Research

Our staff and PhD students work at the cutting edge in a number of research fields, including environmental change, policing, flooding and health. Geography staff lead the University's Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (a partnership between the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute) and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, a collaboration between 13 Scottish universities. Geography staff also make a significant contribution to the University's UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, the Social Dimensions of Health Institute and the SFC/ESRC funded Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN).

Geography at Dundee achieved an excellent result in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Virtually all staff contribute research judged to be of international excellence with much work considered to be world class. With 60% of research activity rated as internationally outstanding or excellent (RAE 3* and 4*), Geography was ranked first equal in Scotland with St Andrews in the 2008 RAE. The result reflects research strengths across the discipline.

Research groups

• Space and Society Research Group (SSRG)
• Environmental Systems Research Group (ESRG)

Research centres

• Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)
• Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR)
• UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science
• Social Dimensions of Health Institute
• Centre for Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring (CRSEM)

Staff and research students

Find out more about our Staff research interests and what our Postgraduate students are doing:

• Staff
• Postgraduate Research Students