Geography Queen's University Belfast

Overview

This Geography programme offered by Queen's University Belfast supports original research across physical and human geography through interdisciplinary research cells focused on the past, people, and planet. Candidates explore issues such as climate change, ecosystem resilience, landscape evolution, environmental management, spatial inequalities, cultural processes, political geography, and the relationships between people and place.

Course structure

You will carry out original research under the guidance of your supervisory team. There is no specific course content as such. This independent research is complemented by postgraduate skills training organised by Queen’s Graduate School, and other internal and external training courses organised through your supervisor.

You will normally register, in the first instance, as an ‘undifferentiated PhD student’ which means that you have satisfied staff that you are capable of undertaking a research degree. The decision as to whether you should undertake an MPhil or a PhD is delayed until you have completed ‘differentiation’.