The School of Geography and Environmental Studies is a research-led and student-focused operation.
Our sixteen academic staff, based in Hobart and Launceston, are active in research and research training, and all are committed to knowledge exchange and to enlivening the research-teaching nexus.
As well as having strong track records in pure basic research, we have extensive expertise in local, national and international research consultancies.
While members of the School our proud of our interdisciplinary skills and capacities, we work from strong disciplinary foundations.
Some of us have training in political science, and the systematic study of political behaviours and organisations and their effects.
Others are human geographers, who work on cultural, historical, social and economic questions.
Some are focused on the scholarship of environmental planning and management.
Others are physical geographers, interested in biogeography or geomorphology or climatology. Some are oceanographers, tracking environmental change in marine environments.
Others still are fascinated by geographic information systems, remote sensing, geodesy and photogrammetry - the spatial sciences. Beyond these disciplinary skills, though, we all have a passion for interdisciplinary research involving collaboration across the University, around Australia and the globe on a range of seriously important questions at various scales from the local to the global.
Our key distinction? A perfect package of integrative, interdisciplinary skill!
Research Capabilities and Activities (PDF 407KB)
Contact: Elaine Stratford
Interested in some of the fascinating work done in the School?
Over 2009 we will be building up a collection of public summaries of key research completed by staff and students. In time that collection will go back into past research as well as keeping you informed about current projects.
Contact: Elaine Stratford