Pilihan program

Ringkasan program

The Society, Space and Culture Research Cluster of the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology focuses on historical and contemporary human geography in order to advance its agenda, the cluster has developed a series of themes on the relationships between human society, spatiality and culture to which its members in various combinations contribute and which provide a focus their research endeavours; at present there are 5 related strands of inquiry: staff working on temporal GIS have succeeded in building at the first major national historical GIS; those associated with the Knowledge, Space and the Cultures of Science theme are currently working on Victorian natural history and civic science, the cultures of regional botanical gardens in the age of empire, the historical geography of Darwinism, and the spaces of financial knowledge; substantial proportion of research on the Spatial Analysis of Societies focuses on census analysis, including both Northern Ireland and India; research on travel-to-work, employability, youth labour markets and the use of geographically-weighted approaches to the analysis of commuting is being carried out, as well segregation analysis and the study of borders and external migration; research on the historical geographies of past economies and landscapes includes work on the medieval period and on early modern and modern Ireland; the medieval focus consists of quantitative spatial analyses of medieval socio-economic data, and qualitative cultural analyses of landscapes, geographical knowledge and maps of the middle ages.

Kualifikasi

Doktor (S3)

Institusi penerbit ijazah

Queen's University Belfast

Nama jurusan

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology

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