Your Geography Offer

Congratulations on your offer. We hope to see you at one of our offer holder events. Take a look at some course info below and hear from our students.

Students on the Croatia fieldtrip

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Offer holder events

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Our in-person and online events are a great way to find out more about your course, the community you'll be studying in, and they are an opportunity to meet staff and students, and experience subject taster sessions. LEC student Carla hopes you can make it!

Your offer holder event

The dates

  • Saturday 1St Feb
  • Saturday 15th Feb
  • Saturday 8th March
  • Saturday 22nd March
  • Saturday 26th April

Sample schedule

Time

Activity

11:30

Arrival in the department and registration

12:00

Subject welcome talk

12:45

Lunch

13:30

Activities in the department for applicants

Q&A and tour of the department for guests

15:00

Student welfare and well-being talk

15:30

Refreshments

15:45

Event ends

During the event, you'll have the opportunity to:

  • Learn more about your chosen programme
  • Meet our academic staff and current student ambassadors
  • Ask questions and get answers about studying at Lancaster University
  • Discover the resources and support available to you

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Learn on location

We take full advantage of our natural surroundings to create amazing fieldwork experiences, in addition to the opportunities to travel the world with optional overseas field trips. Fieldwork is a fascinating way to develop your practical skills. You'll gain hands-on experience of a wide range of environmental, ecological and geological situations that will place your studies in the context of real-world issues.

  • Italy

    Visit Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, and study the complex processes that take place both on the surface and beneath volcanoes. You will explore many physical volcanic processes, including lava flow emplacement, explosive events and the evolution of a basaltic volcano. You will also evaluate methods of managing volcanic hazards on densely populated active volcanoes.

  • Croatia

    The Istrian Peninsula is an idyllic landscape but very dependent on its geology, biodiversity and position between differing climates. Istria is also the setting of dramatic socio-economic, political and environmental changes. You will focus on the challenges of environmental management, particularly of water resources, in this unique landscape.

  • Slapton Ley

    Our week-long trip to Slapton Ley in Devon offers a unique opportunity to study a critical environmental issue, eutrophication, through fieldwork and laboratory analysis. Based at Slapton Ley Field Studies Centre, you will explore the hydrological processes which govern a coastal freshwater lake of ecological significance.

Our flexible degree schemes

Geography student Fiona describes the flexibility and options that are in-built within a Geography degree.

Emily Christopherson, BSc Geography

A place for Emily

The course was a great transition from studying Geography at A level and focused on enhancing my skills to the next level. As a geographer, I've always loved exploring and getting out there, and that's exactly what my course enabled me to do.

At Lancaster, I've had the opportunity to continue studying both human and physical aspects of geography. The first year of my course gave me a great taster of both, leading me to specialise more in my second year. I chose to balance my studies between physical and human geography, but you can choose to focus more on one or the other if that's what you'd like to do. The degree is yours to be flexible with.

There's a great selection of modules, including interdisciplinary modules. I went on a water management trip to Croatia which combines aspects of physical and human geography. There's definitely something for every kind of geographer.

There are loads of opportunities to develop your learning at Lancaster, and fieldwork is the main one for me. I've visited Kendal to focus on implementing field management measures. I've visited White Scar Caves to look into hydrology and water systems. In laboratory sessions, I've done everything from studying rock formations in geology to studying flow rates in water. Not only is it varied and interesting, but it's also been brilliant to learn these industry skills to prepare me for life after my degree.

The Careers Service at the University ran a module for us, which was a four-week course on how to write a CV, the best places to look for jobs, and how to create a good cover letter and more, which was invaluable.

Emily Christopherson, BSc Geography

Meet the Team

  • Dr Andrew Folkard, Senior Lecturer and Lead Admissions Tutor for Geography

    My research is concerned with how physical aspects of aquatic environments - the natural currents, waves, mixing etc., but also the installation of manmade objects such as renewable energy infrastructure - interact with and influence their ecology and water quality. My teaching reflects this, focusing on lakes, rivers and coastal waters. I also teach extensively on the core skills modules for the geography degree schemes, covering quantitative data analysis skills and research methods.

  • Dr Kai Heron, Lecturer in Political Ecology and Admissions Tutor for Geography

    I am an interdisciplinary social scientist whose current research focuses on health inequities and disasters. I have a long-term interest in identifying pathways towards socially-just and sustainable futures for tropical forest regions, particularly the Amazon. My research program makes links between political ecology (particularly of health), food systems, urbanization and climatic change. I use mainly quantitative approaches and seek to ask and answer policy-relevant questions. I have been working in, and learning about, the social, health, environmental and political dimensions of tropical forests since 2002.

  • Dr Alex Bush, Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach

    I am a lecturer of environmental remote sensing at Lancaster University, specializing in ecological modelling for monitoring, managing and conserving biodiversity at macroecological scales. I hold degrees from the University of East Anglia and Macquarie University in Sydney, and I subsequently took research fellowships with the Australian and Canadian governments. My interests are in methods and models that will support up-to-date ecological monitoring at national scales, that will guide and improve the sustainability of ecosystems as a whole, and that reduce the rate of biodiversity loss from our landscapes.

  • Katie Miles, Lecturer in Physical Geography and Geography Admissions Tutor

    I am a glaciologist, interested in the internal structure and hydrology of glaciers and ice sheets and their response to climate change. I primarily carry out my research through fieldwork and have worked on glaciers and ice shelves in the Alps, Norway, Nepal, and Antarctica. I also use remote sensing to understand the Cryosphere from space. I use both my fieldwork and remote sensing research experience in my teaching our core skills and glacial modules, as well as the Alpine processes field course in Switzerland.

Keep in touch with us

If you would like more information, please feel free to email us at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) at lec.ug@lancaster.ac.uk or telephone us on tel:+441524521772

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