Department of Geography Postgraduate Bursaries: MA/MSc Sustainable Cities

Department of Geography

King's College London

The Department of Geography, King’s College London offers Departmental Bursaries valued at £1,000 for UK/EU and £2,000 for overseas scholars. These prestigious awards are made on a competitive basis for the support of students without existing studentship support applying for full-time taught postgraduate programmes offered in the Department of Geography. All applications received by 31 May are automatically entered into the competition, with no additional paperwork required from the applicant. Awardees are notified by the end of June.

The MSc Sustainable Cities programme will provide advanced level understanding of contemporary debates about sustainable cities, with a specific focus on the human and physical processes shaping urban ecologies and environments. It aims to develop a critical understanding of the interrelationships between urbanization and human lifestyles, politics, economy, ecology and environment; develop a critical understanding of human impacts on physical processes in cities, and the implications for habitation and liveability; develop an ability to evaluate critically advanced scholarship in the field of urban policy, with reference to sustainable environmental management; promote initiative and the exercise of independent critical judgment in identifying, analysing and solving problems at an advanced level.; develop relevant transferable skills embedded in the learning and assessment schemes in the programme; develop practical skills in data handling, interpretation, and use, and develop skills in (inter) relating physical dynamics to social, political and management processes; enable those with first degrees in a range of disciplines – geography, sociology, environmental science, engineering etc to focus on the challenges of managing cities in an integrated and sustainable manner; enable those taking the programme to deploy scientific and social and economic theory within a sustainability framework which takes into account the need to address the needs of society, the economy and the protection of environmental services.