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Geography Taught Masters (Ma/MSc)

Our Taught Masters Programmes build skills and expertise to tackle complex challenges.

The programmes are grouped into two suites, those concerned with Sustainable Futures and those concerned with Risk.

 

Taught Masters Programmes

The courses on the Sustainable Futures route respond to the profound challenge of developing ‘sustainable futures’ in the midst of climate change, by understanding relations between climate change and society, and on exploring and evaluating emergent sustainable solutions at different scales.

The courses on the Risk route provide a thorough grounding in theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, understanding, framing, assessing and managing different aspects of risk.

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MSc Cities and Sustainable Futures

Focus on how global cities are being made and remade in relation to climate change.
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MSc Climate Change, Environmental Processes and Sustainable Futures

Develop skills in understanding climate-environment feedbacks and decision-making for the future.
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MSc Climate Change, Society and Sustainable Futures

Explore relations between climate change and society and how sustainable futures are being created from within environmental crises.
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MA in Climate, Risk and Society

Explore the social dimensions of climate risk and resilience from multiple perspectives.
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MSc in Climate, Risk and Society

Focus on a natural science approach to risk that enables you to engage with the natural and social dimensions of climate change.
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MSc in Environmental Hazards and Risk

Develop specific skills within the natural and social dimensions of environmental hazards including flooding, landslides and earthquakes.
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MA in Risk, Security and Politics

For anyone especially interested in a social science approach to risk, focusing on social policy, politics and security
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Johannesburg Skyline from Wikimedia CommonsStudent Dissertation

See an example of the world class outputs from our postgraduate students:

A ‘World Class African City’? Exploring the usefulness of the Resilient Cities Index (RCI) through an investigation of urban resilience in Johannesburg

Ruby West in collaboration with Marsh Advisory

 

 

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Social Sciences International Brochure

The stories presented in our International Brochure demonstrate sustained and positive engagement with international partners, particularly around work with social justice in society and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Our 8 departments have funded research projects on every continent.

Find out more in our International Brochure Postgraduate International Students
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Research and Impact

We are a large department of human and physical geographers conducting world-leading research that addresses pressing social and environmental challenges.

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Contact Us

Founded in 1928, the Department of Geography at Durham University is one of the leading centres of geographical research and education in the world.

Department of Geography

Postgraduate Study
Durham University
Lower Mountjoy
South Road, Durham
DH1 3LE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)191 33418000

 

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