48 monthsProgramme duration
21,900 GBPTuition Fee/year
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Geography
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The excellence of Bristol's social science research was confirmed by the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences ranked first for Geography in the UK Research Excellence Framework for the fifth REF cycle in a row.
We have a large and vibrant postgraduate community, focusing both on PhDs by research and on taught programmes. Our postgraduate community is international and interdisciplinary and offers an exceptional academic environment for postgraduate research.
Research opportunities span a variety of subjects at the leading edge of geographical research. Our research groups span a range of human geographical research: Historical and Cultural Geography; States, Economies and Societies; Quantitative Spatial Science; Political Ecologies. Within these four groups, postgraduate research includes health and housing inequalities to embodied posthuman geographies, to urban sustainability futures, to the environmental humanities, to improving techniques of quantitative modelling and machine learning, to geopolitics, decolonial geographies, and political ecology.
There is also a range of exciting possibilities for interdisciplinary research that cross and connect research groups and departments. Candidates typically have two supervisors based in the school, but supervision is possible across schools and faculties.
There is an active postgraduate research community whose representatives not only meet formally with staff representatives on issues of mutual interest, but who arrange social and other support for the PGR cohort.
There is dedicated PGR space in the Fry Building, next to Geographical Sciences.
Alternatively, you may be interested in our PhD in Geographical Sciences (Physical Geography).
Programme overview
Main Subject
Geography
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
The excellence of Bristol's social science research was confirmed by the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences ranked first for Geography in the UK Research Excellence Framework for the fifth REF cycle in a row.
We have a large and vibrant postgraduate community, focusing both on PhDs by research and on taught programmes. Our postgraduate community is international and interdisciplinary and offers an exceptional academic environment for postgraduate research.
Research opportunities span a variety of subjects at the leading edge of geographical research. Our research groups span a range of human geographical research: Historical and Cultural Geography; States, Economies and Societies; Quantitative Spatial Science; Political Ecologies. Within these four groups, postgraduate research includes health and housing inequalities to embodied posthuman geographies, to urban sustainability futures, to the environmental humanities, to improving techniques of quantitative modelling and machine learning, to geopolitics, decolonial geographies, and political ecology.
There is also a range of exciting possibilities for interdisciplinary research that cross and connect research groups and departments. Candidates typically have two supervisors based in the school, but supervision is possible across schools and faculties.
There is an active postgraduate research community whose representatives not only meet formally with staff representatives on issues of mutual interest, but who arrange social and other support for the PGR cohort.
There is dedicated PGR space in the Fry Building, next to Geographical Sciences.
Alternatively, you may be interested in our PhD in Geographical Sciences (Physical Geography).
Admission Requirements
The school welcomes applicants with an interest in utilising ESRC and UKRI secondary datasets in their research projects.
The School of Geographical Sciences, like many other schools and departments across the University, is committed to efforts to decolonise our curricula and transform our research and teaching as part of these efforts. We especially welcome applicants interested in supporting this work, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and geographies to apply.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our profile level D.
- Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
- Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance
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