One of the largest Geography and Planning departments in the UK ranked 14th for Research Power in REF2021, Liverpool has an established international reputation for research excellence with 36% of our publications rated as world-leading 4* (REF2021).

 

Four mature, inclusive, vibrant, and cognate Research Groups drive our world-leading 4* research environment ranked joint 8th in the UK.

 

Our ethos is to undertake research to understand better the physical and human processes shaping our environment and communities, the cognition and utilisation of these processes to support decision-making, and to predict the trajectories and causes of future change.

 

Environmental Change

 

The Environmental Change Group at the University of Liverpool explores past, present and future environmental change at a range of spatial and temporal scales across Earth.

 

Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management

 

Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management is an international research group addressing key planning challenges, from how oceans are managed through to the role of evidence in understanding development impacts.

 

Power, Space and Cultural Change

 

We are a vibrant, collaborative and collegial group of social, cultural, political, economic and historical geographers engaged in theoretically- and methodologically-rigourous, socially meaningful, and empirically grounded work.

 

Geographic Data Science Lab

 

A centre of excellence for research and teaching, solving grand human challenges through geographic data science, working at the intersection between data science and geography.

 

Research impact

 

Research in the University of Liverpool's Department of Geography and Planning has substantial impact.