School of GeoSciences

Welcome to the School of GeoSciences LinkedIn page, where we will be posting news and updates of interest to our alumni, current students, colleagues and friends. We explore the factors and forces that shape our world, and aim to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. The School comprises of over 500 academic staff and research students, together with appx. 350 Postgraduate Taught and 1,000 Undergraduate students. We are extremely proud of our graduates, who span the globe to undertake exciting careers within and outwith geosciences. We are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK and have been identified by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 assessment as having the UKs greatest concentration of excellent researchers in its subject areas. A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic st...