Study themes

We offer a very wide range of options across our BA, BSc and MSci degrees that allow students to follow their own specialist interests in geography and environmental science.

We have multiple themes that can help you to navigate this wide choice and develop your own, specialised programme of study.

Development Geography

Explore development and inequality within cities and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin American. Plus, discover ways in which urbanisation and global trade impact local societies and economies.

The interrelationships between society, politics and the environment are the core for this theme. Explore what we mean by nature and the environment, pollution and climate change, and identify the human and physical processes that impact our world.

Environmental Science

Use scientific investigation of environmental systems to understand and manage global and local environmental challenges, including climate change, water and air pollution and the biodiversity crisis. Gain hands-on experience in the field, laboratory analytical methods, remote sensing and environmental data science.

Spatial Data Science

Unique to King's, journey beyond the foundations of computer programming with this theme and use your acquired, highly employable skills in programming, statistics and visualisation (including GIS) to analyse applied issues in (geo)data.

Physical Geography

Focus on the physical environment and explore the processes that underlie issues such as natural hazards, global environmental change, sustainability, and ecological crises. Learn the skills required to understand these topics, including remote sensing, geographic information systems, field data collection and quantitative data analysis.

Urban and Cultural Geography

Study the problems and challenges facing contemporary cities in relation to class, gender, race and sexuality. Explore the ways that planning, governance and citizenship are enacted, and how cities are imagined through films, art and literature.

Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies at King's asks: how can we encourage regeneration without gentrification? Just one of the exciting themes you can study with Geography at King's.

Hear from Chloe about why she studies Geography

Meet Chloe and hear about why she studies Geography at King's. This includes her access to our world-class lab, which she uses to investigate air quality and climate change.