School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Michael 't Sas-Rolfes

Conserving Africa's rhinos and elephants: geography, economics and policy

Supervisors: Dr Paul Jepson; Professor Robert Hahn
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Daniel Adshead

Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals through long-term infrastructure planning

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Galina Alova

Corporate responses to climate-related risks: from disclosing public stance to aligning capital expenditure

Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Rodrigo Arce

Certified forest industry diversification in the Bolivian Northern Amazon: escaping the staple trap in the forest carbon era

Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Pablo Astudillo-Estévez

Path dependence, reinforcement mechanisms and economic complexity in commodity-exporting countries

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Negar Elodie Behzadi

Gendered coal struggles at the margins - the work of men, women and children in an informal/artisanal mine in post-Soviet Tajikistan

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Aoife Bennett

The political ecology of oil palm, people and forest conservation: searching for a balanced approach to development in the Peruvian Amazon

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott; Dr Peter Cronkleton (CIFOR)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Serkan Birgel

Peacebuilding through natural resources - the case of Cyprus

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Fiona McConnell
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Hanno Brankamp

Policing the camp: Refugees and the geographies of humanitarian order in Kenya

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Oliver Owen, Oxford Department of International Development
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Laura Brinker

Energy decisions and governance: implications of retail market design for decentralized energy resources

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Matthew Lockwood (University of Exeter)
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions

Catherine Buckland

Determining dryland landscape sensitivity to natural and human disturbances using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) techniques, Nebraska Sandhills

Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Vanessa Burns

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 and Policy; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Anabelle Cardoso

What controls vegetation dynamics in a Central African forest-savanna mosaic: fire or mega-fauna?

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Robert Carlsson

Understanding the economic role of national infrastructure systems

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Paola Castaneda

How is the bike made mobile? Learning from bicycle advocacy in Latin America

Supervisor: Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Eric (Tak Hin) Chan

The role of built environment and travel behaviour in influencing people's well-being - A case study of Shenzhen

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Micol Chiesa

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

Theodor Cojoianu

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

Sergio Henrique Collaço de Carvalho

Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries

Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Amy Creese

Constraints on rainfall and convection in numerical models: a case study of the Congo Basin

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Cheli Cresswell

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

Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

David Crowhurst

Land Surface Controls on Central African Rainfall

Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Professor Simon Dadson
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy

Justin Dargin

A carbon market for the Gulf - the development of an optimal carbon trading platform to regulate carbon emissions in the Gulf cooperation council

Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Prof Jonathan Stern (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

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 the Rural Community in Nature and the Nation: Exploring spatial politics of national parks and national identities

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research clusters: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions

Nina Doering

Local participation in Greenland's emerging minerals industry

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Richard Powell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Andrew Dwyer

Malware Ecologies: Disrupting the Geographies of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Alexander Eduful

Oil, urbanism and the emergence of a 'cross-class public space' in Ghana: a case for sustainable development?

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

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

Joshua Evans

Endless Convivial Experiments: Domestication and the microbiogeography of hybrid fermentation practices

Supervisors: Dr Jamie Lorimer; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Kaja Fenn

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

Do new information flows influence better water institutions in fragile states? Exploring the contingent relationships between decision-makers and measurement technologies

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Adam Formica

Identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modeling

Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Dr Richard Grenyer
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Mark Fransham

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

Lena Fuldauer

Climate-resilient infrastructure networks for sustainable development in small island developing states

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Lucie Fusade

Mitigating driving rain to historic buildings: the use of additives in lime-based pointing mortar

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Yujie Gan

Tackling the Chinese Pension System: demographic transition, pension investment, and the financial regulation

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Blen Taye Gemeda

Understanding the impact of moisture on the degradation of porous and clay-bearing, monolithic stone structures: Lalibela, Ethiopia

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Jennifer Gooden

Investing in nature: the premise and promise of private conservation

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Richard Grenyer
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

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 and Policy

Wenbo Guo

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

Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Agne Gvozdevaite

Functional diversity of tropical rainforests and their sensitivity to environmental change

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Logan Hamilton

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 and Policy

Samuel Hampton

Understanding energy demand: energy using practices and energy services

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Dr Tina Fawcett; Professor Nick Eyre
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Yifan Han

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

Supervisor: Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Elizabeth Harnett

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

Tom Hashimoto

Dismantling 'irrationality' of geo-economic thinking in central and eastern Europe

Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Dina Hestad

Transformational capacity: investigating organisations ability to foster social transformation towards sustainability

Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Patrick Pringle; Dr J. Tabara (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Georgia Hole

Towards a first high resolution spatiotemporal reconstruction of Holocene Arctic sea ice dynamics

Supervisor: Dr Marc Macias-Fauria; Prof Don Porcelli (Earth Sciences)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Dong-Li Hong

The praxis and politics of technological optimism in the Anthropocene

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Jiashun Huang

Infrastructure and the Economy

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Doyne Farmer (INET)
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Takeshi Inagawa

Nutrient dynamics of Bornean tropical forests

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Terhi Riutta
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Luis Iturra

Exploring urban inequality through unveiling uneven atmospheres in everyday mobility practices

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Toby Jackson

Wind damage and the mechanical strength of trees. Why are trees in Borneo so tall?

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Alexander Shenkin; Dr Lisa Patrick Bentley
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Katherine Jang

'Moss on Rocks': Evaluating biodeterioration and bioprotection of bryophitic growth on stone masonry

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Kristina Kaempfer

Small Worlds in Financial Spaces: Exploring Women’s Networks in and between London and Frankfurt

Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Jacob Katuva

Geospatially distributed impacts of mining and irrigation on water growth and development in Kwale, Kenya

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Tarek Kheir Eddine

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

Supervisor: Dr Fiona McConnell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Narendra Killada

Environmental publics in the Indian case: situated interpretations of nature and democracy in addressing resource conflicts

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

James King

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

Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Johanna Koehler

Democracy, decentralisation and development in Kenya: an assessment of structural change in the water sector

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research clusters: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place; Environmental Interactions

Toru Kubo

Technology innovation and policy instruments to advance low-carbon transport in developing Asian economies

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Christian Brand
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Nicola Kühn

Vegetation response to climate change in South Africa: a functional traits-based approach.

Supervisors: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Dr Marc Macias-Fauria; Professor Katherine J. Willis (Zoology)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions

Michelle Lanzoni

Rain Events and Recharge Processes in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado

Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Professor W. Mike Edmunds; Dr A. Stone (University of Manchester)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Kris Lee

Understanding 'Reversed-Flow' international student mobility: a Bourdieusian perspective

Supervisor: Dr Johanna Waters
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Jae-Young Lee

The role of water quality in regional water resources assessment

Supervisors: Professor Paul Whitehead; Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Xiawei Liao

Identifying and understanding changes in water-energy linkage for China

Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Shona Loong

At the margins of a ‘development darling’: intersections between sovereignty, territory, and development in Karen State, Myanmar

Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Fiona McConnell
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Environmental Interactions

Scott MacDonald

An international comparison of voluntary green electricity tariffs

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Cuthbert Makondo

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 and Policy; Environmental Interactions

Nadezhda Mamontova

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 and Policy

Peter Martin

International networks and cosmopolitan science: Geographical Societies and Greenland, c. 1880 to 1939

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Emma McIntosh

Evaluating conservation planning: elucidating the societal and governance factors behind effective conservation prioritisations

Supervisor: Dr Richard Grenyer
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Martin Michette

Reigate Stone at the Tower of London: Mitigating Problem Stone decay in urban environments

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Samuel Miller McDonald

Egalitarian Energy: Challenges to Neoliberal Discourse in Distributed Community Energy Programs

Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Aoife Haney
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

John Mittermeier

Cultural value and biodiversity conservation: harnessing the power of 'big data' to quantify the cultural importance of species

Supervisors: Dr Paul Jepson; Dr Richard Grenyer
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Christine Moore

Understanding social-ecological resilience in a cocoa producing region: a study of Ghana's Kakum Region

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Helen Morrissey

Taxi Wars: understanding 'data as governance' in South Africa's transport sector

Supervisor: Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Callum Munday

Representation of southern African climate in coupled models

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy

Kelsi Nagy

India's sacred and mundane cattle: gods, hybrid-beasts and scavengers

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Ciaran Nash

Sand mitigation along railway tracks - evaluation of sand hazards and field testing of mitigation measures

Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Cyrus Nayeri

Governing the ungovernable: investigating the geopolitics of volcano hazard management on Iceland's South Coast

Supervisors: Dr Jamie Lorimer; Dr Kärg Kama; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Kiron Neale

Beyond Implementation: Mainstreaming Residential Solar Energy in Trinidad

Supervisors: Dr Chris Jardine; Professor Nick Eyre
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Saskia Nowicki

