Geography Queen Mary University of London

Overview

Research students of Geography at Queen Mary University of London  work under the close supervision of members of academic staff. We welcome applications from those wishing to study full or part-time.

Key facts

The Department is part of the London Social Science ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (joint between Queen Mary/Goldsmiths), the London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership, the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme on 'Science for Management of Rivers and their Tidal Systems’, and also regularly receives AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards.Prospective PhD students are encouraged to consider the wide variety of academic research areas covered by the Department of Geography and Environmental Science. Our research strengths include:

• migration studies

• geographies of development

• global health (linked with Blizard Institute)

• biosciences and health security

• labour and global production (linked with Business and Management)

• studies of the home (collaboration with the Geffrye Museum of the Home)

• urban geography

• urban cultural politics

• historical geography

• geographies of knowlege and practice

• environmental science (including specialisms in freshwater biogeochemical processes, fluvial processes, aquatic restoration projects and geoarchives)