PhD in Environmental Geography

The PhD is a higher degree awarded for a thesis presenting original research that makes a publishable contribution to knowledge or understanding. A student will be working on their own research project, working closely with their academic supervisor and with the support of other postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and staff in their research group.

Research in this programme is focussed on:

• Tropical ecosystem response to environmental change
• Reconstructing Quaternary environments and sea levels
• Managing consequences of climate change
• Glaciology and characterising glacial terrain
• Ecosystem modelling
• Soil systems and biogeochemical cycles
• Environmental change and sustainable societies

The PhD requires a dissertation of up to 80,000 words, to be submitted by full-time students after a period of three years' study (or six years for part-time students), with a further maximum of one year allowable for writing up.