Program Overview

As the world’s first planning school, established 1909, Civic Design offers you quality professional education within a setting renowned for its innovative, influential research and scholarship.

There is a wide range of research topics that reflects the diverse expertise of academic staff in the School. To find out more about the research topics available, and the ongoing research studentships visit our Postgraduate Research page.

We aim to produce researchers with strong, transferable research skills, who are internationally recognised in their own fields and understand current environmental and academic research problems.

You’ll develop your research skills primarily by completing a project under supervision. These skills include:-

data collection

manipulation of the data

data interpretation and modelling

critical analysis

literature surveys

presentation skills, through international conferences.

We’ll also encourage and train you to publish academic papers. It’s not unusual for students to students leave with 2-3 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.

Research groups

Analysis

Design

Policy formulation

Management and governance

Earth Surface Dynamics

Geology and Geophysics

Earth's Interior Dynamics

People, Space and Place