Current Graduate Research

Current Graduate Research Students
Recent Students (since 2006)

Current Graduate Research Students

Michael 't Sas-Rolfes	Conflicting framings in global conservation governance: Consequences for African megafauna Supervisors: Dr Dustin Garrick; Dr Laurence Wainwright Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Maryam Altaf	Gendered Mobilities and Platform-based Transport Services in Lahore, Pakistan Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Dr Debbie Hopkins Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Bailey Anderson	The effects of land cover changes on streamflow in the United States; a large sample statistical attribution approach. Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Louise Slater Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Andrew Armstrong	Revenue patterns of piped water services in rural Africa Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Dr Johanna Koehler Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Mari Arold	Looping forest: Analogue and digital mediations of landscape and identities in post-Soviet Estonia Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Moritz Baer	Climate Risks and the Financial System - The role of climate-stress testing for central banks and financial regulators Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Tim Baxter	Biodiversity and bioprotection of historic maritime structures: a possible win-win? Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Martin Coombes Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Olivia Becher	Stress testing large-scale water system resilience: a multi-risk framework for guiding adaptation Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Raghav Pant Research cluster: Climate Systems
Giulia Belloni	The role of the smart city in Europe: Bristol and Florence in Re-plicate 2020 Supervisor: Professor Gillian Rose Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Iqbal Singh Bhalla	The distribution and ecosystem services of insectivorous bats in Indian rice plantations Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Konstantin Born	Circular economy and eco-innovation in the mining sector Supervisors: Dr Caitlin McElroy; Dr Alex Money Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Dáire Browne	Breathing Stones - developing laser spectroscopic methods to study moisture uptake and release by historic limestone in polluted urban environments Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles; Professor Grant Ritchie (Department of Chemistry) Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Joris Bücker	Long term (economic) policy tools based on complexity economics and the non-linear planetary impact of climate change Supervisor: Dr Matt Ives; Prof. Doyne Farmer Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Marcus Buechel	Comprehending changing climate and landscape influence on hydrological systems Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Louise Slater Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Andrea Byfuglien	A behavioural perspective on decisions around land use: on social influence, risk, and collective action Supervisors: Dr Mark Hirons; Dr Stefania Innocenti Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Thomas Caton Harrison	Variability of the dust-emitting low-level jet in the central and western Sahara through boreal summer Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter Research cluster: Climate Systems
Sangwon Chae	The Shifting Urban Paradigm and the Politics of Alternative Urban Place-Making: a case study on Seoul, South Korea Supervisor: Dr Alex Vasudevan Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Ho-Yin (Tommy) Chan	Towards resilient cities, communities and individuals: Cutting across the top-down-bottom-up dichotomy through citizen initiatives in everyday transport practices and planning Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Dr Anna Plyushteva Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Rachael Chan	The Staging of Indigeneity in Taiwan as a Geopolitical Strategy Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Dr Hannah Fair Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Yi-Ting Chang	From geo- to astropolitics: How Taiwan constructs vertical territory within the global satellite network Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Ian Klinke Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Changsoon Choi	Climate-smart green infrastructure Supervisors: Dr Pam Berry; Alison Smith Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Nicholas Chow	Fostering Effective Climate Change Governance to Enable Resilient Infrastructure Service Provision Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Tina Christmann	Remote sensing to assess ecosystem change and restoration in tropical mountain ecosystems Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Alex Clark	Stranded states: Public management of fossil fuel assets in the international system Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Sergio Henrique Collaço de Carvalho	Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Kerry Constabile	Urban 100% Renewable Energy Pathways: Assessing the drivers that shift grids from Brown to Green Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Cheli Cresswell	Using big data and citizen science to map geographic and temporal trends in human-elephant conflict in Asia
David Crowhurst	Dynamics Controlling the Seasonal Cycle of Congo Basin Evaporation Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Professor Simon Dadson Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Maria Dance	The influence of Holocene sea-ice variability on Arctic biota: using the past to predict the future Supervisor: Professor Marc Macias-Fauria; Dr Erin Saupe (Earth Sciences) Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Michael Davis	From Transit Oriented Development to People Oriented Development: a Fresh Look at Medium Sized Cities in Latin America Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Paulo de Souza	Can society and corporations share the same perspective on sustainability? Should they? Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Jennifer Dodsworth	Locating Communities in Digital Natures: Exploring the Politics of National Parks, Identity and Visual Social Media in the Lake District. Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research clusters: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Gaurav Dubey	Political economy of low carbon mobility transitions - the case of electric mobility in India Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Jakob Engel	The political economy of commodity trading: Industrial organisation, regulation and regional development Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Sophie Erfurth	Governing Common Pool Resources in Fragile Political Systems: Modelling Behaviour, Institutions and Social-Ecological Dynamics Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Joshua Ettinger	Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Examining the Role of Attribution Science in Building Support for Climate Action Supervisors: Dr Pete Walton; Professor Friederike Otto; Dr James Painter Research cluster: Climate Systems
Safa Fanaian	Rivers and cities: exploring their complex water-risk and its governance Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick Research cluster: Climate Systems
Adam Ferris	Studying decision architecture to find key behavioural intervention measures for increased traction in green consumption Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Stefania Innocenti Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Rob Ferritto	Using a feminist ethic of care to evaluate women's engagement with digital economy in Ethiopia Supervisor: Professor Katrina Charles
Bill Finnegan	Education in the climate emergency: Smart grids, digital storytelling and the quest for net-zero schools in the UK Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Dr Tina Fawcett
Ella Fleming	Assessing the intersection of climate change and emerging conflict in the Sahel and East Africa Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick; Dr Timothy Clack (Archaeology) Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Bruno Friedel	Delivering cohousing for a carbon and resource constrained world, what role for community groups, what role for the state Supervisor: Dr Alex Vasudevan Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Lena I. Fuldauer	Climate-resilient system transitions to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Sarah Gall	Exploring land-use trade-offs in a rapidly changing economic and policy environment Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Michael Obersteiner Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Matteo Gasparini	Exploring the role of financial institutions in the low carbon transition and the implications for financial stability Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Matt Ives
Blen Taye Gemeda	A holistic approach to diagnosing the deterioration of rock-hewn structures in Lalibela, Ethiopia Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Gina Gilson	Governing informal water markets in Eastern Africa Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Trisha Gopalakrishna	Forest Restoration in India: Opportunities and Realities Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Carolina Gueiros	Forest Governance in the Brazilian Amazon: Policy Change and Innovation to Curb Deforestation Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Constance McDermott Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Wenbo Guo	Mobility, subjective well-being and health in transitional China: towards socially sustainable cities Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Professor Tim Schwanen Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Robyn Haggis	Nature-based solutions to sustainable infrastructure development for the achievement of the global agendas of the SDGs and Paris Agreement Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Nathalie Seddon Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Yifan Han	A demand atlas for the planning, operations and upgrading of bicycle-sharing systems Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Oscar Hartman Davies	Environmental sentinels and the more-than-human practices and politics of sensing the European and North American Arctic Supervisors: Professor Jamie Lorimer; Professor Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Tiger Hills	Practicing Reconciliation: Producing Peace? Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Dr Alex Vasudevan Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Dong-Li Hong	Atmosphere as a means of governing life: weather modification and ecological conservation in Sanjiangyuan, China Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Rosie Huck	Modelling landscape response to environmental change in susceptible drylands Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Climate Systems
Raffaele Ippolito	Global Environmental (in)Activism: An Ethnography of Pollution, Illness and Community Resistance in Italy and Taiwan Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Professor Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Luis Iturra	Exploring urban inequality through unveiling uneven atmospheres in everyday mobility practices Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion	Affective experiences in radical housing alternatives: The cases of Barcelona, Berlin and Rome Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Alex Vasudevan Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Jimmy Jia	A new tool for energy and environmental valuation to improve decision making for capital deployment of climate-resilient infrastructure Supervisors: Dr Ben Caldecott; Dr Nicola Ranger; Dr Abrar Chaudhury Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Kristina Kaempfer	Financial Elites and the Spatial Variation of Inequality: Examining the Intersection of Gender, Race and Class in Frankfurt, London and New York City Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Abdul Wahid Khan	The Blessings of the Commons (Muzhayo) for the Local Community and More-than-Humans of Chitral, Pakistan and the Influence of Neoliberal and Nationalization Projects: An Apocalypse of a Culturalscape Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn; Dr Abrar Chaudhury Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions
Nameerah Khan	Bangladesh's arsenic crisis: Navigating the complexities of the science-policy interface of water quality and health Supervisors: Professor Katrina Charles; Dr Sonia Hoque Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Tarek Kheir Eddine	The impact of confessional politics and socio-economic stratification on the use and development of public spaces in Lebanon Supervisor: Professor Fiona McConnell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
