Royal Holloway and Bedford New College · UK

Geography PhD

Campus PhD Full Time

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Delivery

Campus

Study mode

Full Time

Level

PhD

Introduction

Geography PhD is a PhD program taught at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.

The Geography PhD at Royal Holloway focuses on research in areas including Quaternary science, social, cultural, and historical geography, the GeoHumanities, geopolitics and security, development studies and sustainability. The department lists research centres and groups including the Centre for the GeoHumanities, the Centre for Quaternary Research, the Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice research group, and the Social, Cultural and Historical Geography research group.

PhD researchers work with laboratory and computing facilities, including scientific laboratories for physical geography and Quaternary science and the Geospatial and Visual Methods Laboratory with Geographical Information Systems software and image handling packages. Assessment is ordinarily a written thesis of monograph form of not more than 100,000 words, with an alternative for practice-based research that includes substantial performance or creative work and a written submission of 30,000–60,000 words.

Admission Requirements

The minimum requirements for admission in Geography PhD at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

program specific academic requirment set by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College as pre-requiste for admission in Geography PhD.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

The Department would ordinarily expect applicants to hold a UK 1st- or upper 2nd-class undergraduate degree (or a recognised international equivalent) together with a relevant Master’s degree (at Pass level or higher). Professional experience, particularly in the case of applicants wishing to pursue a practice-based PhD, will be considered in the absence of a Masters degree.

Before applying we recommend securing a supervisor in order to apply for your research project.

We advise getting in touch with the Director of Postgraduate Education making an informal enquiry for your chosen research degree to inquire whether there is any other additional material they require you to submit in your application.

IELTS: 6.5 overall. Writing 7.0. No other subscore lower than 5.5.
Pearson Test of English: 67 overall. Writing 76 no other subscore lower than 59.
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE): ISE III.
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) grade C.
TOEFL ib: 88 overall, with Reading 18 Listening 17 Speaking 20 Writing 26.
Duolingo: 120 overall, 135 in Literacy, 135 in Production and no sub-score below 100.