Find out more about Brunel University of London
Find out about geography at Brunel University of London
Brunel University of London offers the following outreach and engagement opportunities for schools, students and teachers:
Ambassadors programme
If you are interested in having a Brunel Student Ambassador visit your school to talk about studying Geography at university, please contact us.
Events and lectures
2025 Taster Days: Wednesday 26 March and Monday 7 July. These are pitched at Year 11/12/13 students and offer a series of interactive workshops that introduce students to the breadth of disciplines within Brunel’s Department of Social and Political Sciences, including Anthropology, Criminology, Geography, Global Challenges, History, Journalism, Media and Communications, Politics and Sociology. Students can choose from several talks and workshops from each subject.
Visits to and from schools
The Geography Department welcomes school visits, please contact Nicola (details below) to find out more.
Their staff are also happy to visit schools to give talks. Possible talks include:
- Carbon colonialism
- When the sky is no longer the limit: A critical perspective on geoengineering
- Who will fold the reusable nappies? On gender and the climate struggle
- Clashing tactics, clashing generations: the politics of the school strikes for climate
- Too many people? Why it is too easy to blame climate change on population growth
- Carbon trading and the smokescreen of net zero
- Inside the climate summits: fossil fuel and other geo-politics
- Now or never? Doomsday scenarios and the climate clock
- Why study cities?
- International aid: a step toward global justice or a colonial project?
- Can Geography and Geographers change the world?
- Life in Lesotho: how changing demands for resources have shaped a nation state
- Geopolitics of D/development
- How to lie with (Google) maps
- Towards a globalised sense of place
- Societies of control
- “Anti-Slavery”: An imperial project
Open days
Find out more about open day dates using our Directory of Open Days
Scholarships, funding and opportunities
See Brunel's website for scholarship information.
Brunel has study abroad exchange partnerships with a number of overseas institutions. Geography students are currently able to spend one or two semesters of their second year at York University in Canada or Curtin University in Australia.
They also have several work placement options including both thick and compressed sandwich degrees.