James A. King	Rainfall Dynamics and Change in East Africa: Tackling the 'Climate Paradox' Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter Research cluster: Climate Systems
Katie Kowal	Leveraging Drought Prediction for Enhanced Preparedness in the Central American Dry Corridor Supervisor: Dr Louise Slater
Tonny Kukeera	Holistic Business Models: Connecting Electricity Access to Sustainable Development Supervisor: Dr Aoife Brophy Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Sieun Lee	Caring in the night-time city: filling the spatio-temporal gaps in childcare Supervisors: Dr Jennie Middleton; Dr Anna Plyushteva Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Faryal Leghari	Could displacement have brought about a pronounced role for women refugees from patriarchal pastoral communities in a geopolitically strategic region? A study of women refugees in South Waziristan in Northwestern Pakistan post-conflict Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions
Anaïs Lemyre	Human-environmental analysis of wellbeing and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic Supervisor: Dr Janey Messina Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Sabrina Li	Human-Environment Interactions on Infectious Disease Risk in Brazil Supervisor: Dr Janey Messina; Prof Oliver Pybus (Zoology) Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Jin Hee Lim	Infrastructural intersection and everyday experiences of state and status in Northern Thailand. Supervisors: Dr Ian Klinke; Professor Fiona McConnell Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Yi Fan Liu	Disaggregating the BlueSG assemblage: Examining the productions and negotiations of user (im)mobilities and agency in Singapore's electric vehicle sharing service Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Sina Maghami Nick	The meaning of nomadism for Bakhtiari mobile pastoralists in the Zagros Mountains of Iran Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Environmental Interactions
Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul	Understanding West African cocoa smallholders' adaption to drought: assessing interactions between institutions, poverty and resilience Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott; Dr Mark Hirons Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Alexander Manby	Geographies of Naga (Inter)nationalism 1946-2022 Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Dr Sneha Krishnan Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Diana Mastracci	How can information communication technology (ICT) assist Inupiaq hunters to respond/adapt to rapid climate change? Barrow, Alaska a case study Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Ian Maybury	From books to bricks: hyperspectral imaging for heritage Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Hibba Mazhary	Distancing death: welfare, slaughter and consumption in the British halal meat industry Supervisor: Professor Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Alex Midlen	The making of a global blue economy ‘governmentality’? Alternative futures in governance of marine resources. Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Anca Mihalache	Time-varying electricity tariffs policy design: an integrated approach Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Samuel Miller McDonald	Egalitarian Energy: Challenges to Neoliberal Discourse in Distributed Community Energy Programs Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Aoife Brophy Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Helen Morrissey	Data and governance in South Africa's paratransit industry Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Medha Mukherjee	Intersectional Inequalities and Rural Drinking Water Choices in India Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions
Jelani Munroe	Can austerity transform the public sector and services for its citizens? Lessons from Jamaica and the IMF since 2010 Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Max Nathanson	Defining Climate Security: the Root Causes of US-Bound Migration since NAFTA Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Emily Neil	Assessing the impacts of rewilding at the Knepp Estate, UK, using ensemble ecosystem and agent-based models Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Dr Ernesto Carrella Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Environmental Interactions
Maike Nowatzki	Exploring Morphology and Morphological Drivers of Dunefields using Deep Learning and Remote Sensing Approaches Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Adam Packer	Governing Oxfordshire’s smart city and innovation-led growth agenda: What is the role of citizens? Supervisor: Professor Gillian Rose Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Pirta Palola	Towards integrated land-sea management: mapping and modelling ecological connectivity in tropical coastal environments Supervisor: Dr Lisa Wedding Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Clive Parkinson	Automobility as 'Dispositif' in Contemporary China Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Dr Anna Plyushteva Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Adam Parr	Law and regeneration in seventeenth-century England Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Amelia Paszkowski	The Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta: a study into the adaptability of the delta system to flood risk in a changing climate Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Ignacio Perez	Examining the role of data in smart city management: following the transport data dispositif in Santiago de Chile Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Professor Gillian Rose Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Rebecca Peters	Bringing back Golden Bangladesh: Regulation, institutions, and the political economy of river pollution Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Laura Picot	Food crops and the role of farmers' gender and intersectional identities in shaping climate resilience in Ghana Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Elena Pierard	Anticipating sustainability transitions: how energy majors engage with cleaner technologies Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Aoife Brophy Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Mihaela-Claudia Pop	Income Composition Inequality from Socialism to Capitalism Supervisors: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Dr Stefanos Ioannou Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Carter Powis	A multi-disciplinary analysis of the role of transient negative emissions in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Steve Smith Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Kat Rahmat	Elephant Time: Multi-Temporality as Attunement with More-Than-Human Others Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Camila Ramos	Transport-related social exclusion: A study on minimum standards and thresholds through the lens of accessibility Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Xiyu Ren	The impact of the energy transition on the economy: studies on the pattern and the relationship between policy contexts, firm decisions and innovation choices Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr François Lafond Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
José Luis Reséndiz	Transition finance and sustainability-linked assets: metrics and incentive structures Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott
Ian Robertson	A Framework for Responsible Investment, with particular focus on proxy voting Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof Professor Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, Continuing Education Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Kathryn Royce	Preservation of geological collections Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Kenta Sayama	From datapoints to heritage recognition -establishing geoheritage and geocultural values of Quaternary palaeoenvironmental sites in South-east Arabia Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Ash Parton; Prof Adrian Parker Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Carlota Segura Garcia	Characterising the fire regimes of the Brazilian savannas under large-scale land-use expansion and climate change Supervisor: Dr Imma Oliveras Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Sandra Serumaga-Zake	Water Infrastructure Finance in sub-Saharan Africa Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Dr Alex Money Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Marcus Spiegel	Influence of reindeer herbivory on carbon cycle dynamics in a changing climate on the Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia, Russia Supervisor: Professor Marc Macias-Fauria Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Sugandha Srivastav	Essays on the post-carbon transition Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Theo Stanley	The epistemic politics of nature-based solutions: Knowing carbon in Scottish land governance Supervisors: Professor Jamie Lorimer; Professor Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Simphiwe Laura Stewart	A comparative political geography of populism: the rise of the EFF (in South Africa) and the Rassemblement National (in France) 1990 - 2019. Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Danny Dorling Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Rupert Stuart-Smith	Attribution science in the courts: establishing the liability of greenhouse gas emitters for climate change damages Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Professor Friederike Otto; Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (Climate Analytics) Research cluster: Climate Systems
Sarah Hui Ann Tan	Hazy memories: Exploring the relationship between 'eco-social histories' and risk perception through the lived experience of haze pollution in Malaysia Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Ariell Ahearn Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Vance Z H Tan	Strategic assessment of long-term plans for adaptation to flood risk at a national scale Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Nina Teng	Examining Trust in Shared Mobility: The Case of On-Demand Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing in Southeast Asia Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Pisca Tias	Empirical assessment of the interlinkages between forest ecosystem provisioning services and rural community resilience and adaptation to climate change Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Jasper Verschuur	Vulnerability and resilience of global port infrastructure and dependent supply-chains to natural disasters Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Elco Koks (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Johannes Wagner	Research project on Rural Water Finance in Africa, with fieldwork in rural Mali and in cooperation with UDUMA. Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Natasha Wallum	Determining controls on aeolian dust emissions: analysis of dynamic processes at Etosha Pan, Namibia Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Ella Walsh	Late Quaternary hydrological change from valley fill complexes in Namibia Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Sallie Burrough Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Annie E.A. Welden	Animal Infrastructure: The animals enrolled as Nature-based Solutions Supervisors: Professor Jamie Lorimer; Professor Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Charles Wight	Scarcity and Scale: Designing Water Markets for People and the Environment Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Environmental Interactions
Christian Wilson	Paris Aligned Portfolios and the Real Economy Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Sam Woor	The evolution of Late Quaternary alluvial landscapes in northern Oman Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Ash Parton Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Ivin Yeo	The digitally mediated city: rethinking posthuman urban life and wellbeing through Singapore's smart green and blue spaces Supervisors: Professor Beth Greenhough; Professor Gillian Rose Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Shiv Yucel	Improving Extreme Heat Resilience: Measuring Inequalities in Access to Relief Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Huanyuan Zhang	Calculate tropical NPP by upscaling empirical findings from plot-level forest inventory to a larger scale Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras; Professor Iain Colin Prentice (Imperial College London) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Zhaoqi (Eric) Zhou	Understanding cycling infrastructure and practice in Shenzhen, China Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Recent Students (since 2006)

