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School of Geography and the Environment

 School of Geography and the Environment

Research: Transformations

People

Co-ordinating Team

  • Dr Craig Jeffrey
    Cluster Co-ordinator
  • Position Vacant
    Postdoctoral Representative
  • Amrita Hari
    Postgraduate Representative
  • Esther Rootham
    Postgraduate Representative

Staff Members

Graduate Research Students

The Transormations research cluster also has a number of graduate research students actively involved in current research.

  • Victoria Arnold
    Religiosity and religious culture in post-Soviet Russia: the role of sacred spaces
  • Yonique Campbell
    Security sector reform in a developing country context: the case of Jamaica
  • Pin-Hsien Chen
    The reform of pension systems in Taiwan
  • Justin Dargin
    A carbon market for the Gulf - the development of an optimal carbon trading platform to regulate carbon emissions in the Gulf cooperation council
  • Dorothee Franzen
    Impact of regulation on the asset investment of defined benefit pension funds
  • Alexandra Girard
    Socio-economic implications of traditional and non-traditional water storage systems in Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, India
  • Heather Hachigian
    Governance frameworks for responsible investing: the case of sovereign sponsored funds.
  • Amrita Hari
    Migration of Indian immigrants in Canada
  • Nicholas Howarth
    The economics and politics of energy and climate change
  • Leander Kandilige
    Transnationalism and the African diaspora: a case study of the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK
  • Ting-Yu Kang
    Internet transnational communication and diasporic nationalism: imaging China in online community
  • Andrea Koelbel
    Potentials and limitations of urban migration, in the context of education. Investigations on the case of Nepal
  • Irem Kok
    Transparency and corporate governance: a comparative study of shale gas controversies in the US and UK
  • Eelke Kraak
    Dams of Damocles: between rivers, states and geopolitics
  • Aaron Krolikowski
    Mobile-enabled payments for water service in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: innovations, impacts, and implications
  • Tanya Kumar
    Privatising Mumbai: a study of the impact of privatization on the residents of Mumbai's airport
  • Christopher Lander
    The social and environmental impact of foreign direct investment on modern farming and agriculture in post-Soviet regions
  • Eveliina Lyytinen
    The politics of space in the governance of urban refugees in Kampala, Uganda
  • Caitlin McElroy
    Corporate social responsibility in the extractive and energy industries: effects on resource use and indigenous development
  • Alex Money
    Corporate water risk: a concept in search of consensus
  • Amber Murrey-Ndewa
    An analysis of spatial and structural violence along the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline
  • Robert Fleming Puckett
    The strange case of the landed poor: a decade of continued poverty, community divisions, and frustrated attempts by outsiders to mobilise San Bushman communities to establish long-term livelihoods on their new lands in South Africa
  • Tanzil Rahman
    Maintaining competitiveness in the global market for skilled migrants
  • Sahar Romani
    Youth post-NGO: development and experiments in growing up in India
  • Dane Rook
    Sustainable investment beliefs: behavioural ecologies of expectation and long-term decision making
  • Esther Rootham
    The social organisation of the labour market experiences of youth in the Banlieues in Paris - three years after the 2005 uprisings
  • Rajiv Sharma
    The role of private institutional investors in developing urban infrastructure assets
  • Sarah Stillman
    Mapping the 'Missing White Girl Syndrome': a gendered geography of peril
  • Justin van der Merwe
    African attitudes towards South Africa: understanding South Africa's soft power in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Marcus Wachtmeister
    Modal changes in environmental policy instruments of China's transport sector
  • Christiane Wirth Forsberg
    Access to employment and housing for new migrants: exploring the limits of local governance
  • Yin Yang
    Assessment and governance of urban infrastructure for meeting the challenges of climate change - case studies of London and Beijing
  • Haiyan (Helen) Yu
    Sustainable water management for water and food security in a changing world: a comparative study between arid rural communities of China and India

Research Associates

The Transformations research cluster also hosts visiting researchers throughout the year and has a number of associated and affiliated non-resident researchers.