The risk assessment imperative for ‘safe’ drinking water: traversing the technology-policy-management nexus to secure clean water supply

Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Sarah O'Keefe

Climate Scenarios for Water Security in Developing Regions

Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Friederike Otto
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy

Thanti Octavianti

Achieving water security in a developing-country delta city: Challenges from a waterfront development project in Jakarta Bay

Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Scott Allan Orr

'Wet walls': developing 4D moisture monitoring techniques for stone masonry

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Janak Padhiar

Towards understanding life course geographies of young Afghans in India

Supervisor: Dr Fiona McConnell; Bakewell, O.
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Homero Paltan Lopez

Sensitivity of freshwater to climate variability

Supervisor: Professor Simon Dadson
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions

Emilie Parry

"The New Local": Emerging configurations of cooperative applied learning for climate action within an Asian Interfaith Alliance

Supervisor: Professor Danny Dorling
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; 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

Ashim Paun

Efficacy in national policy frameworks for a post-oil era

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Ben Caldecott
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Helge Peters

Configuring socio-environmental complexity: an ethnography of agent-based modelling

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Dr Catharina Landström
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Rebecca Peters

Socio-legal approaches to regulate urban river water security in South Asia

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Joseph Poore

The extent of abandoned agricultural land and its conservation potential

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Richard Grenyer; EJ Milner-Gulland (Zoology)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Nicolas Raab

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 and Policy

Jose Ramirez Mendiola

The pathway to a sustainable energy infrastructure system

Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions

Kevin Rattue

Emergent environmental risks and governance of the Northwest Passage (NWP)

Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Jennifer Richards

Learning from nature: evaluating site-based conservation approaches to mitigating climatic risks to earthen heritage sites in NW China

Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Ruksana Rimi

Climate change and high-impact weather events: implications for water resource and agriculture in Bangladesh

Supervisors: Professor Myles Allen; Dr Karsten Haustein; Dr Emily Barbour
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

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

June Rubis

(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 and Policy

Liam Saddington

Sea level rise in Kiribati and Tuvalu: Geopolitics, epistemic communities and diplomacy

Supervisors: Dr Ian Klinke; Dr Fiona McConnell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Aven Satre Meloy

Dimensions of residential energy demand: an analysis of factors influencing energy consumption and flexibility in US and UK households

Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Philipp Grünewald
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Rhian Scott

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

Aniket Shah

The economic geography of development banking for sustainable development

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Xuanyi Sheng

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

Matthew Shepherd

Geothermal Urbanism: Making the elemental explicit in Reykjavík

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Ranu Sinha

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 and Policy; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Filipa Soares

Contesting the wild: nature, rewilding, conservationists and local communities in a changing Europe

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions

Bernard Soubry

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

Aayush Srivastava

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 and Policy

Simona Sulikova

An exploration of impacts and attitudes towards active transport modes of walking and cycling and how to change them.

Supervisor: Dr Christian Brand
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Jesper Svensson

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

Nina Teng

Examining Trust in Shared Mobility: The Case of On-Demand Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing in Southeast Asia

Supervisor: Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Lisa Thalheimer

Climate induced human mobility: the impact of floods on migration and climate policies in developing countries

Supervisor: Dr Friederike Otto; Prof Mathias Czaika, International Migration Institute
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Boipelo Tshwene-Mauchaza

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 and Policy

Yinghong Wang

Evaluating the role of sandstone treatments

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Alice Watson

"And now on Radio 4…..": imaginative geographies of migration on the airwaves

Supervisors: Dr Fiona McConnell; Professor Gillian Rose
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria

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 and Policy

Noreen Zaman

The role of soil as a method for conserving cultural stone ruins: effects of physical and chemical characteristics on stone weathering

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Guanli Zhang

Resistance to industrial pollution in rural China

Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Festus Asaaga

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 and Policy

Iliana Cardenes Trujillo

Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle

Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Heuishilja Chang

The resilience of shrinking communities in rural Japan: Can the Cittaslow approach be a possible development strategy?

