Overview and Facilities

Overview

Shackleton Building

Shackleton Building

The School of Geography enjoys a national and international reputation for the quality of its research and its undergraduate teaching. The School currently consists of 34 academic staff (Professor Peter Atkinson is Head of School) supported by 11 Administrative and Clerical Staff, 2 Technicians and a dedicated geocomputational specialist. Professor Mike Clark is Director of the GeoData Institute which employs 19 research scientists. The Cartographic Unit is staffed by 6 cartographers. The School lies within the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics, and has close working relationships with many other Schools in the University.

Shackleton Lecture Theatre A

Shackleton Lecture Theatre A

The School runs BSc and BA honours degrees in Geography, and joint BSc degrees with the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences. Student exchange agreements exist with a wide range of European and North American Universities. The School runs an MA in Creative Cities, an MSc in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, and an on-line MSc in Geographical Information Systems. It also participates in an innovative Erasmus Mundus-supported MSc course in Geoinformation for Environmental Management with institutions in the Netherlands, Sweden and Poland. Finally, the Graduate School admits students for research degrees in our specialist areas.

The School is committed to research of international excellence in three areas of geography: Economy, Culture, Space; Environmental Processes and Change and Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. The School was graded 5A in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.

Facilities

Cartographic Unit

Cartographic Unit

 

Geography has a well-appointed building on an attractive campus. There are lecture theatres and meeting rooms for undergraduate teaching in our own building and we have excellent facilities for staff and postgraduate research including...

The Cartographic Unit is situated on the first floor of the Shackleton Building and provides support for all areas of teaching and research within the School and throughout the University. It provides a wide range of cartographic, graphic, reprographic and photographic services, together with help and advice to staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students.