Postdoctoral Research Associate in Glacimarine Sedimentology and Palaeoceanography - Durham, United Kingdom - DURHAM UNIVERSITY

    DURHAM UNIVERSITY
    DURHAM UNIVERSITY Durham, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    The Department of Geography at Durham comprises 68 academic staff (approximately equally divided between physical and human geography), a graduate school of around 100 research students, around 40 taught postgraduate students and more than 650 undergraduates.

    The Department is well supported with technical staff, including a cartography unit, and administrative staff.


    The Department was ranked joint first for research quality among UK geography departments in REF2021 and third for research power.

    With 54% of work assessed as being in the highest category, it produced the largest number of world-leading (4*) publications in the country.

    The most recent QS rankings for Geography placed Durham 14th overall in the world, with over a decade in the top fifteen, and 3rd for citations in the discipline.

    The department is recurrently ranked in the top handful of programmes in the UK by various league tables; in 2023, we were ranked 3rd in the Complete University Guide.