Department of Geography of Cambridge University

The Department of Geography has excellent facilities, a thriving Graduate School, and an established international reputation in five principal areas of human and physical geography. Applications for research degrees should fit within the categories listed below in order to gain advantage from the support of peers, research groups and facilities.

Key research areas:

• Regional economy and society
• Society, environment and development
• Environmental processes
• Historical and cultural geography
• Glaciology and Quaternary change.

Full details and members of staff working in each area can be found on www.geog.cam.ac.uk

Research collaborations:

In addition to the main research topics, students are encouraged to work with the University's interdisciplinary research groups and centres with which many of our staff are associated.

These include:

• Cambridge Coastal Research Unit (CCRU)
• Society, Environment and Development Group
• Centre for Business Research
• Cambridge Quaternary
• Unit for Landscape Modelling
• Cambridge Environmental Institute
• Unit for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP)
• Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)
• Cambridge Volcanology Group

Further information:

• www.geog.cam.ac.uk
• or request paper copies of the website from the Graduate Office Administrator