Gateway Antarctica

Gateway Antarctica

Postgraduate Research

Below are our preferred Postgraduate (Masters and PhD) research topics for students to undertake; however if you have a specific area of interest that is not covered here, or you already have a research topic in mind, please contact the Centre Director Professor Bryan Storey to discuss developing a research topic to suit your area of interest. See here for information related specifically to PhD study.


  • Antarctic/transpolar geopolitics
  • Antarctic tourism
  • Antarctic environmental management
  • Antarctic cultural geography, including Antarctic values, means of human engagement with Antarctica and nationalism in Antarctica

Contact: Dr Daniela Liggett

  • Life in extreme environments
  • Ecosystem response to climate change
  • Antarctic invasive species
  • Meltwater ecosystems and habitats
  • Iconic habitats of inland Antarctica
    Contact: Professor Ian Hawes
    Click here for further information

     

    Remote sensing of the cryosphere related to:
  • mass balance of ice shelves, ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice
  • ice dynamics
  • snow accumulation
  • ice thickness measurements
  • validation of remotely sensed data in Antarctica

Contact: Dr Wolfgang Rack