Hi I'm Mike Benton I'm Professor of Paleontology at the University of
Bristol I founded the Masters in paleobiology back in 1996 and it started off
quite small but it's grown over since and now more than 350 students have
graduated typically each year there's something like 25 or 30 students
attending and you're joining a very large paleobiology group often rated as
the best in the world consisting of seven or eight professors plus another
50 or 60 researchers. One of the big advantages of coming to Bristol is that
we have seven members of staff with a diverse range of interests things like
verterbrate paleontology invertebrate paleontology paleobotany micro
paleontology and microbial evolution and we have the facilities on site to enable
you to study all those different topics we have a CT scanner we have a
tomography lab with ten high-end workstations with software installed
that will able you to do image analysis and biomechanical analysis we have wet
lab facilities for molecular paleo biology we also have all the
computational expertise that you would need to do things like macro-evolution
phylogenetics and phylogenomics our students join us from a wide range
of different backgrounds we have biologists geologists chemists
physicists and we'll provide you with a range of taught units that will all bring
you up to the same level so for example if you come from a geology background
we'll provide you with an option in evolutionary biology likewise if you
come from a biology background we'll provide you with a taught course in
geology that will bring you up to the level of research paleo biologists I'm
one of the current paleo biology master students I'm currently working on the
skull biomechanics of Mesozoic terrestrial crocodilians with Professor
Emily Wakefield coming to Bristol from Bangalore or anywhere in the world is a
big move you're coming to a new city and a new country the MSc here in Bristol is
the largest of its kind so you quickly make lots of friends we're all from
different places and have different backgrounds but we share the same
passion for fossils so you feel right at home
over the years were really pleased that so many of our students have been
successful at least 1/3 have gone on to do PhDs and a lot of the training we
offer of courses is directed towards that and we're really pleased to keep as
many students here to do PhDs in Bristol as we can but equally a large number go
to work in museums and education and other areas of commerce. My name is
Melissa and I am currently doing my PhD here at the University of Bristol two
years ago I did my master's degree and I was working on ungulate community
dynamics under the supervision of Professor Christine Jones upon
completion of my project I presented my results and an international paleontology
conference where I won an award for best poster a great strength
of the degree is that we focus a lot on methods we teach you all of the
computational and laboratory methods that you would need to be a successful
paleontologist but many of these methods are of great use in a much wider range
of employment. If I had to give you one reason why you should join the Bristol
paleobiology group it's because we've recently been voted the number one
paleontology research group in the world so if you join the MSc programme you can
be part of this diverse challenging research active and collegiate
environment. We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you here
in September.
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