School of People, Environment and Planning

Welcome to the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, New Zealand. The School comprises staff with expertise in the following broad areas:

• Development Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Museum Studies
• Politics
• Resource and Environmental Planning
• Social Anthropology
• Social Sector Evaluation Research
• Sociology
• Women's Studies

The School of People, Environment and Planning offers a range of undergraduate degrees (BA and BSc) and majors (Geography, Social Anthropology, Environmental Studies) are offered reflecting the broad range of expertise in the School. In addition there are the professionally accredited Bachelor of Resource and Environmental Planning (BRP) and Master of Resource and Environmental Planning (MRP) degrees. An interdisciplinary Environmental Studies programme is also based within the School.

Postgraduate study at the Masters and PhD levels is an option in all the programmes and the School has large graduate numbers in some areas. There is also a specialised programme in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The School has the widest range of 'pure' and ’applied’ social science subjects in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as offering professional and semi-professional programmes. Our staff are active in research and much of this research is based on ’Field’ work as varied as field work in Palestine to field work in the glaciers of the South Island of New Zealand.

Dr. Allanah Ryan

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Last updated on Friday 04 November 2011