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Welcome to the School of Geography and Environment, a vibrant community of agenda-setting researchers, teachers, students and professional services staff.

We are one of the foremost geography and environment university departments in the world, internationally recognised for the quality of our research and our teaching. Geography at the University of Oxford is a large, vibrant and intellectually diverse community comprising the core academic department of the School of Geography and the Environment, its three research centres: the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) and the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) and several geographers based elsewhere in the wider university.

We craft robust, imaginative and forward-looking answers to pressing questions about the environment, technology, geopolitics and socio-economic change.

This subject is the intersection of everything. So many disciplines and pressing issues come together in one place.

DPhil student, 2022
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Taught graduate degree programmes

With over 200 graduate students from a range of nationalities, professional and disciplinary backgrounds we are one of the largest, most diverse and vibrant graduate schools in the world offering advanced degrees in Geography and the Environment.
MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Nature Recovery
MSc in Nature, Society & Environmental Governance
MSc/MPhil in Water Science, Policy & Management
MSc in Environmental Change & Management (Environmental Change Institute)
MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise & the Environment (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
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News

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IN THE MEDIA

The UK is surprisingly short of water – but more reservoirs aren’t the answer

Despite its rainy reputation, the UK’s public water supplies are often threatened by drought and water scarcity. Shouldn’t the country do a better job of capturing and using all its rain? Dr Kevin Grecksch, Departmental Lecturer and Course Director MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management, and Dr Kirsty Holstead, Wageningen University, explore the options in an article for The Conversation.

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NEWS

Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA) doctoral training programme deadline - 29 January

The University of Oxford, in partnership with five leading institutions, has launched the Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA). This ambitious doctoral training programme will prepare a new generation of creative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial researchers who are equipped to meet the complex, cross-disciplinary challenges the world faces.

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IN THE MEDIA

Logged tropical forests are still valuable for biodiversity, study finds

A research team led by the University of Oxford, including Prof Yadvinder Malhi, has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The results demonstrate that these have significantly different and cumulative environmental impacts - and that logged forests should not be immediately ‘written off’ for conversion to oil palm plantations. The findings have been published in Science.

Events

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#1 for Geography in: QS World University Rankings
Times Higher Education World Rankings
Guardian University Guide