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Pierre-Louis Choquet

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

Moblizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Irina Fedorenko

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: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Xi (Sisi) Hu

A temporal and spatial analysis of China’s infrastructure and economic vulnerability to climate change impacts

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Anna Hushlak

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

The role of institutional investors in financing sustainable energy

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Yingqi Liu

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 and Policy

Penelope Mealy

'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

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

The legacies of the repatriation of human remains from the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Beth Greenhough; Dr Catherine Nash (QMU); Dr Sam Alberti (Sterling)
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Rafael Pereira

Distributive justice and transportation equity: inequality in accessibility in Rio de Janeiro

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Brice Perombelon

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 and Policy; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Alexander Pfeiffer

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

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

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 and Policy

Meghan Bailey

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 and Policy

Jonathan Balls

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

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 and Policy

Lisa Choi

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

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

Tracking inclusive sustainable development at multiple scales: South Africa’s safe and just operating spaces

Supervisor: Dr Richard Bailey; Prof Mark New (UCT)
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Andrew Dansie

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 and Policy

Sasha Engelmann

The cosmological aesthetics of Tomás Saraceno's atmospheric experiments

Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Franziska Gaupp

The global impact of droughts on agricultural production

Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Professor Jim Hall
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy

Saher Hasnain

Food environments in Islamabad, Pakistan

Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Fiona McConnell
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Ashley Kingsborough

Climate change risk assessment, Decision making and the development of adaptation pathways

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Julian Kirchherr

The Anti-Dam Protest Cycle: Evidence from Asia

Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles; Dr Matthew Walton
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Christopher Lander

Foreign Direct Investment in the Russian Agrarian Sector

Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Qiong Lu

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 and Policy

Ewan Macdonald

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 and Policy

Ashley Massey

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

Development and testing of a coupled vegetation / sediment-transport model for dryland environments

Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Gregory Ortiz

New contradictions: the activism of middle-class youth in Delhi

Supervisor: Professor Craig Jeffrey
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Viresh Patel

Changing contours of sociality: Youth, education, and general relations in rural Gujarat, India

Supervisor: Dr Fiona McConnell; Dr Nikita Sud (ODID)
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Rowan Popplewell

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

Sand ramps as Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental archives: analysis from Southern Africa

Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Rachael Tily

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

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

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

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

The changing meaning of work, herding, and social relations in Mongolia: a study of value transformations and conditions for social change

Supervisors: Dr Troy Sternberg; Professor Craig Jeffrey; Prof. Dawn Chatty (QEH, Oxford)
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Samin Ahmad

What controls algal greening of sandstone heritage? An experimental approach

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Thomas Ashfold

Work, Time and Rhythm: Investigating contemporary ‘time squeeze’

Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Dr Tim Schwanen
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Cristina Cabello Briones

Effects of open shelters on the preservation of limestone remains at archaeological sites

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Becky Catarelli

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

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 and Policy

Tahia Devisscher

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 and Policy

Adam Elliott-Cooper

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

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

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 and Policy

Rory Hill

'Local, loyal and constant'? On the dynamism of terroir in sustainable agriculture

Supervisor: Professor Sarah Whatmore
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Carlo Inverardi Ferri

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

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

Finding time in the geographies of food: how heritage food discourses shape notions of place

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Yuge Ma

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 and Policy; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

David Maguire

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

Risk-based flood protection decisions in the context of climatic variability and change

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Andre Neves

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

Corporate engagement for sustainable business in development

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Nicholas Simcik-Arese

The commons in a compound: morality, ownership, and legality in Cairo's squatted gated community

Supervisor: Professor Craig Jeffrey; Michael Keith (COMPAS, Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Chase Sova

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 and Policy

Sarah Terry

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

Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Kerrie Thornhill

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

Occupants' interaction with low-carbon retrofitted homes and its impact on energy use

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Rajat Gupta
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Charlotte von Mangoldt

Student environmentalism in Beijing, China

Supervisors: Professor Craig Jeffrey; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Liwen Wang

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

Improving non-destructive techniques for in situ stone weathering research

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Yin Yang

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

Strategic appraisal of interdependent infrastructure provision

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Zichen Zhang

Electric vehicles in China: past, present and future

Supervisor: Professor David Banister
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Christopher Allen

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 and Policy

Edoardo Borgomeo

Water resources adaptation decisions in the context of climatic non-stationarity and variability

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Jeremy Brice

Materials, markets, and the making of South Australian wine: uncertainties, vulnerabilities, valuation

Supervisor: Professor Sarah Whatmore
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Emma Cardwell

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

Education, class, and youth: young people's experiences of private higher education in Singapore

Supervisors: Professor Craig Jeffrey; Dr Johanna Waters
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Myung-Ae (Chloe) Choi

