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GRADUATE RESEARCH DEGREES IN GEOGRAPHY

Introduction

Geography offers research-based graduate degrees across a wide range of research fields spanning both physical and human geography. There are two types of research degree: an MLitt and a PhD. The MLitt is completed on a two-year full-time basis. From the start of the 2009/2010 academic year, the PhD moves to a four-year, structured programme as the preferred option, although a three-year programme also remains in place in the immediate term (fees for the four-year and three-year programmes amount to the same overall total). Part-time options are available for both the MLitt and PhD.

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Entry requirements

Submission of a structured research proposal is a requirement for application to our MLitt and PhD programmes. Proposals and a CV should be sent to the Director for Graduate Studies (see also Research Proposal). Decisions on applications are made by Geography’s Graduate Committee.

We recommend that you make contact with the Director for Graduate Studies prior to submitting your research project. He will be pleased to provide you with whatever advice possible in formulating your project and in identifying potential supervisors - whose area of academic interest most closely relates to your own proposed research. Establishing a good two-way working environment at an early stage is critical to the success of a project. Details of all staff members are to be found on our webpages.

For entry to the MLitt, candidates should have obtained a Second Class Honours degree, Grade 1 overall, with a 2.1 minimum in Geography. For entry to the PhD programme, candidates should normally have an Upper Second Class Honours Degree, Grade 1 overall. PhD applicants are also required to attend an interview as part of the selection process.

Applications are then made online via The Postgraduate Applications Centre ( PAC ). Applications via the PAC system should NOT be made before a decision has been reached on the proposal by Geography's Graduate Committee. Students are also advised to check for further details on the NUIG Graduate Admissions page.

For further information:

Dr Aaron Potito Director of Graduate Studies AC 125a, School of Geography and Archaeology                        National University of Ireland, Galway Ph. 00 353 (0) 91 49 3936 Email:  aaron.potitonuigalway.ie

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Careers in Geography

A degree in Geography can lead to a career in many different fields (e.g. Planning, Teaching, G.I.S., Administration, Environmental Consultancy, Journalism) after appropriate Graduate study or training. Recent graduates have carved out niches for themselves in such diverse fields as physical planning, marketing, banking, environmental consultancy, heritage, television production, tourism, and management.

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Departmental Staff – Areas of Research Interest

Dr Mary Cawley 
mary.cawleynuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/caw.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Rural change and development; population and settlement; migration; tourism.

Dr Frances Fahy
frances.fahynuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/fahy.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Environmental planning and sustainability; social and cultural consequences of environmental change.

Prof. Séamus Grimes
seamus.grimesnuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/grimes.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Information technology and regional/rural development; population issues including international migration; geography and philosophy.

Dr Kieran Hickey
kieran.hickeynuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/hickey.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Historical environmental change; soils and biogeography; climate change and natural hazards.

Dr Valerie Ledwith
valerie.ledwithnuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/ledwith.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Social urban geography; demographic change; immigration.

Dr Kevin Lynch
kevin.lynchnuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/lynch.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Aeolian sediment transport; coastal management; coastal processes; environmental sciences; geomorphology; GIS; hydrology; physical geography; remote sensing.

Dr Marie Mahon
marie.mahonnuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/mahon.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Urban-rural interactions (place meaning and identity; population change; community and civic engagement); social geography.

Dr John McDonagh
john.mcdonaghnuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/mcdonagh.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Rural development and rural environments (rural restructuring; agricultural change; rural transport; natural resources)

Dr John Morrissey
john.morrisseynuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/morrissey.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Political and cultural geography; critical geopolitics; imperialism; postcolonialism; international security; post-conflict development

Prof. Micheál Ó Cinnéide
micheal.s.ocinneidenuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/cinn.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Local development;sustainable development; An Ghaeltacht.

Dr Aaron Potito
aaron.potitonuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/potito.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Palaeoclimatology and palaeolimnology; biogeography; chironomids; dendroecology and dendroclimatology; climate change.

Dr Anna Stanley
anna.stanleynuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/stanley.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Environmental justice; marginality; environmental politics; nature/culture.

Prof. Ulf Strohmayer
ulf.strohmayernuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/ulf.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Historical and Urban Geography; Modernisation Processes; History of Geographic Thought; France and Germany.

Dr Chaosheng Zhang
chaosheng.zhangnuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/zhang.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Environmental sciences; physical geography; quantitative methods; China; GIS.
 

    

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