“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Geography staff and PhD students work at the cutting edge in a number of research fields, including environmental change, policing, flooding, cold-climate geomorphology, health, volunteering and children and youth geography. We have a supportive and active research postgraduate community in bespoke office space within the Geography department.
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:
Research staff and postgraduate students operate within two research groups, the Space and Society Research Group (SSRG) and the Environmental Systems Research Group (ESRG). Both hold regular informal discussion meetings and research seminars.
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, and in the top 15 in the United Kingdom. The result reflects our research strengths across the discipline.
For more information about Research in Geography at Dundee, including details of our Research Groups, please visit the Geography research webpages.
You should have an honours degree at 2.1 or above, or a Masters degree in a relevant discipline.
English Language Requirement: IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in the written component and no less than 5.5 in any other component, if your first language is not English. Please check our Language Requirements page for details of equivalent grades from other test providers, and information about the University of Dundee English Language courses.
Our postgraduate research training is accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council 1 + 3 funding scheme. Prospective students in human geography can apply for a funded studentship from the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre.
Please visit our Fees & Funding webpages for general postgraduate research funding information.
Unless you are applying for a named, funded, project, it is advisable to discuss possible projects with potential supervisors before you apply to us - check the current staff research interests. With such applications, you must include an outline research proposal of your intended work, of no more than two sides of A4.
To apply for a research degree in Geography, use the online system UKPASS, via the link below. You may wish to visit our How to Apply webpage first for more information what you should submit as part of your application.
Apply here:
Candidates register initially for a higher degree which after one year will be confirmed as a PhD subject to satisfactory progress.
Martin Kirkbride, Research Postgraduate Co-ordinator
Telephone: +44 (0)1382 384 513
Email: m.p.kirkbride@dundee.ac.uk
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