Geography, Environment and Development Studies (MPhil / PhD)

Our students benefit not only from the advisory insight of specialist academics within the Department, but also from a wider culture of support and advice from staff and other research students. We see our research students as a central part of our community, who play a key role in the vitality of the wider research process. Those completing our research degrees in the past have often moved on into highly skilled occupations in both the commercial and academic worlds.

Research students in the Department of Geography are able to participate in subject-specific doctoral seminars and can attend relevant modules on any of the MSc degrees offered within the Department or social sciences as part of their research training. Find out more about the training and support you will get as a research student in our Department.

Students also have the opportunity to participate in guest lectures, films and workshops offered both within the Department and in wider groupings such as the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, the Institute of Voluntary Action Research, and the London International Development Centre. We offer financial assistance for conference attendance where appropriate.

Our research computing laboratory has powerful geographical information system (GIS) software, provides networked PCs and is used for a range of system GIS applications and remote sensing/image processing functions.