Geography

Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University encompass all of our work in physical and human geography, environmental science, environmental health and management, health & safety, and disaster management.

• Programmes regularly achieving over 90% student satisfaction in the National Student Survey.

• Flexible undergraduate courses with BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), integrated Masters MGeog and pathways in Human and Physical Geography and Environmental Management and Science.

• Professionally accredited environmental management and environmental health courses strengthening our links to the workplace.

• Geography Sectorial Employer Advisory Board including Northumberland National Park and Northumbria Water.

• Our Disaster Management and Sustainable Development MSc course, with accompanying networks, was the first in the world to lead on these integrated fields.

• Specialist research in cold and paleo environments, communities and resilience and ecology, with projects and engagement taking place in more than 30 countries, from Antarctica to the tropics.

• Research funded and/or in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Department for International Development (DfID), Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), the Leverhulme Trust, Environment Canada, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and US National Science Foundation (NSF).

• Partners in international consortia including the £6.6M NERC Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Consortium (SLE), Globalization and World Cities Research Network (China, Germany, The Netherlands, USA), Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (China, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, USA) and the $1.1M US NSF POLARIS Consortium.

• Excellent publications with 55% ranked as world leading or internationally excellent according to the latest UK-wide research assessment exercise (REF2014, UoA17) making us a top-30 Geography Research Department based on research power.

• Leading provider of NEBOSH training in health and safety and provider of a range of bespoke courses for industry, NGOs, government bodies, UN, and the Environment Agency.