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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
A PhD in Human Geography at Manchester will allow you to benefit from the supervision of world-leading academics who have reputations for research excellence. The University of Manchester is one of the best places to study human geography globally, and our department has a high reputation for its research and teaching.Your research will seek to help create a fair and sustainable future, engaging with themes such as:emotions, identities, place and geographic scale;everyday life in uncertain times;global production networks and labour;socio-spatial inequality and vulnerability;political economy of environmental use, governance and conflict;sustainable cities and green transitions;urban politics and mobilities;urban transition and crisis;critical cartography.
