Subject Areas

The School of the Environment is an integrated cross-disciplinary School comprising Architecture, Geography with Environmental Science and Town & Regional Planning.

Environmental Science is itself an interdisciplinary activity within the School, focussed on the provision of high quality undergraduate programmes. Led by research-active staff from across all its constituent activities, it integrates the teaching and study of physical, chemical, biological and synthetic sciences across all of Earth's environments.

Geographers specialize in applied aspects of environmental change, welfare, health, mobility and identity, from local to global scales. Their ability to integrate knowledge provides a framework for relating insights and skills from other fields to applied problems e.g., climate change, flooding, food scarcity. They advise and practise in areas such as education and training, applied research (Scottish Government and NGOs), in the commercial world, including consultancy, in the public sector, charitable organisations, the planning professions and in resource management.

Planning is an exciting and creative professional discipline that encompasses a diverse range of subjects, from building design to sustainable development, urban regeneration, community engagement, local economic development and much more. We deliver a number of vocational programmes, at both undergraduate and post graduate levels, in planning and related fields. Our graduates have great success in finding jobs not only within the public sector, in central and local government and other statutory agencies, but also with private sector environmental consultancies, regeneration companies, house builders, supermarkets and utility companies.