Governing Deceleration: the natures, times and spaces of ecotourism in South Korea

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Daniel Cooper

Under Mount Roraima: The revitalization of a shamanic landscape and practice

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Eden Cottee-Jones

Isolated Ficus trees and conservation in human-modified landscapes

Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Cecilia Dahlsjo

The role of termite assemblages in ecosystem processes in tropical forests

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Kate Parr; Dr Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Alexis Gutierrez

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 and Policy

Heather Hachigian

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

Heritage conservation and urban revitalization in China

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Timothy Hodgetts

Enacting connectivity: woodland mammal conservation practices in England and Wales

Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Ryan Hogarth

The evolutionary economic geography of climate change

Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Mary Kanui

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

Climate processes over the Himalayas: added value from high resolution regional climate modelling

Supervisor: Professor Mark New
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Andrea Kölbel

Youth, aspiration, and mobility: young people debating their potential futures in Nepal

Supervisors: Professor Craig Jeffrey; Professor Linda McDowell; Professor David Gellner (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Ashok Kumar

Building workers' power against globally mobile capital: case studies from the transnational garment sector

Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Craig Jeffrey
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Sarah-Jane Littleford

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

Investigating the interactions of travel behaviour and wellbeing: a mixed-methods case study of Penarth and Cardiff, Wales

Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Jones
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Thomas Matthews

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

The economic governance of global commodity markets

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Amber Murrey

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

Educated youth in Kenya: Negotiating waithood by greening livelihoods

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Sahar Romani

Generation NGO: youth and development in urban India

Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Craig Jeffrey
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Dane Rook

Doxastic spaces: a new approach to relational beliefs and unstable neglect

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Nick Eyre
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Caroline Schmidt

Law, geography and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for REDD+ national implementation

Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Rocio Urrutia

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 and Policy

Alexandra Yannias

'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

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

Observed climate trends and projected climate change over the Arabian peninsula

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Malek Al-Chalabi

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

Towards a non-representational geography of artistic practice

Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Jennifer Booth

Back to Nature: Geologically informed consolidates for stone museum artefacts

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Yonique Campbell

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

The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport

Supervisors: Professor Mark New; Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Erin Freeland-Ballantyne

Sustainability's paradox: community health, climate change and petro-capitalism

Supervisors: Professor Andrew Barry; Dr Tom Thornton
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Alexandra Girard

Women and work in irrigated landscapes in rural India

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Rachel James

Implications of global warming for African climate

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Darren Jeffers

A palaeo-evironmental history of the southern Bekaa Valley and the Lebanon Mountains, Lebanon during the last glacial period (~112-35 ka BP)

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Nicholas Kreston

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

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

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

Marginalized street traders or strategic entrepreneurs? Social networks, political structures and Kolkata’s young street vendors

Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Craig Jeffrey
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Carly Leighton

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: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Eveliina Lyytinen

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

Corporate water risk and return

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Rob Hope
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Mari Mulyani

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

Climate change in East Africa

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Aisha Saad

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

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

Juan Arredondo

Policy-making and adaptation to climate change in Mexico: reducing the barriers and maximizing the benefits of government and corporate responses in the context of uncertainty

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Chris West
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Ian Ashpole

Patterns and causes of spatial and temporal variability of dust presence in the central and western Sahara

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Professor Richard Washington; Dr Giles Wiggs
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy

Maan Barua

The political ecology of human-elephant relationships in India

Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Eda Beyazit

Transport and socio-spatial inequalities: the case of the Istanbul metro

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Moshe Givoni
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Alvar Closas

Burning water - the state, irrigation technology and the production of scarcity in Spain

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Christian Ellermann

Climate change policy in China: tracing successful sustainable development policies and measures

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Jimin Zhao
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Dorothee Franzen

Impact of regulation on the asset investment of defined benefit pension funds

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Thomas Jellis

Spaces of aesthetic experiment

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Kärg Kama

Unconventional futures: anticipation, materiality, and the market in oil shale development

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Barry
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Lip Khoon Kho

Carbon cycling in Bornean tropical forests

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Eelke Kraak

Dams of Damocles: between rivers, states and geopolitics

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Debora Ley

Sustainable development and climate change integration in rural Central America

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Chris West
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Philip Mann

Medium / long-term holistic energy planning for oil importing in developing countries

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Brenda Boardman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Victoria Mason

Connecting canals: exercises in recombinant ecology

Supervisor: Professor Sarah Whatmore
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Robert Fleming Puckett

