Proposed postgraduate research topics in Human Geography

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The Human Geography Research Group at Edinburgh welcomes applications for postgraduate research relating to any of our current research themes. In addition staff are keen to attract students interested in any of the following proposed postgraduate research projects in Human Geography. Research projects are grouped into the following general topics:

• Urban Geography
• Historical Geography
• Faith and Religion
• Health
• Aesthetics, Art, Creativity & Ethics
• Environment & Development
• Politics and Nationalisation
• Citizenship & Cultures

Urban Geography

Professor Patrick Meir

The Diffusion of Urban Revanchism
Dr Tom Slater

Urban marginality - anti-ghettos in British cities
Dr Tom Slater

Historical Geography

Historical Geographies of Science
Professor Charles Withers

History of Cartography
Professor Charles Withers

Historical Geographies of Exploration and Travel
Professor Charles Withers

Faith and Religion

Religion and asylum networks in the UK
Dr Elizabeth Olson

Geographies of religious change in Latin America
Dr Elizabeth Olson

Health

Designing 'healthy' neighbourhoods for the analysis of health inequalities
Dr Niamh Shortt

Context and Composition: how does where we live determine our health behaviours?
Dr Niamh Shortt

Aesthetics, Art, Creativity & Ethics

Environmental, Land and Ecological Art
Dr Emily Brady

Aesthetics and Nonhuman Animals
Dr Emily Brady

Creative Geographies
Dr Nina Morris and Dr Eric Laurier

Environment & Development

Development, Gender and Intellectual Property
Dr Elizabeth Olson

Politics and Nationalisation

Nationalism and Global Financial Crisis
Dr Jan Penrose

Citizenship & Cultures

Geographies of race: from anti-racism to multiculturalism in Scotland
Dr Jan Penrose

Global Indigeneity: How the world is 'going native'
Dr Jan Penrose