Geography
PhD
In London
Description
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Type
PhD
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Location
London
Overview
Research income: £2.28m (2007-8)
Current number of academic staff: 37
Current number of research students: Approximately 120
Current number of postdoctoral: 17
Recent publications:
The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Development of a Modelling Methodology for the Investigation of Riparian Hydrological Processes
Wind Fields & Turbulence Statistics in an Urban Street Canyon
Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability & Design
Measuring Vulnerability to Urban Natural Disaster Risk
Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society & Nature
Joint PhDs available: Exciting opportunities to gain a joint PhD with the National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University or Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
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Subjects
- Risk
- Staff
- Disability
- International
- University
- Joint
- IT risk
Course programme
The Department of Geography has a vibrant community of scholars - most are members of one of five research groups: Urban Futures; Spatial Politics; Environmental Dynamics; Risk and Society;Contested Development. Staff research also ranges well beyond those groups and involves both individual scholarship and colleagues in other institutions as well as the department.
These groups operate through staff-funded research and PhD student collaboration on research projects. The research themes provide the central focus of our international reputation centre on: cultural, political and social change in cities; urban governance and public policy in cities; urban sustainability; environment and development in low-income locations; monitoring and modelling of terrestrial environmental processes and investigations of the politics of environmental policy. In addition, we have thematic research specialisms in historical geography, geographies of disability, architecture and the built environment, rural development, and remote sensing of the environment.
Joint PhD programme
Exciting opportunities are now available to undertake a joint PhD programme with Hong Kong University or, for topics specifically relating to comparative urbanism, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) or the National University of Singapore, bringing together expertise in urban (social and/or economic) geography, physical geography, political geography, political ecology, risks and hazards.
Geography