Postgraduate Research
Overview
The School of Natural and Built Environment is home to around 130 doctoral research students, studying across five disciplines: Archaeology/Palaeoecology; Architecture; Civil Engineering; Geography and Planning. It is an exciting place to undertake a PhD, providing a rich and vibrant environment with opportunities for inter-disciplinary work. Three cross-disciplinary research clusters enable the creation of synergies in areas such as sustainability, infrastructure, culture, design and heritage. The School has much impactful work in major research themes such as urbanism, community, heritage, population and climate change which contributes to the development of policy and practice both locally and globally. Read about some of the PhD research projects being undertaken in our School.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please use the links below which will guide you though the process of applying for a PhD. If you have any questions after reading, please contact the Postgraduate Research Administrator, Catherine Boone at pgr.snbe@qub.ac.uk
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Postgraduate Research
Postgraduate Research Courses Course Qualification Duration Planning MPhil 2 Academic Years Description The discipline of Planning is now located in the School of Natural and Built Environment. In recent years the performance of the discipline has been quite exceptional in a range of surveys, e.g. National Student Survey, Times Higher Education Survey and Guardian League Table. Given this, Planning at Queen’s is very highly ranked within the UK's Russell Group Universities.
Our research....Architecture MPhil 2 Academic Years Description Architecture at Queen’s addresses the issues of architecture and urbanism in an increasingly globalised world, where factors such as sustainability and climate change, identity and heritage, and notions of craft and form create a complex context that architecture has to mediate.
Architecture at Queen’s values both traditional academic and practice-based research. We have the expertise....Planning PhD 3 Academic Years Description The discipline of Planning is located in the School of Natural and Built Environment. In recent years the performance of the discipline has been quite exceptional in a range of surveys, e.g. National Student Survey, Times Higher Education Survey and Guardian League Table. Given this, Planning at Queen’s is very highly ranked within the UK's Russell Group Universities.
Our research programme....Archaeology & Palaeoecology MPhil 2 Academic Years Description By joining Archaeology & Palaeoecology you will become part of a dynamic group of researchers in one of two interdisciplinary Research Clusters: Environmental Change & Resilience (ECR) for more environmentally-related projects, and Culture & Society (C&S) for more humanities-related Archaeology projects.
Projects involving Palaeoecology or Scientific Archaeology focus on themes such as long-term....Geography PhD 3 Academic Years Description The research undertaken within Geography falls under two interdisciplinary Research Clusters; Environmental Change & Resilience (ECR) and Culture & Society (C&S).
Physical Geography-related projects focus on themes such as long-term landscape and environmental change, resilience of ecosystems, environmental change impacts on heritage structures, and analysis of contaminated lands. Investigative....Civil Engineering PhD 3 Academic Years Description The research centre will address the topical grand challenges in civil engineering field, building on existing and developing new international collaborations. Financial support to meet these challenges will be acquired through both internal University initiatives (for enhanced infrastructure and facilities) and external funding from government grants, charities and direct industrial support.
Research....Architecture PhD 3 Academic Years Description Architecture at Queen’s addresses the issues of architecture and urbanism in an increasingly globalised world, where factors such as sustainability and climate change, identity and heritage, and notions of craft and form create a complex context that architecture has to mediate.
Architecture at Queen’s values both traditional academic and practice-based research. We have the expertise....Archaeology & Palaeoecology PhD 3 Academic Years Description By joining Archaeology & Palaeoecology you will become part of a dynamic group of researchers in one of two interdisciplinary Research Clusters: Environmental Change & Resilience (ECR) for more environmentally-related projects, and Culture & Society (C&S) for more humanities-related Archaeology projects.
Projects involving Palaeoecology or Scientific Archaeology focus on themes such as long-term.... -
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