from a home department, and departmental application deadlines vary.
