Analyse data with R
Gain insights from wildlife conservation data
analysis
beginner
R
- Part-time online course, 4 weeks from 21 July 2025
- Answer conservation questions with data
- Build your coding skills and confidence
- Suitable for complete beginners, or to refresh your knowledge
We know that developing technical skills in conservation, and helping others to build and apply their technical capacity can be a challenge. This may be because:
- ❔ You lack expertise in key skills needed in your job or research
- 🔩 It’s hard to find learning opportunities that focus on building practical knowledge
- 📆 Your schedule is packed, or you have unreliable internet or electricity 🔌
- 🙊 You face language barriers, or study materials aren’t suited to your knowledge levels 😩
- 😟 You experience anxiety and loneliness when studying or working solo
We’re here to help!
About the course
Our part-time online course Analyse data with R takes you step-by-step through statistical analysis in R, from importing data to understanding and illustrating your findings
Our course is ideal for conservation practitioners, students and trainers who would like to build and strengthen their data analysis and presentation skills
You’ll find this course useful if you need to:
- Analyse data from your field sites
- Refresh your knowledge of how to code in R
- Make evidence-based decisions on conservation action
- Teach coding or data analysis to your field staff or students
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Choose the appropriate statistical test for your data and conservation question
- Import your data into R and do simple processing with tidyverse tools
- Run standard parametric tests such as ANOVA and regression, within a General Linear Model (GLM) framework
- Run non-parametric tests such as Kruskal-Wallis
- Interpret the statistical output to answer your question
- Generate plots and tables to illustrate your results
VerdantLearn’s courses exist because I want to make it easy for conservationists all over the world to use powerful coding tools to understand and communicate their conservation research and action
Dr Lucy Tallents, Founder and Director of VerdantLearn
Register for the course
Visit the Subscriptions page of VerdantLearn’s community to register:
Course dates
This four-week tutored course starts on Mon 21 July 2025 and ends on Fri 15 August 2025
Study time is 4-6 hours each week. The timing is completely flexible - you can participate whenever it suits you during the week
Course fee and discounts
The fee for this course is 144 GBP
This includes:
- Access to all the learning materials
- Access to a private discussion area on our learning community
- A 30 minute one-to-one session with your tutur, for expert advice tailored to your needs
We offer generous discounts (up to 90% off!) to those who can’t afford the standard course fee:
- Conservationists from low- or middle-income countries1
- Students and currently unwaged
Everyone gets access to the same learning activities and support. If you or your organisation can afford it, paying the higher fee enables VerdantLearn to keep offering courses at affordable prices for everyone. This supports the efforts of conservationists globally, and increases the diversity of learners on our courses, so you benefit too!
To find out what discount you’re eligible for, and gain a coupon code, please complete the form on our discount enquiries page:
The best thing was to be able to see other people’s work and have discussions with them. It is motivating to see other people’s research work!
I did learn a lot from this short course. It is nice to run this course at my own pace
Student on GIS for wildlife conservation beginner course
Any questions?
Visit our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact us
So, are you eager to move from conservation data to insights…?
Footnotes
World Bank list of countries by income level↩︎