| The award | How you will study | Study duration | Course start | Domestic course fees | International course fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Full-time | 36 months | find out | find out | find out |
| PhD | Part-time | 72 months | find out | find out | find out |
We offer PhD supervision across a wide range of human and physical geography topics. Our research engages with applied issues and public policy concerns, as well as more abstract cultural and theoretical issues.
We were recently ranked within the top 30 geography departments in the world (QS World University Rankings by subject). Almost all our research is world-leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework, 2014).
Our staff provide supervision in a range of specialisms. Our research focusses on four research clusters:
Physical geography
Our research strengths in physical geography include:
We carry out research through active collaboration with colleagues in Newcastle University and beyond. Our research takes us to a wide variety of environments across the globe, including:
Examples of recent research projects include:
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funds many of our research projects. We are also a member of the IAPETUS Doctoral Training Partnership.
Our Physical Geography PhD involves advanced study and research into a specific area. You will do fieldwork or lab-based research in a topics such as:
See a full list of PhD physical geography research topic
Economic geographies
Our research in economic geographies is theoretically-informed and politically-engaged. It covers the production, forms, experiences and impacts of uneven geographies of:
Our location in the north east is a European periphery. Our researchers in this theme explore 'ordinary', diverse and/or marginalised economies and subjectivities. They also scrutinise orthodox socio-economic models and practices in the following contexts:
Economic geographies contributes much of the work in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies.
See a full list of PhD economic geography research topics.
Power, space, politics
In power, space, politics our research focuses on the expression of political power across space and includes topics around:
We conduct research on a range of scales. From the international and national to the individual, with reference to a range of global contexts. Our work is methodologically innovative, drawing on:
This enables us to produce grounded, empirically-informed reflections on the multiple ways in which concepts of power, space and politics intersect.
See a full list of PhD power, space and political geography research topics.
Geographies of social change
In geographies of social change we explore and extend an applied, critical understanding of cities and urbanism. Ideas that run through our research include:
These lead us to connect with issues of:
See a full list of PhD social geography research topics.
Many of the research opportunities in geography are interdisciplinary and we are keen to encourage supervision across subject areas. For example there are opportunities for joint supervision with Latin American researchers in the School of Modern Languages.
Facilities
Our facilities include:
See our course fees and funding webpage - https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/degrees/geography-phd/#profile
A 2:1 honours degree and a master's degree, or international equivalent, in a relevant arts, humanities, science or social science subject such as:
International Students
To study this course you need to meet our Band 8 English Language requirements:
Direct Entry: IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills)
If you have lower English Language scores, you may be accepted onto a pre-sessional English course.
Our typical English Language requirements are listed as IELTS scores but we also accept a wide range of English Language tests.
The equivalent academic qualifications that we accept are listed on our country pages.
Pre-sessional English Course Requirements
You can study a pre-sessional English course at our INTO Newcastle Centre.
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