Research environment and facilities
We offer a thriving and supportive research environment for doctoral students organised around our research themes, events and facilities.
What a Department you’ve got! I had wonderful interactions with so many people, and got terrific, inspiring and incredibly useful feedback on my work in both the research frameworks and more formal sessions, as well as in all the various informal gatherings. I so appreciated ... your colleagues’ generosity intellectually— Professor Cindi Katz, City University of New York
Research environment
We offer a thriving and supportive research environment organised around our research themes: Culture, Space and Power; Climate and Earth Surface Science; Just Worlds; Nature and Society.
As members of one or more of these themes, academic staff and postgraduate researchers host regular research events including weekly Lunchtime Research Seminars, the David M. Smith Annual Lecture, and our Research Frameworks which allow more informal engagement with visiting scholars.
Regular research activities are also hosted by our interdisciplinary research centres:
- City Centre: researching city lives and connections
- Centre for Studies of Home
- Centre for the Study of Migration
- Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development
- Centre on Labour and Global Production
Research facilities
Postgraduate students in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science have desk and computing space in dedicated postgraduate offices with access to specialist equipment, software and technical support; as well as access to the staff and postgraduate common room and kitchen within the Geography Building. The School has invested considerably in our laboratory facilities, which are amongst the best of any Schools of Geography in the UK. In addition to the Department of Geography and Environmental Science's Laboratory and Field Suite, physical geographers and environmental scientists also have access to the laboratories located in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences.