School of GeoSciences School of GeoSciences

Research Institutes

All academic, research staff, and postgraduate students are affiliated to one of our three Institutes. As groupings of researchers with related interests, the Institutes provide a forum for development of ideas, collaboration, and dissemination of results, and an environment for training, development and mentoring of research students and early-career researchers.

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Earth and Planetary Science

Geology and geophysics relevant to resources, natural hazards, earth dynamics, and the environment.

Earth and Planetary Science

Geography and the Lived Environment

Geography and the Lived Environment

Understanding connections between people, society and the environment.

Geography and the Lived Environment

Earth's Atmosphere & ISS

Global Change

Understanding of past, present and future changes in the Earth system through measurements, theory, and computational modelling

Global Change


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