The strange case of the landed poor: a decade of continued poverty, community divisions, and frustrated attempts by outsiders to mobilise San Bushman communities to establish long-term livelihoods on their new lands in South Africa

Supervisor: Dr Tony Lemon
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Muhammad Rahiz

Droughts in future climate change in the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Professor Mark New
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Jan Rosenow

Politics of change: energy efficiency policy in Britain and Germany

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Justin van der Merwe

African attitudes towards South Africa: understanding South Africa's soft power in sub-Saharan Africa

Supervisor: Dr Tony Lemon
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Karen Anderton

Sub-national government responses to reducing the climate impact of cars

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Heike Schroeder
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Victoria Arnold

Religiosity and religious culture in post-Soviet Russia: the role of sacred spaces

Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot; Dr C. Kelly (Modern Languages, Oxford)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Kathleen Buckingham

The marginalisation of an orphan species: examining bamboos fit within international forestry institutions

Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Michelle Buckley

Building the global Gulf city: tracing urban geographies of labour and capital in Dubai, UAE

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Emily Coffey

Determination of baseline ecological conditions in the humid highlands of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador

Supervisors: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Dr Cynthia Froyd
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Zoë Enstone

Becoming Goth: Geographies of an (un)popular culture

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Joe Gerlach

Vernacular mappings: affect, virtuality, performance

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Kate Halladay

Climate and Andean montane forests: the role of clouds

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Mark New
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Amrita Hari

Migration of Indian immigrants in Canada

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Dominique Henri

The integration of Inuit traditional ecological knowledge and western science in wildlife and resource management in Nunavut, Canada

Supervisors: Professor Andrew Barry; Dr Tom Thornton
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Nicholas Howarth

An integrated theory of economic and political change: including four papers on the shift to a low carbon economy

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Leander Kandilige

Transnationalism and the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK: Regional inequalities and the developmental effects of remittances at the sub-national level

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Ali Rogers
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Caroline King

Living with environmental change in the endorheic oasis systems of the northern Sahara

Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Jian Liu

Electric cars in China: energy infrastructure and market potentials

Supervisor: Professor David Banister
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Arnoldo Matus Kramer

Adaptation to climate change in a rapidly urbanizing coast: the opportunities and barriers for adaptation in the Yucatan Caribbean coast

Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Caitlin McElroy

Corporate social responsibility in the extractive and energy industries: effects on resource use and indigenous development

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Andrew Barry
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Leticia Ochoa Ochoa

Amphibian diversity conservation in a changing world: a view from Mexico

Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Laura Pereira

Private sector adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the food system: food security implications for South Africa and Brazil

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Mick Blowfield (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Maria Price

The Trans-European Networks – transport cohesion in south-west Europe

Supervisor: Professor David Banister; Prof. John Preston (Southampton University)
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Esther Rootham

(Re)Working citizenship: young people and colour-blind politics

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Sharad Saxena

Pathways to a sustainable transport future: developing and applying a futures decision making framework

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Brenda Boardman
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Rajiv Sharma

The role of private institutional investors in developing urban infrastructure assets

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Jiazhe Sun

Climate change, sustainable power sources, and developing economies

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Christiane Wirth Forsberg

'Mobile citizens': living the European dream?

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell; Dr. B. Anderson (COMPAS, Oxford)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Sebastian Abrahamsson

Invasive science and inventive arts: towards a cartography of bodily inner spaces

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Nihan Akyelken

Capital and development in social and cultural contexts

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Csaba Burger

Occupational pensions in Germany - an economic geography

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Drew Foxall

Mapping ethnic relations: cartography, geopolitics, and security in the North Caucasus

Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Cecile Girardin

Tropical montane forest ecosystem responses to mean temperature change

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Taylor Gray

A corporate geography of Canada: governance and networks

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Elizabeth S. Jeffers

The dynamics of ecosystem processes over successional time scales: plant population responses to environmental change and their feedback effects on ecosystem functioning

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Dr Mike Bonsall (Dept. of Zoology, Oxford)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Ting-Yu Kang

Internet transnational communication and diasporic nationalism: imaging China in online community

Supervisors: Dr Andrew Currah; Dr Ali Rogers
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Gavin Killip

The role of SME building tradespeople in transforming the UK housing stock to meet the climate change agenda

Supervisor: Dr Brenda Boardman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Stephen Lew

