The School of Geography and the Environment is one of the leading international centres for geographical and environmental research.

The School aims to innovate within Geography, moving the discipline in new directions and to demonstrate the centrality of geographical perspectives and questions to interdisciplinary work.

This agenda and strategy builds upon a unique position within the University's Social Sciences Division that promotes new intellectual challenges and spaces for cross-cutting work between social and natural scientists. The distinctive feature of the School's research profile and agenda is the extension of traditional geographical concerns with spatial ordering and movement, and environmental process and change, through the prism of 'life'.

These concerns are refracted through four conceptual thematics - knowledges / technologies; resources / bodies; power / politics; spaces / ecologies - which in different ways run through the five research clusters.

Within this framework, our aim is to produce theoretically inventive, grounded research that is both intellectually agenda-setting within and beyond the discipline and makes policy interventions of national and international significance.