Interested in doing your BSc / MSc Thesis or internship at the Behavioural Ecology group?
We always welcome new students to join our research!
If you have a passion for studying wild animals in their natural environment, please have a look at the various research topics within our group, contact our staff directly or browse here through a selection of our thesis topics.
Your thesis can both be done in the Netherlands or abroad!
With the more relaxed new international travel policy, we specifically look for MSc students for our running larger international field projects in
- Trinidad (guppies, contact Hannah de Waele; CLOSED),
- Eswatini (Mousebirds, Bulbuls and other; contact Sjouke Kingma),
- Australia (Zebra finches; Marc Naguib),
- Brasil (Lined Seedeaters; Filipe Cunha),
- Egypt (Waterbirds; Marc Naguib),
- Spain (Black wheatears; contact Gretchen Wagner).
We are also specifically looking for BSc and MSc students for our various field projects in Wageningen:
- students interested in working on social behaviour with Magpies (contact Miriam Kuspiel).
Doing a BSc thesis
Before you can start with your BSc thesis you should make sure you have met the admission requirements, found a BSc thesis subject, filled in the BSc thesis contract with your thesis supervisor and handed in the contract at the biology office.
Find here all the information needed to successfully start and complete your thesis.
Doing a MSc thesis
Students from MSc Animal Sciences, MSc Biology and MSc Forest and Nature Conservation can do their MSc thesis with us if they meet the requirements. Students from other MSc programs can do a thesis with us if this has been pre-approved by their study advisor/examination board.
Several grant possibilities and travel fundings are available for Dutch and international students to start and conduct your thesis abroad or in the Netherlands. See the following websites for more information:
http://www.beursopener.nl/content/index.asp (unfortunately in Dutch only)
https://www.wur.nl/en/Education-Programmes/master/Study-grants.htm
https://www.wur.nl/en/Education-Programmes/Current-Students/Trvel-Funding.htm
https://www.fonaconservation.nl/en/home-en-gb-1
https://www.wur.nl/en/Education-Programmes/Study-Abroad-and-Exchange-Students.htm
For general information about our thesis topics and doing your internship with us, please contact Bonne Beerda.