Geographical Sciences (Human Geography)

The Geographical Sciences (Human Geography) PhD programme from University of Bristol offers an exceptional academic environment for postgraduate research. We
also have a 100% completion rate over the past five years for
UKRI-funded PhD students.

Throughout the Geographical Sciences (Human Geography) Geographical Sciences (Human Geography) PhD programme from University of Bristol University of Bristol research opportunities span a variety of subjects at the leading edge of geographical research. 

Key facts:

Our research groups span a range of human geographical research.

Within these four groups, postgraduate research covers the gamut, from 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.

Career opportunities:

Academic research and teaching, NGO research, education, civil service research and administration, policy analysis and development, industry, market research, consultancy, journalism, writing and communications, advocacy and activism, community development, and project management.

Courses include:

• History and Culture Research Group

• Geographies of Political Economy Research

• States, Economies and Societies Research

• Quantitative Spatial Science Research