Welcome to Geography

We offer exciting undergraduate degrees in Geography and Environmental Science, including fieldtrips to California, New York, the Scottish Highlands and Spain. Surveys have shown our graduates are extremely successful in obtaining high-level employment, particularly in social and spatial research, geographical systems applications, environmental management, teaching and local government.

A range of postgraduate courses are available in:

• Applied Population and Welfare Geography
• Environmental Management
• Remote Sensing
• Social Research Methods
• Sustainable Catchment Management

We also have at any one time over a dozen research students working across the discipline.

We have 19 lecturing staff in Geography, plus further research fellows and research assistants, technicians and secretaries. Our size allows us to offer a wide range of option courses on the undergraduate degrees, while remaining sufficiently compact to provide a friendly and informal learning environment. We received 'excellent' gradings in all four review areas in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA).

Our staff and PhD students work at the cutting edge in a number of research fields, including water and flood management and population geography. Geography staff make a significant contribution to the University's UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, and the leading international journal Population, Space and Place is edited here.

Geography also hosts the newly formed Scottish Institute for Policing Research, a collaboration between 13 Scottish universities . It undertakes high quality, independent research of relevance to policing in Scotland and helps facilitate the effective use of research by the police.

The Centre for Applied Population Research offers leading-edge research on many demographic topics include international student mobility, migration and social mobility, and the changing nature of East and Central European migration to the UK.