Our PhD students
Careers and graduate destinations
We have a wide range of links with organisations, including international trade unions (e.g. ITWF), community organisations (e.g. London Citizens), museums and cultural institutions (e.g. the Geffreye Museum), and regional, national and international governmental and inter-governmental agencies (e.g. OECD, World Bank and the NHS).
Our links with conservation and resource management organisations include the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology, Dorset and Wallingford, Countryside Council for Wales, Environment Agency, HR Wallingford Ltd, and Natural England. Taking advantage of these connections, our PhD students have followed a range of careers in sectors across the globe.
Some of our former PhD students are following academic careers as Lecturers or Research Fellows, while other former students have utilised their research skills outside academia in the business sector, and at organisations such as, Dutch Geological Survey, the Department for International Development and the Migrants Rights Network, among many others.
Our postgraduate researchers also benefit from the services and support offered by the Queen Mary Careers and Enterprise Centre.
Advice for future PhD students
Hear what our PhD students have to say about making an application.
Projects
Feminist Research Workshop
The Department of Geography and Environmental Science’s Feminist Research Workshop is a collective, horizontal, and interdisciplinary space where PhD students and early-career researchers meet monthly to discuss and explore feminist thought, research methodologies, art, and politics.
Coming from different subdisciplines and researching on different topics, we come together to discover how feminist thought and praxis allow us to approach problems differently, opening new paths for reflection, research, and social change. In the last two years, we have organised reading groups, film screenings, seminars with external speakers, and methods workshops.
Current PhD students
For a list of our current PhD students, click here.
Queen Mary is a great place to work or study, primarily because of its locality, its commitment to applied research and its diverse student population. As one of the most diverse universities in Europe, if not the world, I think that this is the best sort of learning environment you can be in— Suzy Solley, PhD Human Geography