Postgraduate Studies

Students interested in the MSc in Global Migration should click here.

Applications are welcomed from graduate students wanting to pursue a PhD in the fields of migration, transnationalism and disasporas. Areas of interest include:

• Asylum and Refugees

• Migration by the Highly Skilled
• Brain Drains, Gains and Exchanges
• Return Migration
• The Migration of Children
• Migration Information Systems
• Labour Migration
• Migrant Trafficking and Human Smuggling
• Transnationalism and diaspora identities and networks
• Residential Segregation
• Ethnicity classifications and statistics 
• Spatial analysis of ethnicity, migration and mobility

Potential students should first contact the staff member of the MRU whose research most matches their own interests or email mru@geog.ucl.ac.uk.

For further details of postgraduate funding and applications procedures see the postgraduate pages on the main geography website.