Geography and environmental science

Offered by the School of Geography and Environmental Science

Telephone: +61 3 9905 4624

Email: postgradges@arts.monash.edu.au

Geography and environmental science is concerned with the interactions between the physical and human world. The School of Geography and Environmental Science has an active research program that provides graduate students with research training and the foundations for engagement with government, non-government organisations (NGOs) and private sector research and policy initiatives. This program is based on three broad academic strengths. The first explores the key factors associated with evolving patterns of environmental and social change across a range of scales (metropolitan to local community), activities (housing, farming, services), and contexts (Australia and the Indo-Pacific ocean region), utilising a variety of innovative methodologies. The second addresses short and long-term changes in climate, vegetation and the physical and the human landscape. The approaches adopted aim to explain the present-day environment and provide essential baseline data for realistic modelling and prediction of future change and its impacts. The third area is concerned with the socio-political structures shaping human interactions with the biosphere and explores the community governance of environmental and ecological change at local national and international scales.

Expertise within the school contributes to several research strengths identified by the faculty: environmental change and variability in Australia and the Indo-Pacific ocean region; social, political and cultural change in the Indo-Pacific ocean region; and Australian urban and regional studies. Within these broad areas of research strength, supervision for PhD and masters candidates is available in the School of Geography and Environmental Science in the following specific areas: climatology, geomorphology, palynology, palaeoecology, geographic information systems, regional geography, international development, Australian Indigenous archaeology, urban geography, business and environmental sustainability, cultural geography, environmental governance. Staff in the school have consistently been the recipients of grants from external funding bodies such as the Australian Research Council, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

Master of Science

A Master of Science may also be completed within the School of Geography and Environmental Science in some of the areas listed above. See also the ‘Faculty of Science’ section in this handbook.

Relevant course groups

Doctor of Philosophy

Masters degree by research

Masters degree by research and coursework

Masters degree by coursework

Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)

Postgraduate Diploma

Graduate Certificate

Faculty Certificate

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