Geography and Environment

Graduate school

Our postgraduate students are a highly valued part of our community, and are integral to the continued success of the academic unit and of the University as a whole.

We recognise the diverse needs of our postgraduates, and provide a focused approach to meeting those needs at every level.

Our Graduate School has a culture of research that seeks to define the direction of the discipline through undertaking leading-edge research and world-leading scholarship. We have a vibrant and eclectic community of over 100 graduates on both master's and doctoral training programmes.

Our mission is to recruit, inspire and to graduate some of the very best postgraduate students, both master's and doctoral, in geographical research. We do this through a wide ranging postgraduate programme, with research that covers the full range of the discipline and by recruiting students with backgrounds in the sciences (natural and social), humanities and engineering.

Our Graduate School is supported by a community of scholars, a resource framework that is comparable with other leading centre’s of geographical learning, and a wide range of funding sources for both UK, EU and overseas scholarships.

Key features

  • The Graduate School currently has around 50 full-time and part-time students from the UK and overseas funded by research councils and other sources.

  • The Graduate School captures all that’s good about research: a mixture of stimulating intellectual activity and enjoyable social interaction.

  • Our most recent postgraduate feedback (2007) recorded that 94 per cent of respondents would recommend Geography for doing research.

Professor John Dearing

Professor

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