Geography and Planning

Entry requirements

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Months of entry

October

Course content

Our research structured around the following broad themes:

• Sustainable consumption and production systems
• Poverty, social justice and entitlement
• Regional, city-region and neighbourhood governance
• Innovation and regeneration
• Complexity, urban evolution and environmental systems
• Pedagogy, knowledge and the built environment

These themes are explored at multiple scales (supra-national, national, regional and local), in urban and rural spaces, and across different sectors (such as housing, environment, labour markets).

Research work is organised into five main groups with a number of crosscutting research centres.

Some of these focus work within research groups and others operate across research group boundaries.

We play a leading role in the Sustainable Places Research Institute, and play a leading role in the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) other research centres include

• Animal Geographies Research Cluster
• Centre for Economic Geography
• Energy Research Cluster
• Informal Economy Research Observatory
• Research Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Food.

• Environment
• Social and Cultural Geography
• Spatial Planning and Analysis in City Environments
• Urban and Regional Governance

Qualification and course duration

PhD

MPhil

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