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  • Qualification

    MPhil - Master of Philosophy

  • Location

    Keele University

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Research in Human Geography at Keele is clustered around two broad themes: Social Geography - Research focuses on issues concerned with population and social demography, international migration and super-diversity, rural and urban planning, GIS and its application, social justice and development, health geographies and inequalities and family mobility. Cultural Geography - Research focuses on cultural economies and creative geographies (including curating development and community art and plastic waste), literary geographies, cross-cultural world literature and representations of space and place, post-colonial lifeworlds, animal geographies (animal welfare and pet theft) and nature-society relations.

Human Geography research at Keele is wide-ranging but particularly focused around Social and Cultural Geography. Details of research being undertaken by staff at Keele of relevance to each theme is provided briefly below.

Social Geography

A key area of research focuses around family mobility, social justice - including the importance of citizenship and volunteering and entrepreneurship - and emotional and health geographies. In this respect, current research is innovative and highly relevant to the world in which we live in today, including an exploration of the dystopian and utopian qualities of ‘busyness and issues around alcohol consumption, diabetes, smoking, vaping and health inequalities.

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£ 16,042per year

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University information

Keele University

  • University League Table

    61st

  • Campus address

    Keele University, Staffordshire, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    35th out of 73 5

  • Entry standards

    / Max 211
    114 54%

    56th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    81.0 81%

    18th

    7
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.17 79%

    25th

    11

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