Meaningful ESG impact measurement and integration

Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Danae Maniatis

Methodologies for measuring aboveground biomass in the Congo basin forest in a UNFCCC REDD+ context

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Lisa Mol

Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Kamakshi Mubarak

Everyday networks, politics and inequalities in post-tsunami recovery: fisher livelihoods in south Sri Lanka

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Craig Jeffrey
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Goranji Nonejuie

An analysis of the role of dynamic Participatory Geographical Information Systems in supporting water stakeholders in decision-making processes in Rayong Basin Thailand

Supervisor: Dr Rachael McDonnell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Bernardo Peredo

Forest governance and development: meandering paradigms in the Bolivian lowlands

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Tom Thornton
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Ameyali Ramos Castillo

Governance, indigenous rights, and water in Chiapas, Mexico

Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Joel Scriven

Markets and payments for ecosystem services: engaging REDD+ on Peru's Amazonian frontier

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Martino Tran

A systems analysis of vehicle electrification for climate and energy security policy in the UK

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Christian Brand
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Erika Trigoso

Dynamic vulnerability in Andean landscapes: the case of Puno, Peru

Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Royd Vinya

Stem hydraulic architecture and xylem vulnerability to cavitation for Miombo woodland canopy tree species

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr N. Brown (Plant Sciences, Oxford)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Claire Woods

Legal frameworks for sustainable investment

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Liana Anderson

Multitemporal analysis of the evergreen forest dynamics in Amazonia

Supervisors: Dr Richard Ladle; Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Atif Syed Ansar

'New departures' in infrastructure provision: an ongoing evolution away from physical assets to user needs

Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Dr E. Thun (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Jennifer Barth

Taste, ethics and the market in Guatemalan coffee: an ethnographic study

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Barry; Prof. Vikki Bell (Dept. of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Elinor Breman

Pattern and processes in grass-dominated ecosystems: vegetation dynamics at the grassland-savannah ecotone in South Africa during the Holocene

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Dr L. Gillson (University of Cape Town)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Michael Ekers

Working the landscape: cultures of labour in the British Columbia tree planting sector

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Katie Fenn

Carbon cycling in a British deciduous woodland: processes, budgets, climate and phenology

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr M. Morecroft (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Alan Gamlen

The emigration state system: New Zealand and its diaspora in comparative context

Supervisor: Dr Ali Rogers; Prof. S. Vertovec (COMPAS, Oxford)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Alex Guerra Noriega

Climate-related disaster risk in mountain areas: the Guatemalan highlands at the start of the 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Eric Knight

The finance of climate change

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Natasha Kuruppu

Confronting climate change and variability: enhancing adaptive capacity of water resource management in Kirabaii

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor Mark New
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Leng Lee

Rural-urban migration in China

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Antony Millner

Information, decisions, and behaviour: theoretical essays on the value of climate predictions

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Alexandra Morel

Environmental monitoring of oil palm expansion in Malaysian Borneo and analysis of two international governance initiatives relating to palm oil production

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Anders Munk

Risking the flood: cartographies of things to come

Supervisor: Professor Sarah Whatmore
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Yuko Onishi

Climate change and conservation of Japanese flora: the potential impacts and the effects on protected areas

Supervisor: Dr Pam Berry
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Mike Riddell

Hunting, livelihoods and conservation in northern republic of Congo

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Anna Lawrence (Forestry Commission)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Alistair Seddon

Palaeoecology, biogeography and evolution of benthic littoral diatoms from the Galapagos Islands

Supervisors: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Dr Cynthia Froyd
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Allen Shaw

India's electricity system: power for the states

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Brenda Boardman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Stephanie Sodero

Policy in motion: reassembling carbon pricing policy development in the personal transport sector in British Columbia

Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Karen Lucas
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Ville-Pekka Sorsa

Pension fund capitalism in Europe: institutional organisation and governance of investment in Finnish pension insurance companies

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

David Stainforth

Uncertainty and confidence in predictions of climate change

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor Mark New
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Rebecca White

Carbon governance in UK liquid milk systems

Supervisor: Dr Brenda Boardman; Dr J. Park (University of Reading)
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Katherine Wilkinson

God-created Heaven and Earth... man-made climate change: American evangelical discourses on global climate change

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Dave Frame; Dr M. Boykoff
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Prezemyslaw Zelazowski

Contemporary and future extent of evergreen tropical forests: insights from remote sensing and climate change simulations

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Alison Ashlin

Biodiversity and natural disasters: opportunities for change in post-tsunami Sri Lanka

Supervisors: Dr Richard Ladle; Dr Emily Boyd
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Adam Bumpus

Carbon development: a political ecology analysis of the use of carbon offset projects local and global

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Nathalie Butt

Tropical climatology and biodiversity.

