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Research in Urban Studies
Urban Studies at Glasgow is widely recognised as a world-leading centre for innovative, interdisciplinary urban research with significant impact. We aim to contribute to debates at the highest level around the development and management of neighbourhoods, cities and regions. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 95% of our outputs had international standing, including 15% rated world-leading.
Postgraduate Research
We have a thriving PhD community that is well integrated with the research culture of the subject area. Find out more about our current postgraduate research students here.
We provide a supportive environment to our students in a number of ways, including:
- A popular seminar series, through which a diverse set of internationally recognised speakers present their current research and/or policy thinking;
- A workshop series, through which staff and students present early thinking about research proposals and papers in a supportive and critical environment;
- An annual away-day, planned by students in conjunction with the Doctoral Convenor to explore issues related to PhD completion and developing skills for future employment;
- Individual postgraduate review panels at which the Doctoral Convenor and individual supervisors can meet to discuss progress with each student;
- CV development, through opportunities to tutor at Undergraduate Level, teach at Undergraduate and Postgraduate Level and to actively participate in research projects.
Each full time student is entitled to:
- Dedicated office space
- A computer and full IT support
- Telephone and photocopying facilities
- Access to unrivalled library facilities.
Supervision for PhDs
We provide supervision in all of the areas in which we work (across urban research, real estate and planning and public policy). Further details about staff expertise can be found at Urban Studies research at Glasgow. We are active supporters of interdisciplinary research and most staff are involved in providing supervision to students alongside colleagues from other disciplines.
Funding Opportunities
We support students studying both full-time and part-time and our current students are funded through diverse sources including the ESRC, Adam Smith Research Foundation, the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, the Steve Tiesdell Student Endowment Fund, own employers and self-funding. Many of our international students bring governmental sponsorships.
Research Groups
- Housing, Real Estate and Urban Economics Research Group
- Neighbourhoods Research Group
- Qualitative Research Network
Research Projects
- Community Resilience to Extreme Weather
- Evaluation of Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives Workplace, Services and Award Programme
- Food Choice and Changes in Body Weight and Shape in those Attempting Smoking Cessation
- GoWell: Glasgow Community Health and Wellbeing Research and Learning Programme
- Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor
- Neighbourhood context: impact on attitudes to inequality and redistribution
- Neighbourhood dynamics and spatial segregation
- Planning systems and Indigenous customary rights
- Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2011
- Serving Deprived Communities in a Recession
- Unpacking the conception of ‘legacy’ with respect to planning for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
- Completed projects