  The study of galaxies has changed dramatically over the past few decades with
the advent of large-scale astronomical surveys. These large collaborative
efforts have made available high-quality imaging and spectroscopy of hundreds
of thousands of systems, providing a body of observations which has
significantly enhanced our understanding not only of cosmology and large-scale
structure in the universe but also of the astrophysics of galaxy formation and
evolution. Throughout these changes, one thing that has remained constant is
the role of galaxy morphology as a clue to understanding galaxies. But
obtaining morphologies for large numbers of galaxies is challenging; this
topic, "Morphology in the era of large surveys", was the subject of a recent
discussion meeting at the Royal Astronomical Society, and this "Astronomy and
Geophysics" article is a report on that meeting.
