Hazards and Disaster Management PgCert/PgDip/MSc
Research areas
Find out more here about research that goes on connected with this course and in the Faculty or School where it's taught.
Many of our staff in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment (GGE) are research active. This ensures that they are in touch with the latest subject developments and bring best practice to your studies.
Their broad research profile covers physical and human issues in hazard monitoring and management, including:
- volcanology and volcano stability;
- geophysical monitoring of volcanic and earthquake hazards and tsunami;
- climate change and hurricane activity;
- seasonal weather forecasting;
- the impact of natural hazards on tourism and development;
- flood hazards and water resource management;
- use of GIS in landslide management; and
- environmental radioactivity.
Research in the School of Earth Sciences and Geography at Kingston forms part of the Centre for Earth and Environmental Science Research (CEESR). Research falls into three different groups:
- Geodynamics and Crustal Processes Research Group (GCPRG) – including tectonics, basin evolution and applications of palaeomagnetism to global geodynamics;
- Environmental Change Research Group (ECRG) – including remote sensing of land cover change in tropical and temperate ecosystems and human impacts on watercourses and soils in Britain; and
- Rural Geography and Social Change Research Group (RSCRG) – including rural communities, change in the British countryside and urban socio-economic issues.
The GCPRG was one of only three UK Earth Sciences groups designated a ‘flagged group’ in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. This indicates that it is a grade 5-rated research group of ‘international quality’.
Student research
You can choose your own research areas and may be able to publish any research you undertake on the Kingston University Research and Innovation Reports (KURIR) website. This site gives anyone associated with Kingston University the opportunity to publish articles, which will be permanently available to the academic community.
We also encourage MSc students to publish their final research projects if they are of an adequate quality.
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