Galina Alova Completed in 2022	The low-carbon transition of the global electricity sector Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Pablo Astudillo-Estévez Completed in 2022	Path dependence, reinforcement mechanisms and economic complexity in commodity-exporting countries Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Paola Castaneda Completed in 2022	How is the bike made mobile? Learning from bicycle advocacy in Latin America Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Joshua Evans Completed in 2022	Taste Shaping Natures: A multimodal ethnography of translated fermentation in the New/er Nordic Cuisine Supervisors: Professor Jamie Lorimer; Professor Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Nicola Kühn Completed in 2022	Vegetation response to climate change in South Africa: a functional traits-based approach Supervisor: Professor Marc Macias-Fauria; Professor Katherine J. Willis (Zoology) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Yukun Liu Completed in 2022	Numerical simulation of the internal structure of aeolian sand dunes using cellular automaton modelling Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Yangsiyu Lu Completed in 2022	Environmental Risks, Stranded Assets, and the Impacts of Regulation on Firm Productivity Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Jacquelyn Pless Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Marcel Metzner Completed in 2022	Taking Planetary Boundaries Seriously: The Role of Accounting Practices in Corporate Climate Change Mitigation Supervisor: Dr Caitlin McElroy; Prof. Anette Mikes Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Saskia Nowicki Completed in 2022	Health Risk in Complex Adaptive Rural Water Systems Supervisors: Professor David Bradley; Professor Katrina Charles Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Jesper Svensson Completed in 2022	Water allocation and collective action in China: state, market and community responses to scarcity and freshwater variability Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Daniel Adshead Completed in 2021	Infrastructure for sustainable development Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Adam Formica Completed in 2021	Identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modeling Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Richard Grove Completed in 2021	A Holistic Approach to Evaluating the Performance of Consolidants on Sandstone Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Tom Learner (Getty Conservation Institute) Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Logan Hamilton Completed in 2021	Transfer of Status: Political Decentralisation as a Driver of Change in Indonesian Village Level Forest Governance Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Constance McDermott Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Georgia Hole Completed in 2021	Driftwood as a tool for investigation of Holocene Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics Supervisor: Professor Marc Macias-Fauria; Prof Don Porcelli (Earth Sciences) Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Britain Hopkins Completed in 2021	'Accepting the competitive challenge': the intellectual and legislative origins of the student loan industry in the U.S. Supervisors: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Ian Klinke Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Ohis Ilalokhoin Completed in 2021	Resilience Assessment of Complex Infrastructure Networks - a system-of-systems approach to rail networks at national scale Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Raghav Pant Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Katherine Jang Completed in 2021	'Moss on Rocks': Evaluating biodeterioration and bioprotection of bryophitic growth on stone masonry Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Lucas Kruitwagen Completed in 2021	Technology, information, and the governance of environmental risk Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Jae-Young Lee Completed in 2021	The role of water quality in regional water resources assessment Supervisors: Professor Paul Whitehead; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Kris Lee Completed in 2021	Understanding 'Reversed-Flow' international student mobility: a Bourdieusian perspective Supervisor: Dr Johanna Waters Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Shona Loong Completed in 2021	At the margins of a "development darling": civil society, territory, and development in Karen State, Myanmar Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Professor Fiona McConnell Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions
Alejandra Mora Soto Completed in 2021	Modelling kelp forest distribution in the Magellanic Province, Subantarctic South America Supervisor: Professor Marc Macias-Fauria Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Janak Padhiar Completed in 2021	Towards understanding life course geographies of young Afghans in India Supervisor: Professor Fiona McConnell; Bakewell, O. Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Kevin Rattue Completed in 2021	Emergent environmental risks and governance of the Northwest Passage (NWP) Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Liam Saddington Completed in 2021	Rising Seas and Sinking Islands: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in Tuvalu and Kiribati Supervisors: Dr Ian Klinke; Professor Fiona McConnell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Qiujie Shi Completed in 2021	Beijing and London Compared: How Can Fast-Developing Cities Broaden Urban Knowledge? Supervisors: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Janey Messina Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Ranu Sinha Completed in 2021	Pathways to Water Security: Evaluating the impacts of irrigation investments in Madhya Pradesh, India Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Professor Simon Dadson Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Filipa Soares Completed in 2021	Contesting the wild: nature, rewilding, conservationists and local communities in a changing Europe Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Bernard Soubry Completed in 2021	Climate Resilience on Maritime Farms: Exploring adaptation options for small-scale agriculture and food systems in Eastern Canada Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Kate Sherren (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada) Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Simona Sulikova Completed in 2021	An exploration of impacts and attitudes towards active transport modes of walking and cycling and how to change them. Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Linus Mattauch Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Lisa Thalheimer Completed in 2021	Methods of Attributing Human Mobility to Climate Change: Evidence from East Africa Supervisor: Professor Friederike Otto Research cluster: Climate Systems
Boipelo Tshwene-Mauchaza Completed in 2021	A re-design of Chobe National Park management system to optimise effectiveness under climate change: systems thinking approach Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Yinghong Wang Completed in 2021	Studying deterioration of sandstone cave-temple in western China and preventive conservation strategies for its preservation Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Zhe Wang Completed in 2021	Cityzenship: a study of transnational Chinese student returnees in three megacities in mainland China Supervisor: Dr Johanna Waters Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Alice Watson Completed in 2021	"And now on Radio 4...": imaginative geographies of migration on the airwaves Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Professor Gillian Rose Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria Completed in 2021	Linking interactions between cultural and biological diversity on the Pacific coast of North America in the face of climate change Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan Completed in 2020	The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Hanno Brankamp Completed in 2020	Policing the camp: Refugees and the geographies of humanitarian enforcement in Kenya Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Oliver Owen, Oxford Department of International Development Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Laura Brinker Completed in 2020	Energy decisions and governance: implications of retail market design for decentralized energy resources Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Vanessa Burns Completed in 2020	Oceanic assembleges: conceputalising El Nino Southern Oscillation as a more than human oceanography Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Eric (Tak Hin) Chan Completed in 2020	The role of built environment and travel behaviour in influencing people's well-being - A case study of Shenzhen Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Micol Chiesa Completed in 2020	Do firms forget about the environment? Evidence from publicly listed corporations Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Caitlin McElroy Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Tess Doeffinger Completed in 2020	Evaluating Water Security: Diagnostics and