Often taking an interdisplinary approach, our main research activities fall into four main themes, details below:

• Resources and Livelihoods
• Institutions and Governance
• Trade and Integration
• Social Economics

Staff in the department are actively engaged in research across a range of contemporary issues. Our work is centred on applied and policy-relevant research questions and is widely published in leading journals and by major publishers. Our research underpins the courses we teach and helps shape the development of our degree courses and knowledge-transfer activities.

We have a commitment to providing high quality support and training for research students and welcome applications to register for a PhD in any of our areas of interest.

You can view some of our research outputs by following the links to the Research Papers and Research Briefing series on the right