PhD Urban Studies

Urban Studies at Glasgow is widely recognised as a world-leading centre for innovative, interdisciplinary urban research with high international impact.

OVERVIEW

We are multi-disciplinary in research approach and a PhD in Urban Studies will allow you to develop excellent skills in research methods and theory as well as engaging with pressing real-world problems that affect cities. You will have the opportunity to be supervised by internationally acclaimed scholars. Our strengths include:

• Big data, GIS, transport modelling, urban analytics
• Educational inequalities and outcomes for young people
• Housing, planning, real estate, regeneration, urban design
• Public policy, welfare reform, health and health inequalities
• Smart/future cities, challenges facing cities in the developing world
• Systems of governance, communities and participation

If you study with us you will have the opportunity to join a large, stimulating community of PhD students and benefit from engagement with major funded research centres, long-term research projects and will be able to join our long-established research groups.

A PhD in Urban Studies can be taken as a 1+3 programme in conjunction with an ESRC-recognised MRes programme (MRes in Urban Research or MRes Public Policy Research).

Final assessment involves the submission of a thesis of between 70,000 and 100,000 words and an oral examination (viva voce).