Trends Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Kaja Fenn Completed in 2020	Provenance of late Quaternary loess along the middle and lower Danube River, Europe Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Julie Durcan; Dr Ian Miller (British Geological Survey) Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Alexander Fischer Completed in 2020	Risk Narratives and Institutional Responses: Charting the Evolution of Unregulated Drinking Water Services in Rural Bangladesh, 1972-2016 Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Tom Hashimoto Completed in 2020	Financial Centre Development in Central and Eastern Europe: The Rise of Warsaw and the Hierarchy of Regional Financial Centres Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Dina Hestad Completed in 2020	Organising Urban Sustainability Transformations: Exploring the role, abilities, and potential of Sustainability-Oriented Hybrid Organisations Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr J. Tabara (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Jiashun Huang Completed in 2020	Infrastructure, the Economy and Policy Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Doyne Farmer (INET) Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Michelle Lanzoni Completed in 2020	Rain Events and Recharge Processes in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Nadezhda Mamontova Completed in 2020	Spatial Knowledge, Language, and Adaptation to the Landscape among the Ewenki of Central and Northeastern Siberia Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Martin Michette Completed in 2020	Reigate Stone at the Tower of London: Mitigating Problem Stone decay in urban environments Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
John Mittermeier Completed in 2020	Cultural value and biodiversity conservation: harnessing the power of 'big data' to quantify the cultural importance of species Supervisor: Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Kelsi Nagy Completed in 2020	India's sacred and mundane cattle: gods, hybrid-beasts and scavengers Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Ciaran Nash Completed in 2020	Sand mitigation along railway tracks - evaluation of sand hazards and field testing of mitigation measures Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Nicolas Raab Completed in 2020	Modelling tree carbon allocation, gas and energy exchange in the Amazon through functional structural models Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Jose Ramirez Mendiola Completed in 2020	Residential electricity demand: a modelling analysis of the dynamics of household activity and energy consumption patterns Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Jennifer Richards Completed in 2020	Learning from nature: evaluating site-based conservation approaches to mitigating climatic risks to earthen heritage sites in NW China Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
June Rubis Completed in 2020	(Re)imagining forest conservation landscapes and development pathways: indigenous strategies in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Laure Rurangwa Completed in 2020	Impact of land-use change on bird communities of a Rwandan Biodiversity hotspot Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Aven Satre Meloy Completed in 2020	Characterising temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption using advanced multivariate statistics Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Philipp Grünewald Research cluster: Climate Systems
Rhian Scott Completed in 2020	The contemporary warehouse studio: an extension of artist and urban landscape Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Thomas Jellis Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Xuanyi Sheng Completed in 2020	The governance and management of public-private partnerships bringing together stakeholders in the realization of complex engineering projects - One Belt One Road Initiative Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Aayush Srivastava Completed in 2020	Quaternary of the Thar Desert in India: understanding the history of dune accumulation with the aid of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Julie Durcan Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Aoife Bennett Completed in 2019	A political ecology of smallholder oil palm production and forest conservation in the Amazon frontier: towards a balanced approach to development in Ucayali, Peru Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott; Dr Peter Cronkleton (CIFOR) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Serkan Birgel Completed in 2019	Peacebuilding through natural resources - the case of Cyprus Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Professor Fiona McConnell Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Catherine Buckland Completed in 2019	New methods for identifying dune system reactivation drivers and responses, Nebraska Sandhills Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Anabelle Cardoso Completed in 2019	The role of fire and elephants in shaping a central African forest-savannah mosaic Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras; Dr Katharine Abernethy (University of Stirling) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Theodor Cojoianu Completed in 2019	Environmental investment strategies across the investment value chain: addressing the investment gap in clean technologies - from asset owners to entrepreneurs Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Amy Creese Completed in 2019	Climate change in the Congo Basin: evaluating coupled models Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems
Nina Doering Completed in 2019	Public participation, democratic decision-making, and extractive resource management in Greenland Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Richard Powell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Andrew Dwyer Completed in 2019	Malware Ecologies: A Politics of Cybersecurity Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Professor Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Alexander Eduful Completed in 2019	Neoliberalism, urban development and Accra's (Ghana) shopping malls as new spaces of urban consumption Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Lucie Fusade Completed in 2019	Designing and evaluating repointing lime mortars for the conservation of historic buildings in highly exposed environments Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Sofya Gavrilova Completed in 2019	The present taxidermied: Soviet ‘common unsaids’ in Russian krayevedcheskiy museums Supervisors: Professor Judith Pallot; Dr Ian Klinke Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Jennifer Gooden Completed in 2019	From William James to Twenty-First Century landowners: perspectives on private land conservation Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Agne Gvozdevaite Completed in 2019	The role of economic, venation and morphological leaf traits in plant and ecosystem function along forest-savannah gradients in the tropics Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Toby Jackson Completed in 2019	Tree biomechanics: a study of the mechanical stability of broadleaf trees Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Alexander Shenkin; Dr Lisa Patrick Bentley Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Jacob Katuva Completed in 2019	Groundwater and welfare in coastal Kenya Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Dr Dustin Garrick Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Xiawei Liao Completed in 2019	Future conflicts of water demands and availability in China's power sector Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Scott MacDonald Completed in 2019	An international comparison of voluntary green electricity tariffs Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre Research cluster: Climate Systems
Cuthbert Makondo Completed in 2019	Options in Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Mitigation: Evidence from Zambia's Rural-Rural Migration Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Peter Martin Completed in 2019	Arctic science in circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c. 1880-1914 Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Professor Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Emma McIntosh Completed in 2019	An evidence-based evaluation of systematic conservation planning Supervisor: Dr Richard Grenyer Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Christine Moore Completed in 2019	Complex Mosaic Landscapes: Novel methodologies to understand dynamics of Cocoa farming in Ghana Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Callum Munday Completed in 2019	Representation of southern African climate in coupled models Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Cyrus Nayeri Completed in 2019	Governing the ungovernable: investigating the geopolitics of volcano hazard management on Iceland's South Coast Supervisors: Professor Jamie Lorimer; Dr Kärg Kama; Professor Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Kiron Neale Completed in 2019	Beyond Implementation: Mainstreaming Residential Solar Energy in Trinidad Supervisors: Dr Chris Jardine; Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Climate Systems; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Thanti Octavianti Completed in 2019	Achieving water security in a developing-country delta city: Challenges from a waterfront development project in Jakarta Bay Supervisor: Professor Katrina Charles Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Homero Paltan Lopez Completed in 2019	Surface water sensitivity to climate variability Supervisor: Professor Simon Dadson Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions
