PhD in Land Economy

University of Cambridge

Land Economy offers a full-time and a part-time PhD programme. The department currently has over 70 PhD students at different stages of the programme, working in a range of areas. Our department leads the field in the UK's latest Research Excellence Framework rating of Land Economy's joint submission with Architecture. 87.5% of our impact case studies, including research on the transition to a low-carbon economy, were judged to be 'world-leading'. Further information is given on the department's website. The aims of the PhD programme are: to enable students of high calibre to pursue their education at an advanced applied level, drawing on the primary disciplines of economics, planning and environmental policy, with additional specialisms in finance and law to provide students with opportunities both to build on and develop material which they may have studied at the undergraduate level as well as to broaden their knowledge base to provide opportunities for education in a multidisciplinary environment so as to advance the understanding of cognate disciplines and their applications to provide opportunities for learning with colleagues from different social, economic and legal systems to provide students with appropriate skills and experience to enable them to use information and resources critically and to equip them with the means to undertake their own research to provide an educational environment with a strong research ethos that brings together students from a wide variety of backgrounds and fosters an international approach to common problems.

Department of Land Economy