Postgraduate research opportunities

Postgraduate 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