Department of Geography
The Geography Department at The Open University has a record of producing innovative research and teaching in both human and environmental geography. The achievements of the Department are reflected and recognized by its Excellent rating in the most recent Teaching Assessment Exercise and by having 55% of its research recognised as being world leading or internationally excellent in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Our courses cover topics such as sustainability, environmental policy, cities and globalisation.
This website will introduce you to the people who work and study in Geography here at The Open University, to the range of research activities and outputs that we are associated with, and to the opportunities for studying with us.
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News and Events
Research highlights
The Overseas Trained South-Asian Doctors and the Development of Geriatric Medicine Research Project has now concluded. Over two years, the researchers documented the major contribution South Asian doctors have made in shaping medical provision in the UK, and their experiences of working in the NHS, before these first-hand accounts were lost forever. Read the full Platform article
CCIG & OpenSpace Seminar: Citizenship in the 'In-between City'
The audio clip of Dr Patricia Wood's presentation 'Citizenship and the In-between City' in the OpenSpace Spatially Thinking seminar series is now available. Listen to the podcast from the seminar
Doreen Massey lecture on iTunes U
Podcasts from the inaugural Doreen Massey lecture, Space, Place and Politics, featuring Ash Amin, Olafur Eliasson, Ken Livingstone, Chantal Mouffe, Jamie Peck, Michael Rustin, Jane Wills and Doreen Massey, are now available on iTunes U, Open University, Social Sciences. Go to the OU iTunes U website
Courses
- Environment (U216)
- Living in a Globalised World (DD205)
- Understanding Cities (DD304)
- Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context (DU311)