Human Geography and Environmental Sciences PhD 36 months PHD Program By The University of Edinburgh. |Top Universities
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Program Duration

36 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

GeographyMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Geography

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme draws on the expertise of the Research Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment (RIGLE) at the University of Edinburgh.

It is a vibrant intellectual home for more than 100 researchers working across the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Our research students are enrolled on PhDs, 3+1 degrees (a Masters degree followed by a PhD), or for MSc by Research degrees.

Research areas

We work with a broad range of geographic themes and approaches and have particular research strengths in:

  • critical and qualitative human geography
  • quantitative and statistical geography and GIS
  • geohumanities and environmental humanities
  • cultural, development, environmental and urban studies
We study:

  • critical and popular geopolitics
  • the cultural politics of ‘race’, gender and sexuality
  • energy futures and extractivism
  • food security and sovereignty
  • health inequalities
  • hazards and disasters
  • human-animal relationships
  • media and mobilities
  • political activism and protest
  • sustainable development and environmental resource management
  • urban change and gentrification
Much of our research applies and advances decolonial, feminist, political economy, postcolonial and poststructuralist theoretical debates and is focused not just on explaining the world in which we live but changing it for the better.

Program overview

Main Subject

Geography

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme draws on the expertise of the Research Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment (RIGLE) at the University of Edinburgh.

It is a vibrant intellectual home for more than 100 researchers working across the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Our research students are enrolled on PhDs, 3+1 degrees (a Masters degree followed by a PhD), or for MSc by Research degrees.

Research areas

We work with a broad range of geographic themes and approaches and have particular research strengths in:

  • critical and qualitative human geography
  • quantitative and statistical geography and GIS
  • geohumanities and environmental humanities
  • cultural, development, environmental and urban studies
We study:

  • critical and popular geopolitics
  • the cultural politics of ‘race’, gender and sexuality
  • energy futures and extractivism
  • food security and sovereignty
  • health inequalities
  • hazards and disasters
  • human-animal relationships
  • media and mobilities
  • political activism and protest
  • sustainable development and environmental resource management
  • urban change and gentrification
Much of our research applies and advances decolonial, feminist, political economy, postcolonial and poststructuralist theoretical debates and is focused not just on explaining the world in which we live but changing it for the better.

Admission Requirements

3 Years
Jan
Sep

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