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Department of Human Geography

Post-Graduate Programme in Geography with a Specialization in Human Geography

The Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, offers a Post-Graduate Programme in Geography with a Specialization in Human Geography.

Human geography studies human activities from a spatial perspective. This means that human geographers are interested in societal processes, including spatial planning, and their spatial aspects, such as the spatial distribution, context, interaction between different places, space as a physical location or as a social construction, created by social relations.

 

Eligibility Requirements

Admission to the Third Cycle, the post-graduate (doctoral) level, requires that applicants meet both general and specific entry requirements. The general requirements are:

  1. a university Second Cycle (master) degree, or
  2. 240 Swedish higher education credits, of which a minimum of 60 credits must be Second Cycle courses, or
  3. the equivalent.

The language used at the programme is either English or Swedish. Accordingly, the specific entry requirements are good knowledge and skills in either the Swedish or the English language, and a minimum of 90 credits in Human Geography, or equivalent, including a degree project of at least 15 credits. Additional details can be found in the curriculum.

 

Application Deadline

The Department of Human Geography fixed dates for applications are April 1 (main) and November 15 (extra). If there is funding available the Department will announce the positions some time before these dates.

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Contact

Director of Doctoral Studies
Dominic Power

Professor

dominic.power@su.se
08-16 48 39

Profile page

Dominic Power
  • Visiting address

  • The Geo-Science Building, room X401

  • Svante Arrhenius väg 8, Frescati

Last updated: September 4, 2025

Source: Department of Human Geography

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