BA (Hons) Geography with Transport Studies Bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds

You'll learn about the dynamic nature of urban and economic geography, exploring the geography of cities and urban settlements and their constitution by environmental, economic, social and political processes through time and space across different geopolitical landscapes, with emphasis on the Global South. Particular attention is paid to planetary urbanisation, urban planning, systems of collective consumption, housing and the welfare state, service and retail economy, neoliberal globalisation,

Explore the significant environmental challenges facing humanity and the wider biosphere from both human and physical geography perspectives, such as climate change and global warming, biodiversity loss and species extinction, deforestation and desertification, flooding and extreme weather, food and energy shortages, and resource and territory conflicts that generate climate refugees. You'll learn how to evaluate the range of political responses and potential solutions at different scales, asses

This exciting module is a beginner's guide to the important and rapidly changing world of geographical data analysis that blends new digital, mobile and spatial technologies with core numerical skills and conceptual understandings of how space and spatial relationships can be represented. You'll learn core practical skills essential to geography in the 21st century, including geographic information systems (computer cartography), data collection, data handling, data visualisation, hypothesis tes

Everybody needs to use the transport system as part of their daily lives and so we all have opinions about it based on our own personal experiences. But it is a much greater challenge to be able to see 'the big picture', as this requires a deeper understanding of: how current transport systems have evolved; what impacts they have on society, the economy and people's lives; and what factors may help or hinder how we are able to travel in the future. This module will introduce you to a range of ap

This module is for students interested in the power and the limitations of transport policy and planning as it is enacted in the real world. It provides a framework for exploring the evidence about different transport policies, drawing on cases from the UK and throughout the world, highlighting instances of good practice and areas of difficulty. In doing so, we seek to facilitate students' active engagement with live transport policy developments in local, national and global contexts.

This is an essential training programme for human geography students in the fundamentals of devising, conducting and writing up qualitative research so you're equipped to conduct your own final year independent research project. You'll first learn about the core ideas and scientific approaches underpinning human geography and be trained in the key skills of compiling, summarising and critically analysing different literatures and data sources. This is followed by training in research design, met

This module provides human geography students with essential training in quantitative analysis such as social data statistics, spatial data analysis and the theory behind Geographical Information Systems (GIS). You'll develop advanced skills in collecting, summarising, and manipulating data as well as exploring spatial data relationships through overlay analysis, sieve mapping, cluster analysis and classification, heatmaps, spatial trends, data projections, network analyses, digital elevation mo

This module provides you with a suite of insights, skills and experiences that will better prepare you for how to use your geography degree in your future career. This includes: developing a professional CV; what to expect at graduate scheme selection days; understanding how the diverse skills possessed by geographers can be most effectively presented to employers; enhanced understanding of the range of employment and other opportunities available to geographers, and how geographical skills can

This module develops your understanding of transport and travel and how it interacts with society at large, from the perspective of social sustainability. Guided by lectures and participatory workshops, you'll understand the dynamic ways in which transport and travel influence and are influenced by society, and how transport policy, provision and use, in light of politics, protest and community engagement, represent an opportunity to create sustainable futures. For example, by understanding the

Using a range of case studies, this module highlights the importance of understanding the diverse characteristics of people and place for how transport is experienced and provided in local and global contexts. By addressing the social and spatial factors influencing and influenced by transport and travel, and by exploring the range of transport and travel cultures at play across society, this module engages with creating sustainable futures and understanding power and conflict.

This module develops your understanding of the fundamental principles of transport economics including the characteristics and determination of demand, transport cost structures, pricing and resource allocation, and allows you to apply economics to investigate current issues across both public and private transport. Focus is placed on the role of economics in reducing the social and environmental costs associated with transport, with particular emphasis on options such as congestion charging to

This module explores the relationships between transport systems and spatial patterns of human activity and development, which is critical to the successful planning of human environments to move us towards more efficient, sustainable and equitable societies. We consider key theoretical concepts (eg 'accessibility') and real world evidence, try to demystify 'sustainable development', investigate the role of spatial analysis and modelling, introduce relevant planning theories, and discuss how we

This module studies the major impacts of transport on, and interactions with, energy, climate change and the environment at a local and global level, in the context of liveability and sustainability. Students will have the chance to consider policies and mitigation methods to reduce or eliminate the effects of transport as well as formal modelling and environmental impact assessment techniques and how these have been applied in practice to help make decisions about transport.

This module will give you an understanding of – and practical skills in - the methods used to inform and support a range of different decisions, for example, how public authorities and private businesses approach investment decisions for infrastructure projects or on energy policy. Concepts, theory, practical methods and case studies are included.