Helge Peters Completed in 2019	More-than-rational modelling: the pragmatics and politics of social simulation in fisheries management Supervisors: Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore; Dr Catharina Landström Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Ruksana Rimi Completed in 2019	Anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather events: implications for Bangladesh Supervisors: Professor Myles Allen; Dr Karsten Haustein; Dr Emily Barbour Research cluster: Climate Systems
Aniket Shah Completed in 2019	The economic geography of development banking for sustainable development Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Matthew Shepherd Completed in 2019	Geothermal Urbanism: Making the elemental explicit in Reykjavík Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Professor Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Guanli Zhang Completed in 2019	Digesting industrialisation: social changes in two industrialised villages in east China Supervisors: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Festus Asaaga Completed in 2018	Land rights, tenure security and sustainable land use in rural Ghana Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Mark Hirons Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Negar Elodie Behzadi Completed in 2018	Gendered coal struggles at the margins: the working lives of men, women and children in Soviet and post-Soviet Tajikistan Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Judith Pallot Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Iliana Cardenes Trujillo Completed in 2018	Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Heuishilja Chang Completed in 2018	The resilience of shrinking communities in rural Japan: Can the Cittaslow approach be a possible development strategy? Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Pierre-Louis Choquet Completed in 2018	Fragmented horizons: multinational firms and ethical life in the Anthropocene Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Anna Davidson Completed in 2018	Moblizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles Supervisors: Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore; Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Irina Fedorenko Completed in 2018	Environmental activism, non-governmental organisations and new generation of civil society in Russia and China Supervisors: Professor Judith Pallot; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Mark Fransham Completed in 2018	Understanding neighbourhood income poverty dynamics in England Supervisor: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Rachel Loopstra (Department of Sociology, Oxford) Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Elizabeth Harnett Completed in 2018	The diffusion of responsible investment discourses and practices: the role and impact of investment consultants Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Caitlin McElroy Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Xi (Sisi) Hu Completed in 2018	A temporal and spatial analysis of China’s infrastructure and economic vulnerability to climate change impacts Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Anna Hushlak Completed in 2018	Campaigning in the age of digital media: exploring the influences of digital affordances on campaigning in environmental non-governmental organisations Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Christopher Kaminker Completed in 2018	The role of institutional investors in financing sustainable energy Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Johanna Koehler Completed in 2018	Water risks and institutional change in Kenya Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research clusters: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place; Environmental Interactions
Yingqi Liu Completed in 2018	The role of the forward capacity market in promoting electricity use reduction: case studies of the electricity demand reduction (EDR) pilot in the UK and international schemes in North America and Europe Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Professor Nick Eyre Research cluster: Climate Systems
Penelope Mealy Completed in 2018	'Know What?' New lens on productive knowledge shed light on long run development structural change, job switching and the transition to the green economy Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Prof Doyne Famer Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Stephanie Mooij Completed in 2018	The (mis)alignment of ESG perspectives in the investment chain. A cross-country analysis of the obstacles facing companies, asset managers and asset owners. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof C Mayer Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Sarah Morton Completed in 2018	The legacies of the repatriation of human remains from the Royal College of Surgeons of England Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Professor Beth Greenhough; Dr Catherine Nash (QMU); Dr Sam Alberti (Sterling) Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Scott Allan Orr Completed in 2018	'Wet walls': developing 4D moisture monitoring techniques for stone masonry Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Rafael Pereira Completed in 2018	Distributive justice and transportation equity: inequality in accessibility in Rio de Janeiro Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Brice Perombelon Completed in 2018	Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower: the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Alexander Pfeiffer Completed in 2018	The 'decarbonisation identity' and pathways to net-zero: the scale and impact of committed cumulative carbon emissions and stranded assets in the electricity generation sector on the decarbonisation of the economy Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Michael Urban Completed in 2018	Placing the production of investment returns: an economic geography of asset management in public pension plans Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Kevin Wheeler Completed in 2018	Cooperation or conflict in trans-boundary rivers with the emergence of climate variability: a case study of the Nile River Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Meghan Bailey Completed in 2017	Robust adaptation planning and decision-making: a comparative study of subsistence-oriented communities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and West Africa Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Jonathan Balls Completed in 2017	Fluid capitalism at the bottom of the pyramid: a study of the off-grid solar power market in Uttar Pradesh, India Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Prof M. McCartney (SAS) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Abrar Chaudhury Completed in 2017	Organising climate change adaptation: an organisation and network perspective to agriculture adaptation in developing countries Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Ariella Helfgott; Dr Marc Ventresca (SSB) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Lisa Choi Completed in 2017	Mobilities and socio-spatialities in the Aerotropolis: Dallas-Fort Worth and New Songdo City Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Professor Linda McDowell Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Christopher Coghlan Completed in 2017	Towards food security with nutritional health: multi-scale approaches Supervisor: Dr Shonil Bhagwat Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Megan Cole Completed in 2017	Tracking inclusive sustainable development at multiple scales: South Africa's safe and just operating spaces Supervisor: Professor Richard Bailey; Prof Mark New (UCT) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Andrew Dansie Completed in 2017	The role of windblown dust from ephemeral river valleys in the fertilisation of the Benguela Upwelling System Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Professor Giles Wiggs Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Sasha Engelmann Completed in 2017	The cosmological aesthetics of Tomás Saraceno's atmospheric experiments Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Franziska Gaupp Completed in 2017	The global impact of droughts on agricultural production Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Professor Jim Hall Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Saher Hasnain Completed in 2017	Food environments in Islamabad, Pakistan Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Professor Fiona McConnell Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Ashley Kingsborough Completed in 2017	Climate change risk assessment, Decision making and the development of adaptation pathways Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Julian Kirchherr Completed in 2017	The Anti-Dam Protest Cycle: Evidence from Asia Supervisor: Professor Katrina Charles; Dr Matthew Walton Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Christopher Lander Completed in 2017	Foreign Direct Investment in the Russian Agrarian Sector Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics
