Urban Studies at Glasgow is widely recognised as a world-leading centre for innovative, interdisciplinary urban research with high international impact. The UK funding council ranked us joint 1st in the UK in research excellence in the Research Assessment Framework (REF, 2014), with 100% of our output assessed as internationally excellent or better. We are multi-disciplinary in research approach and a PhD in Urban Studies will allow you to develop excellent skills in research methods and theory as well as engaging with pressing real-world problems that affect cities. You will have the opportunity to be supervised by internationally acclaimed scholars. Our strengths include: Big data, GIS, transport modelling, urban analytics. Educational inequalities and outcomes for young people. Housing, planning, real estate, regeneration, urban design. Public policy, welfare reform, health and health inequalities. Smart/future cities, challenges facing cities in the developing world. Systems of governance, communities and participation.If you study with us you will have the opportunity to join a large, stimulating community of PhD students and benefit from engagement with major funded research centres, long-term research projects and will be able to join our long-established research groups.A PhD in Urban Studies can be taken as a 1 plus 3 programme in conjunction with an ESRC-recognised MRes programme (MRes in Urban Research or MRes Public Policy Research).