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From Antarctica to the Arctic, global warming to disaster risk reduction, Geography takes place at a truly global scale at Northumbria. Research in this department is focused in five groups: Cold and Palaeo Environments; Social and Cultural Geographies; Disasters, Development and Resilience; Environmental Geochemistry and Ecology; and the Northumbrian Environmental Training and Research Centre.
Prospective PhD students: Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD or MSc by research exist in all the areas identified above. Further information may be obtained from The Graduate School.
Visiting scholars: We welcome visiting academics - please contact Prof. Ben Brock
To access research outputs in this area and others, please visit Northumbria Research Link.
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Social and Cultural Geographies
The Social and Cultural Geographies group embraces a range of interests across human geography at Northumbria, whilst incorporating links with cognate social science subjects and encompassing relationships with organisations outside of academia.
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The group carries out research and field-based projects around the globe. The team investigate both modern and ancient environments from the tropics to the polar regions, under the main research themes of ice and snow permafrost; and past climate and environment.
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Research in this area addresses current and future survivability, with a focus on key themes of hazard, risk reduction, sustainable development and resilience, all of which are oriented to providing an evidence base for forming policy and new practices.
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We provide environmental and analytical training and consultancy for industry, focusing on the sustainability of the physical, chemical and biological environments. Our work covers local to global issues in areas such as environmental and spatial analysis; policy and prevention; climatic impacts and ecosystem services.
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We provide dedicated research and consultancy for hundreds of companies across the UK in environmental issues and analytical services for industry, as well as a range of accredited training courses including the NEBOSH diploma and certificate.
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This cross-disciplinary group supports educational and pedagogic research, ranging from small projects with an immediate impact on the student experience, through to funded collaborative projects with external partners generating high impact outputs.
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