Ben Oakes
Founder and owner of the Isle of Skye Seaweed Company and 2025 Winner of the SRUC Alumni Entrepreneur Network Innovation Award.
BSc Sustainable Environmental Management
Campus: SRUC - Edinburgh
Class of 2013
“My degree gave me a lot of confidence when it came to writing business plans and submitting grant applications. Also figuring out how I was going to make my products and the scientific methodology behind it all which has helped me get to where I am today.”
Ben was the 2025 Winner of the SRUC Alumni Entrepreneur Network Award for Innovation. Click below to learn more.
Related courses:
Countryside Management
This course offers the skills you need for a career in countryside services, for example estate maintenance, environmental projects or working with wildlife organisations.
- NC
Environmental Management
This course gives you a grounding in the theory and practice of environmental management, and a sound understanding of managing and minimising environmental impacts.
- BSc (Hons)
- HNC
- HND
Environmental Protection and Management
This course teaches how to devise and implement strategies that protect and conserve environments facing a wide range of threats.
- MSc
Ecological Surveying
The PDA in Ecological Surveying is designed to provide you with the competencies required in order to enter the field of ecological surveying.
- PDA
Ecological Economics
This course teaches how to make sustainability and environmental management work through the application of economic principles.
- MSc
Agriculture, Rural and Environmental Studies
A doctoral programme designed for future leaders in agriculture, animal, rural and environmental science. This interdisciplinary programme is rooted in our internationally recognised research, offering opportunities to contribute to critical global challenges such as food and nutrition security, one health, climate change, and efficient resource usage. The programme is validated by the University of Edinburgh.
- PhD
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