Course summary

A PhD in Human Geography at Manchester will allow you to benefit from the supervision of world-leading academics who have reputations for research excellence. The University of Manchester is one of the best places to study human geography globally, and our department has a high reputation for its research and teaching. In the UK's most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), 94% of our publications were judged to be 'internationally recognised', with an exceptionally high proportion (65%) judged to be 'internationally excellent' or 'world-leading'. Your research will seek to help create a fair and sustainable future, engaging with themes such as:

• emotions, identities, place and geographic scale;

• everyday life in uncertain times;

• global production networks and labour;

• socio-spatial inequality and vulnerability;

• political economy of environmental use, governance and conflict;

• sustainable cities and green transitions;

• urban politics and mobilities;

• urban transition and crisis;

• critical cartography.

• Mapping, Culture and GIS ;

• Society and Environment Research Group ;

• Cities, Politics and Economies Group, which is part of the wider Manchester Urban Institute , the umbrella organisation for research into cities at the university.