Human Geography

From investigating spaces of authority, activism and protest, to examining embodied politics and practices of access, property rights and citizenship, our Human Geography staff and PhD students at theUniversity of Brighton are leading research at the intersections of society, space and environment.

Much of our work takes a critical approach to grounded and material realities and seeks to define and address a range of transformative agendas. Research by human geography-focused staff and PhD students in our Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics and our Society, Space and Environment Research and Enterprise Group is being used, for example, to examine sexual and gendered inequalities and liveabilities, biopolitics and migration, affect theory, deindustrialisation, emergent theorisations of the commons in relation to new social movements, and political ecologies of enclosure and resource extractivism across a range of geographical contexts.

Key facts

As a Human Geography PhD student at University of Brighton , you will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising two or three members of expert academic staff. Depending on your research specialism, you may also have an additional supervisor from the , or another research institution or external partner.

• desk space and access to a desktop PC, usually in one of the postgraduate offices on the sixth floor of the award-winning Cockcroft Building. You will additionally benefit from access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries.

• The Brighton Doctoral College, which offers a training programme for postgraduate researchers, covering research methods and transferable (including employability) skills. Attendance at appropriate modules within this programme is encouraged, as is contribution to the School’s fortnightly seminar series and research centre/group activities. Academic and technical staff also provide more subject-specific training.

Areas of specialism include:

• Biopower, borders and security

• Cultural and political geography

• Economic anthropology and economic geography

• Embodiment, affect, performance and process

• Environmental futures and sustainability

• Geographies of development

• Geographies of finance

• Geographies of gender, sexes and sexualities

• Geographies of racism

• Geographies of sport and leisure

• Methods in human geography

• Political ecology

• Power and place

• Spaces, power and justice