Highlights

Unlock Your Conservation Leadership Potential with Our Professional Placement

22 May 2024

The Masters in Conservation Leadership programme at the University of Cambridge offers a unique opportunity to put your skills into practice with our Professional Placement. From May to August, current cohort students will work alongside experienced professionals at a leading conservation organisation, tackling a carefully...

Recording, Links, and Slides from 'Notes from the Field' Online Talk by Rosalind Helfand

14 May 2024

We are pleased to share the recording , links, and slides from our first 'Notes from the Field' online talk, given by Rosalind Helfand (cohort 2018-19) and chaired by Pamela Abbott. The talk, titled "UN Women at the Intersection of Gender Equality and the Environment: Lessons in Leading and Convening," provided valuable...

Conservation Leadership Lecture Series Concludes with Professor Bhaskar Vira

14 May 2024

The Conservation Leadership Lecture (CLL) series, an integral part of the Conservation Leadership Master's programme at the University of Cambridge, concluded its final session for the current cohort last evening. The CLL series aims to complement classroom sessions by providing students with practical and personal...

MPhil Conservation Leadership Student Contributes to Discovery of New Tulip Species in Kyrgyzstan

29 April 2024

Ormon Sultangaziev, a current student in the MPhil in Conservation Leadership programme has made a significant contribution to the discovery of a new tulip species in his home country of Kyrgyzstan. The species, formally described as Tulipa toktogulica , was found by the team of researchers from the Cambridge University...

Announcement of the SCLA Fund projects 2023-24

29 February 2024

From grassroots pathway to biodiversity recovery; to Promoting pluricultural and intersectional Conservation Leadership in Latin America; and Guardians & Ambassadors: community-based capacity building for human-elephant co-existence in Zimbabwe, three Sansom Conservation Leadership Alumni (SCLA) Fund projects have been...

Student-led conservation collaboration event with the University of Oxford

31 August 2023

Introducing CoCo 1.0 On the 29 and 30 of June 2023, conservation students from four different graduate programs in Oxford and Cambridge gathered for the first Cambridge-Oxford Conservation Collaboration symposium (CoCo 1.0). A new initiative pioneered by the Masters in Conservation Leadership students at the University of...

Women in Leadership

7 March 2023

Celebrating the achievements of our alumni on International Women’s Day The University of Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership alumni network ( UCCLAN ) comprises 220 individuals from 89 countries. The Masters programme equips its graduates with the tools needed to be the next generation of conservation leaders...

Announcement of the SCLA Fund projects 2022-23

17 January 2023

From working with donors to enhance conservation impact; to using local ecological knowledge in Sudan to maximise conservation values; and using art for conservation in education in Kenya, three Sansom Conservation Leadership Alumni (SCLA) Fund projects have been announced for the 2022-23 round. The SCLA Fund has been...

COP15: UN and Cambridge sign agreement to bolster conservation

12 December 2022

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat and the University of Cambridge signed a Memorandum of Understanding on day two of COP15, which recognises that the CCI Masters in Conservation Leadership course hosted by the Department of Geography plays a crucial role in conservation capacity building. The agreement...

Alumni stories #01: Rosalind Helfand

31 March 2022

Rosalind Helfand, from the 2018-19 cohort, is based in Los Angeles, California. Since graduating Rosalind founded PAJE Consulting for environmental and social policy issues, where she is working with non-profits and government at the local, state, and global levels on projects like engaging the state of California with the...