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Welcome to the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture! SGPA is a vibrant, multidisciplinary School with extensive teaching and research programs covering the fields of Geography, Environmental Management, Planning and Development, Property Studies, Project Management and Architecture. The School offers a wide range of undergraduate programs including professionally accredited Bachelors degrees in Architecture, Regional and Town Planning, and Real Estate and Development, a Bachelors of Environmental Management, and contributes to Bachelors degrees in Arts and Science. It also offers a suite of Masters degrees by coursework, and postgraduate training in research via the Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy. The School has a strong research profile. It supports research activity across all of its fields of expertise, organised into a number of research groups and formally constituted Research Centres. It enjoys a considerable success rate in nationally competitive grants, and its staff participate in seven Cooperative Research Centres. Staff and graduate students have a solid record of high quality publications. Undergraduate student numbers in 2007 stood at 771 (EFTSL) with a further 117 students enrolled in postgraduate coursework and 53 in research higher degrees. The current staffing complement consists of 35.5 academic positions including three Professors and seven Associate Professors, supported by seventeen technical and administrative staff. There are a growing number of research appointments associated with the Research Centres and CRCs, and the School has made a range of adjunct appointments from leaders in government and the professions. The School occupies a substantial part of two buildings on the St Lucia Campus (Zelman Cowen and Chamberlain) and has a smaller presence in a third (Computer Science). It has three substantial computer laboratories, extensive studio facilities, a design laboratory, and a new physical geography laboratory.