Qiong Lu Completed in 2017	Modelling of pesticides and POPs in the River Thames System: potential impacts of changes in climate and management Supervisor: Professor Paul Whitehead Research cluster: Climate Systems
Ewan Macdonald Completed in 2017	Clouds on the horizon: identifying global priorities for conservation marketing and planning the conservation of the Sunda clouded leopard on Borneo Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Ashley Massey Completed in 2017	Sacred forests and conservation on a landscape scale Supervisor: Dr Shonil Bhagwat; Professor Kathy Willis (Dept. of Zoology) Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Jerome Mayaud Completed in 2017	Development and testing of a coupled vegetation / sediment-transport model for dryland environments Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Gregory Ortiz Completed in 2017	New contradictions: the activism of middle-class youth in Delhi
Viresh Patel Completed in 2017	Changing contours of sociality: Youth, education, and general relations in rural Gujarat, India Supervisor: Professor Fiona McConnell; Dr Nikita Sud (ODID) Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Rowan Popplewell Completed in 2017	Creating spaces for peace? Civil society, political space and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Rachel Hayman (INTRAC) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alexandra Rowell Completed in 2017	Sand ramps as Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental archives: analysis from Southern Africa Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Rachael Tily Completed in 2017	Space, research objects and interdisciplinarity in geomorphological inquiry Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell; Prof Andrew Barry Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Laura-Marie Töpfer Completed in 2017	Mapping Chinese cross-border finance: actors, networks and institutional development Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Michael Viehs Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Thomas Turnbull Completed in 2017	From paradox to policy: the problem of energy resource conservation in Britain and America, 1865-1981 Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell; Prof Andrew Barry Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Xiaoyang Wang Completed in 2017	Pathways to international financial centre formation with Chinese characteristics: a view from Shanghai Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Ariell Ahearn-Ligham Completed in 2016	The changing meaning of work, herding, and social relations in Mongolia: a study of value transformations and conditions for social change Supervisor: Dr Troy Sternberg; Prof. Dawn Chatty (QEH, Oxford) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Samin Ahmad Completed in 2016	What controls algal greening of sandstone heritage? An experimental approach Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Thomas Ashfold Completed in 2016	Work, Time and Rhythm: Investigating contemporary ‘time squeeze’ Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Cristina Cabello Briones Completed in 2016	Effects of open shelters on the preservation of limestone remains at archaeological sites Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Becky Catarelli Completed in 2016	Rising seas, surprising storms: temporalities of climate and catastrophe in Vermont, New York and the Florida Keys Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant Completed in 2016	Impacts of leaf age on the spectral and physiochemical traits of trees in Amazonian forest canopies Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr France Gerard (CEH) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Tahia Devisscher Completed in 2016	Wildfire under a changing climate in the Bolivian Chiquitania: a social-ecological systems analysis Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Emily Boyd (Reading) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Adam Elliott-Cooper Completed in 2016	The Struggle that has No Name: Policing, space and community resistance in neoliberal Britain Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Timothy Foster Completed in 2016	From cash flows to water flows: an assessment of financial risks to rural water supply sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Linda Geaves Completed in 2016	Public priorities and public goods: the drivers and responses to transitions in flood risk management Supervisors: Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Rory Hill Completed in 2016	'Local, loyal and constant'? On the dynamism of terroir in sustainable agriculture Supervisor: Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Carlo Inverardi Ferri Completed in 2016	Invisible spaces: variegated geographies of waste in China Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Irem Kok Completed in 2016	Politics of transparency: contested spaces of corporate responsibility, science and regulation in shale gas projects of the UK and US Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof Andrew Barry Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alex Littaye Completed in 2016	Finding time in the geographies of food: how heritage food discourses shape notions of place Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Yuge Ma Completed in 2016	The emergence of low carbon development in China and India: energy efficiency as a lens Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Barbara Harriss-White Research clusters: Climate Systems; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
David Maguire Completed in 2016	Learning to serve time: troubling spaces of working class masculinities in the UK Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Balqis Mohamed Rehan Completed in 2016	Risk-based flood protection decisions in the context of climatic variability and change Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Andre Neves Completed in 2016	The impact of walking and cycling infrastructure on personal travel and carbon emissions: the case of Cardiff Connect2 Supervisor: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Jones Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Yukie Saito Completed in 2016	Corporate engagement for sustainable business in development Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Nicholas Simcik-Arese Completed in 2016	The commons in a compound: morality, ownership, and legality in Cairo's squatted gated community
Chase Sova Completed in 2016	Decision making, agenda setting and preference shaping in Ghana's agricultural climate change adaptation policy regime: a political ecological perspective Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Sarah Terry Completed in 2016	Spaces for nature: neoliberal conservation in post-Reformasi South Sumatra Supervisors: Dr Paul Jepson; Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Scott Thacker Completed in 2016	Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Kerrie Thornhill Completed in 2016	Reconstructed meanings of gender violence in postwar Liberia Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (QEH, Oxford) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Marina Topouzi Completed in 2016	Occupants' interaction with low-carbon retrofitted homes and its impact on energy use Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Rajat Gupta Research cluster: Climate Systems
Charlotte von Mangoldt Completed in 2016	Student environmentalism in Beijing, China Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Liwen Wang Completed in 2016	Developing innovation capability: the case of Chinese automobile companies Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr David Bonilla; Dr David Bonilla Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Katrin Wilhelm Completed in 2016	Improving non-destructive techniques for in situ stone weathering research Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Yin Yang Completed in 2016	The economic geography of urban water infrastructure investment and governance - a comparison of Beijing and London Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Kate Young Completed in 2016	Strategic appraisal of interdependent infrastructure provision Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Zichen Zhang Completed in 2016	Electric vehicles in China: past, present and future Supervisor: Professor David Banister Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Christopher Allen Completed in 2015	Atmospheric mechanisms of Central Saharan dust storm formation in Boreal summer: observations from the Fennec campaign Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems
Edoardo Borgomeo Completed in 2015	Water resources adaptation decisions in the context of climatic non-stationarity and variability Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems
