Delivered at our Lackham campus, our university-level animal management courses are designed to help you secure the knowledge and skills needed to pursue a career within the animal care industries.
Our courses offer the opportunity to develop professional standards alongside underpinning knowledge as well as covering a wide scope of topics that will support a range of careers within the industry.
If you are interested in career opportunities in areas such as Animal Health, Welfare Officers, Rehoming and Rescue Centres, Technicians, Zookeepers and more, then our courses could offer the ideal pathway towards your desired vocation.
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Lauren is the Programme Lead for the College's HNC and HND Animal Management (Behaviour and Welfare) course. She joined WCUC in 2021 as a lecturer for the same course and has taught a range of subject areas at different levels, including Level 2 Behaviour, Level 3: Zoological Collections, Exotic Health and Husbandry, HE: Health and Welfare and Anthropology and more. Lauren is also specialised in conservation, surveying and ecology.
Lauren graduated from Wolverhampton University with a BSc degree in Animal Behaviour and Wildlife Conservation and a Master of Science in Wildlife Conservation. Lauren has worked in a variety of places like Paradise Park and Jungle Barn and has travelled around the world completing wildlife research for dissertation projects. Lauren completed these projects in Belize (Jaguars) and South Africa (Leopards) on big cats using camera traps to understand population sizes.
Lauren has also gained experience in wildlife conservation both in the UK and Europe, for example, the red kite release program in Aberystwyth (Wales), the Walldrab breeding program in Austria and tracking bears, wolves and Links in Slovakia. Lauren is passionate about wildlife conservation and using these measures to protect species within their natural habitat. Lauren led an overseas trip to Peru to complete wildlife surveying projects in the Amazon rainforest, with the Level 3 Animal Management course in June 2024.
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Our facilities
Animal Resource Centre
Our new Animal Resource Centre features zoo-standard enclosures for a wide range of animals, creating a real industry environment for practical learning.
