Geographical & Earth Sciences

Postgraduate research opportunities

• Environmental Sciences [PhD/MSc (Research)/MPhil (Research)]
• Geology [PhD/MSc (Research)/MPhil (Research)]
• Human Geography [PhD/MPhil/MSc (Research)]

Postgraduate research

97% of the research in our School of Geographical & Earth Sciences has been evaluated as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in the latest Research Excellence Framework [2021].

We offer the following research study options: PhD, MPhil, MSc(Res). Our research areas include:

• Creative geohumanities
• Deep Earth and shallow crustal processes
• Environmental biogeochemistry
• Environmental change and sustainability
• Evolution of Earth’s surface
• Exploring vital geographies
• Geospatial technologies, GIS and remote sensing
• Planetary evolution and habitability
• Spatial politics and practices
• Stressed environments and communities
• Subaltern globalisations