All academic staff in Geography are active researchers and the department has a thriving research culture and a strong postgraduate community. Research activity in Geography is organized into five groups. Further information can also be found by following links to individual staff profiles and their own homepages.

Environmental Dynamics

The main focus of this research group is understanding environmental variability throughout the Quaternary and the effects of future climatic change. The research focuses on regions especially sensitive to environmental change (tropical, cold and fire-prone) and also considers interactions between climatic change, human disturbance and catastrophic events.

Glaciology

The group undertakes research in glaciology and the cryosphere, specialising in understanding the processes that regulate glacier dynamics, flow instabilities and surging, and glacier fast flow. The group uses a wide variety of techniques including geophysics, numerical modelling and remote sensing, and current field projects span the Arctic, Antarctic and Alps.

Global environmental modelling and Earth observation

This group's research addresses a range of environmental issues including the interactions between vegetation and climate, glacier dynamics, and urbanization. The group is instrumental to the Climate and Land-Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), which is a NERC Centre of Excellence.

Migration, boundaries, and identities

The research undertaken within this group focuses on the social and political construction of place, nationalism and nationhood, on relationships between international migration, globalisation and the conceptualisation of place, and on geographies of exclusion, particularly as these relate to issues of race, gender and childhood.

Social theory and urban space

The group aims to advance theoretically informed understandings of space and spatiality, with particular reference to modern and postmodern cities. This theoretical ambition embraces a range of conceptual approaches, most notably those associated with poststructuralism.

 

We also participate in a number of University Research Centres and pan-Wales Research Networks.

• Centre for Urban Theory
• Centre for Migration Policy Research
• Climate Change Consortium of Wales (C3W)
• Institute of Environmental Sustainability
• Welsh Institute of Sustainable Environments (WISE)

 

And we host a number of major research projects.

• Climate and Land Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC)
• GLIMPSE
• Millennium

 

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