Jeremy Brice Completed in 2015	Materials, markets, and the making of South Australian wine: uncertainties, vulnerabilities, valuation Supervisor: Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Emma Cardwell Completed in 2015	A study of the UK's market based fisheries policy Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Prof. Daniel Pauly (UBC, Canada) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Yi'En Cheng Completed in 2015	Education, class, and youth: young people's experiences of private higher education in Singapore Supervisor: Dr Johanna Waters Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Myung-Ae (Chloe) Choi Completed in 2015	Governing Deceleration: the natures, times and spaces of ecotourism in South Korea Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Daniel Cooper Completed in 2015	Under Mount Roraima: The revitalization of a shamanic landscape and practice Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Eden Cottee-Jones Completed in 2015	Isolated Ficus trees and conservation in human-modified landscapes Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Cecilia Dahlsjo Completed in 2015	The role of termite assemblages in ecosystem processes in tropical forests Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Alexis Gutierrez Completed in 2015	The Sustainable Seafood Movement - bringing together supply, demand and governance of capture fisheries in the US and UK to achieve sustainability Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Heather Hachigian Completed in 2015	Governance frameworks for responsible investing: the case of sovereign sponsored funds. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Shuaishuai He Completed in 2015	Heritage conservation and urban revitalization in China Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Timothy Hodgetts Completed in 2015	Enacting connectivity: woodland mammal conservation practices in England and Wales Supervisor: Professor Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Ryan Hogarth Completed in 2015	The evolutionary economic geography of climate change Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Mary Kanui Completed in 2015	Variety for security: a case study of agricultural, nutrient and dietary diversity among smallholder farmers in Western Kenya Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Shonil Bhagwat Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Jagadishwor Karmacharya Completed in 2015	Climate processes over the Himalayas: added value from high resolution regional climate modelling
Andrea Kölbel Completed in 2015	Youth, aspiration, and mobility: young people debating their potential futures in Nepal Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor David Gellner (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Ashok Kumar Completed in 2015	Building workers' power against globally mobile capital: case studies from the transnational garment sector Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Sarah-Jane Littleford Completed in 2015	For the benefit of current and future generations: prospects for intergenerational equity in South Africa Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Lucy Mahoney Completed in 2015	Investigating the interactions of travel behaviour and wellbeing: a mixed-methods case study of Penarth and Cardiff, Wales Supervisor: Dr Christian Brand Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Thomas Matthews Completed in 2015	Analysing and modelling the impact of habitat fragmentation on species diversity: a macroecological perspective Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Sarah McGill Completed in 2015	The economic governance of global commodity markets Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Amber Murrey Completed in 2015	Lifescapes of a pipedream: a decolonial mixed-tape of structural violence and resistance in two towns along the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Grace Mwaura Completed in 2015	Educated youth in Kenya: Negotiating waithood by greening livelihoods Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Sahar Romani Completed in 2015	Generation NGO: youth and development in urban India Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Dane Rook Completed in 2015	Doxastic spaces: a new approach to relational beliefs and unstable neglect Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Climate Systems; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Caroline Schmidt Completed in 2015	Law, geography and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for REDD+ national implementation Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott Research cluster: Climate Systems
Rocio Urrutia Completed in 2015	Primary productivity and soil respiration in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile and their environmental controls Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Pam Berry Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Alexandra Yannias Completed in 2015	'Do the data in fact deceive?': An analysis of the roles of evaluation and the production of aid effectiveness at the World Bank Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Haiyan (Helen) Yu Completed in 2015	Water, Power and IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) - a comparative study of village water governance in arid and semi-arid northwest China Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Professor David S.G. Thomas; Prof. Mike Edmunds Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Said Al Sarmi Completed in 2014	Observed climate trends and projected climate change over the Arabian peninsula Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems
Malek Al-Chalabi Completed in 2014	The road not taken? A longitudinal and interdisciplinary examination of energy behaviours Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Christian Brand Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Janet Banfield Completed in 2014	Towards a non-representational geography of artistic practice Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Jennifer Booth Completed in 2014	Back to Nature: Geologically informed consolidates for stone museum artefacts Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Yonique Campbell Completed in 2014	Citizenship, security and the politics of reform in Jamaica Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Colin Clarke Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Kathryn Clark Completed in 2014	The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems
Erin Freeland-Ballantyne Completed in 2014	Sustainability's paradox: community health, climate change and petro-capitalism Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Alexandra Girard Completed in 2014	Women and work in irrigated landscapes in rural India Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Rachel James Completed in 2014	Implications of global warming for African climate Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems
Darren Jeffers Completed in 2014	A palaeo-evironmental history of the southern Bekaa Valley and the Lebanon Mountains, Lebanon during the last glacial period (~112-35 ka BP)
Nicholas Kreston Completed in 2014	Post-Keynesian financial spaces, places, and flows: measuring and visualizing financial services in the United States Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Aaron Krolikowski Completed in 2014	Mobile-enabled payments methods and public service delivery in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Nina Kruglikova Completed in 2014	Environmental NGOs as a mediator of scientific knowledge: an enthnographic study Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson; Prof. N. Thrift Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Tanya Kumar Completed in 2014	Marginalized street traders or strategic entrepreneurs? Social networks, political structures and Kolkata’s young street vendors Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Carly Leighton Completed in 2014	Desert dune system response to Late Quaternary environmental change in the northeastern Rub’Al Khali: advances in the application of opitically stimulated luminescence datasets Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Eveliina Lyytinen Completed in 2014	Spaces of trust and mistrust: Congolese refugees, institutions and protection in Kampala, Uganda Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Prof. Roger Zetter (Refugees Studies Centre) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alex Money Completed in 2014	Corporate water risk and return Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Mari Mulyani Completed in 2014	The interplay between the REDD+ mechanism and forest-related institutions in Indonesia Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Helen Pearce Completed in 2014	Climate change in East Africa Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems
Aisha Saad Completed in 2014	Contesting corporate social responsibility: public challenges to the modern corporation in the 21st Century Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Marcus Wachtmeister Completed in 2014	Driving towards more flexibility? China’s environmental and climate policy in the automotive sector Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Prof. V. Shue (Dept. of Politics, Oxford) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

