From climate change to inequality - working on the world's biggest problems today
Welcome to the School of Geography and Environment, a vibrant community of agenda-setting researchers, teachers, students and professional services staff.
We are one of the foremost geography and environment university departments in the world, internationally recognised for the quality of our research and our teaching. Geography at the University of Oxford is a large, vibrant and intellectually diverse community comprising the core academic department of the School of Geography and the Environment, its three research centres: the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) and the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) and several geographers based elsewhere in the wider university.
We craft robust, imaginative and forward-looking answers to pressing questions about the environment, technology, geopolitics and socio-economic change.
This subject is the intersection of everything. So many disciplines and pressing issues come together in one place.
Undergraduate study
Experience the unique and integrative undergraduate geography course at a university leading the way in geographical teaching and research.
Taught graduate degree programmes
With over 200 graduate students from a range of nationalities, professional and disciplinary backgrounds we are one of the largest, most diverse and vibrant graduate schools in the world offering advanced degrees in Geography and the Environment.
Graduate research degree programmes
The Doctor of Philosophy in Geography and the Environment (DPhil) is an advanced research degree which provides outstanding candidates with the support and intellectual environment to complete their own original research.
News
SoGE DPhil Anya Gleizer co-authors this Conversation article on theirMuseum of Climate Hope , designed to foster constructive engagement with the climate crisis and tackle eco-distress. (Image authors', CCBY4.0)