Geography - Research

Candidates should have obtained an honours degree (or equivalent international qualification) in Geography.

Course Code: MLITT-GEOG

Applications are made online via the NUI Galway Postgraduate Applications System.

Course Code: MLITT-GEOG



MLitt (Geography), full-time

MLitt (Geography), part-time

Current research projects


DERREG—Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization:


CONSENSUS—CONSumption, ENvironment and SUStainability in Ireland


ANCORIM—Atlantic Network for Coastal Risk Management


We offer fully supervised and well-resourced MLitt degree programmes located within a vibrant community of academic staff and research students. The calibre of our staff and facilities ensures the highest international levels of support for critical, theoretically innovative research. We provide purpose-designed student workspaces, state-of-the-art laboratories, field equipment and computing facilities. We have strong, multi-disciplinary linkages within the University, and with external national and international organisations.


Our expert research clusters include:


Environmental Change

Climate change

Coastal management

Aeolian sediment transport

Palaeoclimatology and palaeolimnology

Dendroecology

Natural hazards

GIS and remote sensing


Geopolitics and Governmentality

Interventionism and development

Geopolitics, political economy and securitization

Risk and governmentality

Environmental justice, postcolonialism and resistance


Planning and Sustainability

Environmental planning and governance

Sustainable development and political ecology

Urban and regional planning

Cities, technology and creative industries


Rural Studies

Rural, regional and local development

Globalisation and rural areas

Agricultural restructuring

Population, migration and settlement

Heritage and tourism