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The Human Geography Research Group at the University of Edinburgh is home to a vibrant group of internationally-recognised researchers. The Group provides a forum for innovative research into virtually all aspects of human geography, and generates agenda-setting research in social and cultural geography, urban geography, geographies of health and well-being, development geography, historical geography, and geography of environment and nature.
In order to give its work strategic focus, to facilitate collaborative endeavor, and to address societally significant questions, the Group focuses its energies on four research themes: Just Geographies; Lived Geographies; Materialising Geographies; Nature’s Geographies. The Group specialises in a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including archives, visual methods, statistics and GIS. It is committed to theoretically-informed research that generates empirically rich and conceptually vibrant perspectives on substantive geographical questions. Several research projects reach across one or more of these specified themes. Researchers in the Group work in collaboration with colleagues in cognate disciplines within the humanities, social sciences, medical sciences and natural sciences.
The Human Geography Research Group supports a lively programme of seminars, symposiums, reading groups and postgraduate workshops in order to promote and disseminate its research activities.
This article was published on Nov 16, 2011