Department of Geography
Through our teaching and research, we aim to challenge both ourselves and our diverse student body to achieve new methods of analysing, representing, and understanding the interconnected geographies of the environmental and anthropogenic transformations across the Earth.
News and Events
19 Feb 2026
Conference of Irish Geographers May 2026
The 2026 Conference of Irish Geographers (CIG) will take place this coming May 6-8 at University College Cork. Under the theme Connected Environments: Integration and Rebellion, the conference invites participants to engage, collaborate and rethink how geographical knowledge is produced and shared.
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19 Mar 2025
Geography Ranking
Geography Department has ranked in the global QS ranking for the first time.
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05 Sep 2024
ESA Academy scholarship
The ESA Academy Academic Scholarship programme aims to facilitate the access to space-related European academic programmes of tertiary education institutions by covering the tuition fees of selected students from ESA Member States, Associate Member States and Canada to complement their academic knowledge and better prepare them for a space-related career. In this frame, the ESA Education Office is offering 2 scholarships to attend the 2024-2025 edition of the MSc Geoinformatics.
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07 May 2024
Lifetime Contribution Award
Professor Willie Smyth (UCC) receives the Geographical Society of Ireland’s ‘Lifetime Contribution Award- 2024’.
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