The School of Earth and Environment has one of the largest research clusters of Earth, environmental and social scientists in the UK and internationally. Our research mission is to combine world-class Earth and environmental sciences with environmental social sciences in both fundamental and applied research.

The University of Leeds is one of the UK's leading research universities and, in the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008), 70% of the School of Earth and Environment's research was judged to be internationally outstanding/excellent placing us in the top 10 in the country in this category. A high proportion of our staff was submitted for this RAE and, in terms of volume, this means that for our research area our School has the 2nd highest number of internationally excellent researchers in the UK.

Each year we recruit around 40 highly motivated and able graduate students who are committed to becoming independent researchers. If you have, or are expecting to graduate with a First or Upper Second Class degree (or equivalent), we would welcome an application from you. We are also particularly interested in applications from Masters students.

The School has a very stimulating, diverse, and cosmopolitan research community within a large research-led University; around a third of our students are international or from other countries within the EU.