PhD Geography - Human Geography (Environment and Sustainability)

Transitioning to a just and sustainable society is one of the defining challenges of our time. The Environment and Sustainability research group undertakes cross-disciplinary and global research on the theory, methods, and policies that shape social and environmental sustainability. The research spans diverse fields such as geography, economics, psychology, environmental science, sociology, and political science. Research focuses on sustainability challenges across multiple spatial and political scales: collaborating with researchers and stakeholders from the Global South across Asia and Africa, Europe, and local communities in Devon and Cornwall. We co-create solutions with civil society and decision-makers to foster sustainability transitions, build resilience, and envision sustainable futures. We advance cutting-edge social science methods, including ethnographic, participatory, and large-scale survey approaches. The research focus includes energy transitions; land use change; marine and coastal resources and places; deliberative democratic approaches; demography, public health and migration; and the core of sustainability science.

Normally students will have a good undergraduate Honours degree (UK Upper Second Class Honours or equivalent) and in some cases, a Masters degree.