Research and consultancy
Staff in the Department are committed to providing a stimulating learning environment for students by underpinning their teaching with personal research.
Environment, Sustainability and Resource Management
- Biogeography and conservation
- Coastal geomorphology
- Environmental applications of remote sensing and GIS
- Fluvial geomorphology and catchment management
- Quaternary environmental change
Space, Culture and Regeneration
- Rural and Urban regeneration
- Social and cultural geography
- Landscapes of mourning, remembrance and pilgrimage
- Gendered spaces and gendered knowledge
Tourism and Migration Geographies
- The construction and consumption of ‘new’ tourism spaces and places
- Leisure lifestyles, social capital and retirement migration
- Sustainable and responsible tourism
- The role of tourism in post-conflict/crisis recovery
- Ethical issues and power relationships in tourism
External review has noted the high quality of the research undertaken by members of the department. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 70% of our research was rated as either internationally excellent or internationally recognised.
Making research links
Staff in the Geography Research Unit work alongside colleagues from allied research centres in the Faculty of Environment and Technology and across the University.
Research is often undertaken with external agencies to ensure that it is relevant to local communities and industries. Work has been undertaken, for example, with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England, UK Department for International Development, Environment Agency, Forest Research, Consumer Council for Water, UK Water Companies and the Severn Estuary Research Group. The geography team aim to examine real world problems that affect real people in order to inform sustainable livelihoods and practices.
Recent research output
The staff publish their research in a number of forms, including books, book chapters, journal articles, conference presentations and popular media. Recent books that have been published by staff in the Department are:
Stroma Cole and Nigel Morgan (2010) Tourism and Inequality. Oxford: CABI.
Jennifer Hill and Tim Gale (eds) (2009) Ecotourism and Environmental Sustainability: Principles and Practice. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Avril Maddrell (2009) Complex Locations: Women’s geographical work in the UK 1850-1079. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Andrew Tallon (2009) Urban Regeneration in the UK. London: Routledge
Andrew Tallon (ed.) (2010 forthcoming) Critical Concepts in Urban Studies: Urban Regeneration and Renewal Major Works (4 volumes). London: Routledge.
Page last updated 17 November 2011