International Graduate School

Current Graduate Research Students

Conflicting framings in global conservation governance: Consequences for African megafauna

Gendered Mobilities and Platform-based Transport Services in Lahore, Pakistan

The effects of land cover changes on streamflow in the United States; a large sample statistical attribution approach.

Revenue patterns of piped water services in rural Africa

Looping forest: Analogue and digital mediations of landscape and identities in post-Soviet Estonia

Climate Risks and the Financial System - The role of climate-stress testing for central banks and financial regulators

Biodiversity and bioprotection of historic maritime structures: a possible win-win?

Olivia Becher

Stress testing large-scale water system resilience: a multi-risk framework for guiding adaptation

Giulia Belloni

The role of the smart city in Europe: Bristol and Florence in Re-plicate 2020

The distribution and ecosystem services of insectivorous bats in Indian rice plantations

Circular economy and eco-innovation in the mining sector

Breathing Stones - developing laser spectroscopic methods to study moisture uptake and release by historic limestone in polluted urban environments

Long term (economic) policy tools based on complexity economics and the non-linear planetary impact of climate change

Comprehending changing climate and landscape influence on hydrological systems

A behavioural perspective on decisions around land use: on social influence, risk, and collective action

Thomas Caton Harrison

Variability of the dust-emitting low-level jet in the central and western Sahara through boreal summer

The Shifting Urban Paradigm and the Politics of Alternative Urban Place-Making: a case study on Seoul, South Korea

Towards resilient cities, communities and individuals: Cutting across the top-down-bottom-up dichotomy through citizen initiatives in everyday transport practices and planning

The Staging of Indigeneity in Taiwan as a Geopolitical Strategy

From geo- to astropolitics: How Taiwan constructs vertical territory within the global satellite network

Climate-smart green infrastructure

Fostering Effective Climate Change Governance to Enable Resilient Infrastructure Service Provision

Remote sensing to assess ecosystem change and restoration in tropical mountain ecosystems

Stranded states: Public management of fossil fuel assets in the international system

Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries

Kerry Constabile

Urban 100% Renewable Energy Pathways: Assessing the drivers that shift grids from Brown to Green

Cheli Cresswell

Using big data and citizen science to map geographic and temporal trends in human-elephant conflict in Asia

Dynamics Controlling the Seasonal Cycle of Congo Basin Evaporation

The influence of Holocene sea-ice variability on Arctic biota: using the past to predict the future

From Transit Oriented Development to People Oriented Development: a Fresh Look at Medium Sized Cities in Latin America

Can society and corporations share the same perspective on sustainability? Should they?

Locating Communities in Digital Natures: Exploring the Politics of National Parks, Identity and Visual Social Media in the Lake District.

Political economy of low carbon mobility transitions - the case of electric mobility in India

Jakob Engel

The political economy of commodity trading: Industrial organisation, regulation and regional development

Governing Common Pool Resources in Fragile Political Systems: Modelling Behaviour, Institutions and Social-Ecological Dynamics

Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Examining the Role of Attribution Science in Building Support for Climate Action

Rivers and cities: exploring their complex water-risk and its governance

Studying decision architecture to find key behavioural intervention measures for increased traction in green consumption

Using a feminist ethic of care to evaluate women's engagement with digital economy in Ethiopia

Education in the climate emergency: Smart grids, digital storytelling and the quest for net-zero schools in the UK

Assessing the intersection of climate change and emerging conflict in the Sahel and East Africa

Delivering cohousing for a carbon and resource constrained world, what role for community groups, what role for the state

Climate-resilient system transitions to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals

Exploring land-use trade-offs in a rapidly changing economic and policy environment

Exploring the role of financial institutions in the low carbon transition and the implications for financial stability

A holistic approach to diagnosing the deterioration of rock-hewn structures in Lalibela, Ethiopia

Governing informal water markets in Eastern Africa

Forest Restoration in India: Opportunities and Realities

Forest Governance in the Brazilian Amazon: Policy Change and Innovation to Curb Deforestation

Wenbo Guo

Mobility, subjective well-being and health in transitional China: towards socially sustainable cities

Nature-based solutions to sustainable infrastructure development for the achievement of the global agendas of the SDGs and Paris Agreement

A demand atlas for the planning, operations and upgrading of bicycle-sharing systems

Environmental sentinels and the more-than-human practices and politics of sensing the European and North American Arctic

Practicing Reconciliation: Producing Peace?

Atmosphere as a means of governing life: weather modification and ecological conservation in Sanjiangyuan, China

Modelling landscape response to environmental change in susceptible drylands

Global Environmental (in)Activism: An Ethnography of Pollution, Illness and Community Resistance in Italy and Taiwan

Exploring urban inequality through unveiling uneven atmospheres in everyday mobility practices

Affective experiences in radical housing alternatives: The cases of Barcelona, Berlin and Rome

A new tool for energy and environmental valuation to improve decision making for capital deployment of climate-resilient infrastructure

Financial Elites and the Spatial Variation of Inequality: Examining the Intersection of Gender, Race and Class in Frankfurt, London and New York City

The Blessings of the Commons (Muzhayo) for the Local Community and More-than-Humans of Chitral, Pakistan and the Influence of Neoliberal and Nationalization Projects: An Apocalypse of a Culturalscape

Nameerah Khan

Bangladesh's arsenic crisis: Navigating the complexities of the science-policy interface of water quality and health

Tarek Kheir Eddine

The impact of confessional politics and socio-economic stratification on the use and development of public spaces in Lebanon

Rainfall Dynamics and Change in East Africa: Tackling the 'Climate Paradox'

Katie Kowal

Leveraging Drought Prediction for Enhanced Preparedness in the Central American Dry Corridor

Holistic Business Models: Connecting Electricity Access to Sustainable Development