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Our postgraduate degrees

Connected Environments MSc
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Connected Environments MSc

Focuses on building, coding, and deploying devices to sense, communicate, and analyse data related to our built and natural environments. 

Urban Spatial Science MSc
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Urban Spatial Science MSc

Offers a multi-disciplinary and critical perspective on approaches to understanding, monitoring and improving global urban resilience and sustainability.

Urban Spatial Science MRes
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Urban Spatial Science MRes

Explores the theoretical, social and scientific foundations of the modern built environment through a geo-spatial, data-oriented lens.

Urban Spatial Science Degree Apprenticeship MSc
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Urban Spatial Science Degree Apprenticeship MSc

Candidates must have a sponsoring employer based in England, who will employ them in a spatial data science or geographic information science role.

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis MPhil/PhD
CASA-Research

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis MPhil/PhD

This programme is ideal for students interested in modelling the diverse social and physical aspects of cities.

Part-Time and Modular/Flexible Study
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Part-Time and Modular/Flexible Study

Our degree courses can be taken on a full-time, part-time and Modular/Flexible basis.

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Funding and scholarships
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Funding and scholarships

A range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies are available.

Inside The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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Inside The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

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Professor Duncan Wilson

Connected Environments MSc

Click to email. d.j.wilson@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr Duncan Smith

Urban Spatial Science MSc/MRes

Click to email. duncan.a.smith@ucl.ac.uk
Andrew Mclachlan

Dr Andrew Maclachlan

Urban Spatial Science Degree Apprenticeship MSc

Click to email. a.maclachlan@ucl.ac.uk