UCL Department of Geography

The UCL Department of Geography is a world-renowned centre for education, research, and public engagement.

Our programmes tackle global challenges including climate change, urban development, migration, environmental management and geopolitics, giving students the knowledge and skills to make a positive impact. We believe in hands-on learning, offering field courses and extensive support services. Join our world-leading community of learners and change-makers.

UCL was the first university in the UK to appoint a Professor of Geography, back in 1833. Today, the Department remains one of the most distinguished in the UK, with a global reputation for research to match.

Our mission

Is to produce world-leading research and to translate this into impact in all its forms (scholarly, pedagogical, enterprise, public engagement, policy).

We support a diversity of styles and scales of research, nurturing the very best of individual scholarship, concentrating strategically in areas where we can make a distinctive, significant and conceptually innovative contribution.

The quality of individual researchers in Geography, allied with our institutional strengths, provides an outstanding research environment that is stimulating and inclusive.

The Past Climates and Environmental Change and Biodiversity research groups are associated with the Environmental Change Research Centre.

Our Culture and Migration research group is linked to the Migration Research Unit (MRU) and the Equiano Centre, which was founded to undertake research on the black presence in Britain.