Course summary
We enjoy a reputation for world-leading research in a wide range of areas, including policy-relevant studies on global socioeconomic and cultural transformations, and sensitive environmental systems. You’ll work with expert faculty who are major contributors to policy debates within the UK Government, the EU and other international organisations. Our areas of expertise and supervision include:
- popular protest and the politics of labouring life
- critical finance studies and digital currencies
- postwar cultural geographies of Britain and the United States
- cultural geographies of race and representation
- postcolonial landscapes and identities
- everyday home-making practices and lived domestic space
- decolonising museums
- climate science and society
- geomorphology.
Modules
Recent thesis titles include:An evaluation of GIS as a countryside management tool to inform the creation of a large-scale, near-forest habitat network in West Sussex; black and white collaborative politics in South African Christian student movements 1907- 1978; botanic gardens: ‘walled, stranded arks’ or environments for learning; cities in motion: towards an understanding of the cinematic city; ecotourism, institutions and livelihoods: a study of North Rupununi, Guyana; food crop marketing and local economic development in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; gains, losses and changes: resettlement of Somali refugees in London and Toronto; institutional needs for natural resource conservation in mountain areas; media, imagination and migration: the role of Italian television in the Albanian migration to Italy; pastoral-farmer conflict in the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands of north-eastern Nigeria; rainfall variability and extremes over southern Africa; representations of diversity and cultural participation: performances of multiculturalism in Bologna and Barcelona; sediment transport in the Ouse-Newhaven Estuary; the global-local interplay and foreign direct investment in the European Union; the internationalisation of productive capital: Korean textile and clothing foreign direct investment in China; the migration and transition of Sierra Leonean refugee girls in England; the response of shingle beaches to storm events: a managed approach; threats to coastal shingle biodiversity in the Rives Manche. Please check our website in January 2025 for the modules running in the academic year 2025/26.
Assessment method
Research project
Entry requirements
You’re normally expected to have a Merit (an average of 60% of overall) in a Masters degree and an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree. Your qualification should be in geography or a closely-related subject area. In exceptional circumstances, you may be considered for the degree if you have a qualification in a different subject area. You may also be considered for the degree if you have other professional qualifications or experience of equivalent standing.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
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Sponsorship information
Research students in geography are supported by a number of grant-awarding bodies; the programme has full 1+3 and +3 recognition from the ESRC, and a track record of successful CASE studentship applications; geographers have been successful in obtaining interdisciplinary Quota and competition awards from the ESRC; studentships may also be available from the AHRC and NERC; there are financial opportunities for research students to contribute towards undergraduate teaching. Our goal is to ensure that every student who wants to study with us is able to regardless of financial barriers, so that we continue to attract talented and unique people.
Provider information
University of Sussex
Sussex House
Brighton
BN1 9RH