Quaternary Science MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This MSc provides specialist training in the scientific study of past environmental change, including laboratory and field techniques. The programme is offered jointly with UCL; NERC studentships available.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at Royal Holloway, University Of London

Human Geography Research MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme combines hands-on experience of planning and executing research projects in the social sciences with a critical overview of debates in methodology; it offers the ideal grounding for students wishing to pursue a PhD in human geography and may form the 1st year of an ESRC 1+3 studentship award.(read more)

All earth sciences courses at Loughborough University

Geography MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: There are 4 research groups: Cities, environment, politics and development and environmental monitoring and modelling; the research themes provide the central focus on: cultural, political and social change in cities; urban governance and public policy in cities; urban sustainability; environment and development in low-income locations.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at King's College London (University Of London)

Economy, Space and Society MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course provides a research-led teaching and learning programme for study at the research frontiers of economic geography; students learn critical evaluation of core theoretical and empirical developments in economic geography; and a comprehensive understanding of contemporary economic and business landscapes.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at University Of Nottingham

Geography MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme provides a general grounding in geography; in addition to a compulsory dissertation, students choose from a wide range of thematic items; the distinction between the MA and the MSc arises from the modules taken; the MA is awarded for degrees that focus on human geography, including fields such as environment and development, environmental policies and politics, geopolitics, urbanisation and globalisation.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at King's College London (University Of London)

Geography and Environmental Sciences MPhil

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research interests of staff include: water quality, climatology and paleoclimatology; cultural and political geography; geopolitics; environmental hydrology; hydroecology; hydroclimatology; service sector geographies; business and professional services; business knowledges; offshoring; expertise-driven economies; manufacturing competitiveness; industrial design; 3rd sector geographies; alternative forms of finance; sustainable urban development.(read more)

All earth sciences courses at University Of Birmingham

Geography and Environmental Sciences MSc (Res)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research falls into 3 main categories: Human geography: health and medical geography; health and GIS; geographies of religion; demographics; urban geography; transport geography and travel planning; physical geography: geohazards, glaciology, arctic and alpine environments; climate change; high and low pressure environments on human physiology; environmental sciences: environmental history; environmental monitoring of pollution; aquatic ecology.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at University Of Hertfordshire

Geography MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme provides a general grounding in geography; in addition to a compulsory dissertation, students choose from a wide range of thematic items; the distinction between the MA and the MSc arises from the modules taken; the MA is awarded for degrees that focus on human geography, including fields such as environment and development, environmental policies and politics, geopolitics, urbanisation and globalisation.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at King's College London (University Of London)

Hydrogeology MSc

Study modes: Full time

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All earth sciences courses at University Of Strathclyde

Geotechnics MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course consists of 8 core modules and a dissertation project; in addition to the projects proposed by course leaders and the industrial partners, students may propose topics themselves; compulsory modules: Introduction to geotechnics; geotechnical engineering; site investigation and risk assessment; rock mechanics, tunnelling and groundwater; recycling urban land; ground improvement and reinforcement; soil modelling and numerical analysis.(read more)

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Physical Geography MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Current research themes: middle holocene environmental history of the lower Thames Valley; environmental archaeology, landscapes and geographical information systems; middle pleistocene palaeoenvironments; quanternary glaciations of Eastern language; factors affecting distribution and preservation of microtephra particles in lategalcial sediments; sustainability of irrigated terraced agricultural systems in Peru.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at Royal Holloway, University Of London

Earth Sciences MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research is across a wide range of the earth sciences and the School is always pleased to discuss individual research proposals from students; there are 3 research groups: 1) Hydrogeology research group, concerned with: identifying and quantifying the physical and chemical processes governing the movement and fate of contaminants in groundwater systems.(read more)

All earth sciences courses at University Of Birmingham

Soil Science MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Flexible modular courses; content: 8 modules, 4 compulsory; compulsory modules: computing, project planning, data analysis and interpretation, aspects of soil physics and soil biology.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at University Of Aberdeen

Geoscience of Subsurface Exploration Appraisal and Development (GeoSEAD) MSc

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Course covers fundamentals of subsurface exploration appraisal and development; the course is structured around core modules in various geoscience and engineering disciplines, and their integration for effective subsurface characterisation and management.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Applied Physical Oceanography MSc

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Provides theoretical, and practical training in measuring, and interpreting the structure, and dynamics of the ocean; basic, and advanced theory; observational methodology, and data analysis techniques; problems of the marine physical environment: coastal, and estuarine; introduction to physics of the ocean, role in the climate system.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at Bangor University

Palaeolithic Archaeology and Human Origins MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme offers a unique opportunity to study the rich, global archaeological evidence of our earliest origins, using Palaeolithic and Quaternary archives; student are trained in the practical analysis of Palaeolithic stone artefacts, and encouraged to place this knowledge into a broad framework, based on current interdisciplinary research, enabling them to investigate the key questions in human evolution.(read more)

All earth sciences courses at University Of Southampton

Global Migration MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: An introduction to refugee studies; refugee rights and refugee settlement; approaches to social research; sociology dissertation; elective modules: globalisation: challenges and transformations;
communities and social action; human wrongs; rights, multiculturalism and citizenship; media and human rights; political sociology; theories of race and ethnicity; crime, justice and security; global migration; international human rights law.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at City University London

Marine Environmental Protection MSc

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Provides theoretical, and practical training in measuring, and quantifying marine resources, and the effects of conflicting usage upon them; scientific basis on which to develop policy, and make decisions on marine resource exploitation, and protection around the world; major themes: Assessment of biological variability; habitat ecology; environmental impacts on ecosystems, and communities; safeguarding marine biota, and water quality.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at Bangor University

Geology and Petroleum Geology MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Contact provider for further course (read more)

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All earth sciences courses at University Of Aberdeen

Ocean Science MPhil

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research areas: physics of the shelf seas; sedimentary processes; biogeochemistry; marine biology; facilities include the research vessel (Prince Madog), aquaculture facilities and a full range of modern analytical equipment needed to study the biology, physics, geology and chemistry of oceans and seas.(read more)

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All earth sciences courses at Bangor University