Program Overview
Civic Design, established in 1909, offers a transformative research program. Students cultivate essential research skills through supervised projects in diverse areas, including analysis, policy formulation, and people in space. The program fosters international collaborations and encourages students to publish their work in peer-reviewed journals.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
As the world’s first planning school, established in 1909, Civic Design offers quality professional education within a setting renowned for its innovative, influential research and scholarship. There is a wide range of research topics that reflects the diverse expertise of academic staff in the School. We aim to produce researchers with strong, transferable research skills, who are internationally recognised in their own fields and understand current environmental and academic research problems.
Teaching:
You’ll develop your research skills primarily by completing a project under supervision. These skills include:
- data collection
- manipulation of the data
- data interpretation and modelling
- critical analysis
- literature surveys
- presentation skills, through international conferences. We’ll also encourage and train you to publish academic papers. It’s not unusual for students to leave with 2-3 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Other:
- You will be joining a team that has close links with schools across Europe, the Americas and Pacific Asia.
- There is a wide range of research topics that reflects the diverse expertise of academic staff in the School.
- Research groups:
- Analysis
- Design
- Policy formulation
- Management and governance
- Earth Surface Dynamics
- Geology and Geophysics
- Earth's Interior Dynamics
- People, Space and Place
MPhil/PhD
Duration
Full time 2-4 years £4,786 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £29,750 (Band A)^ Faculty of Science and Engineering £29,750 (Band A)^ or £23,400 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £23,400 (Band B) Part time 4-6 years £2,393 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £14,900 (Band A)^ Faculty of Science and Engineering £14,900 (Band A)^ or £11,700 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £11,700 (Band B)
Notes:
- Please note that if you are undertaking a PhD within the Faculty of Science and Engineering the fee you pay, Band A or Band B, will reflect the nature of your research project. Some research projects incur a higher fee than others e.g. if you are required to undertake laboratory work. You will be informed of the fee for your programme in your offer letter. ^ Self-funded, full-time international students studying a PhD programme classified as Band A will receive a £2,000 reduction in their fees for the first year only.