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Mark New
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

John Cole

Clean development mechanism: foreign investment in sustainable infrastructure in developing countries

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Dave Frame
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Alexandra Conliffe

The combined impacts of political and environmental change on rural livelihoods in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr H. Osbahr (University of Reading)
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy

Adam Dixon

The geography of European financial integration and long-term asset management

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Paul Domjan

Political, economic and social externalities of energy investment in comparative perspective.

Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot; Dr P. Oppenheimer (Chris Church, Oxford)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Roberto Duran-Fernandez

Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure on economic development in Mexico: An empirical approach.

Supervisor: Dr Georgina Santos
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

David Graham

Structural and behavioural change in British Jewry.

Supervisors: Professor Ceri Peach; Dr Stefan Buzar
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Nynke Hofstra

Changes in daily climate and runoff trends in Europe.

Supervisors: Professor Mark New; Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Owen Horwood

The challenge of change: a study of water governance in the Olifants river basin, South Africa

Supervisors: Professor W. Mike Edmunds; Dr Rachael McDonnell
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Georgia Jettinger

Unravelling gender and participation in migrant associations. An ethnographic study of a Senegalese village community in Paris, Dakar and Sinthiane

Supervisor: Dr Ali Rogers; Prof. S. Vertovec (COMPAS, Oxford)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Janelle Knox-Hayes

Constructing an international market for carbon trading: an institutional perspective.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Katja Lehmann

Seasonal and diurnal hydrological patterns along a Cloud Forest gradient in the Peruvian Andes.

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Mark New
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy

Ana Malhado

The functional biogeography of the Amazon forest canopy.

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Luba Mandzy Herring

Vegetation dynamics and environmental change in Mongolia.

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Dr D. Brockington (University of Manchester)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Daniel McGahey

Impact of veterinary fences on environment and society in northern Botswana.

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Emmanuel Nuesiri

Cameroon: case study of the Bimbia-Bonadikombo community forest

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Dan Brockington (Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

James Paterson

The effects of climate change on structure and function of ash woodlands in the UK

Supervisor: Dr Pam Berry; Dr G. Masters
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Sarah Peers

Power and protest: geographies of power and resistance in two cotton mill communities in England and New England: Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire and the Boston Manufacturing Company, Waltham, Massachusetts c. 1790-1860

Supervisor: Dr John Langton
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Adam Ramadan

Violent geographies of exile: Palestinian refugees and refugee camps in Lebanon

Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Dr Ali Rogers
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Pamela Richardson-Ngwenya

The ethical geographies of Caribbean sugar

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Colin Clarke
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Hassan Sachedina

Conservation and livelihood transformation: drivers of land use change and pastoral livelihoods in Simanjiro District, Tanzania.

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Prof. W. Beinart (Politics, Oxford); Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Troy Sternberg

Effect of water and land use change on the Mongolian environment.

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Nick Middleton
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Abigail Stone

Multi-proxy reconstruction of late Quaternary climate dynamics in western Southern Africa.

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Malika Virah-Sawmy

Using palaeoecology to address conservation-mining conflicts in south-east Madagascar.

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis; Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Corinne Weaver

Turbulent flow systems and dune dynamics.

Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Nadia Abu-Zahra

The role of identity documentation in legal geographies and daily life in Palestine

Supervisor: Dr Tony Lemon
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Alex Arnall

Development interventions in Mozambique: processes of NGO-community interaction in two flood-affected resettlement communities

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Chasca Twyman, University of Sheffield.
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Louise Ashley

The new economy of inequality: the reproduction of disadvantage in the UK's legal sector

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Sallie Burrough

Late Quarternary paleolacustrine environments in the Middle Kalahari, Botswana.

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Caroline Cheeseman

Geography and modernity: changing land, law, and life on Cranborne Chase in the Nineteenth Century

Supervisor: Dr John Langton
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Florence Crick

Exposure to drought: adaptive strategies among rural societies in Africa

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr H. Osbahr (University of Reading)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Kristina Duffin

Spatial and temporal vegetation patterns in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Hang Gao

Chinese dust storms: origins and mechanisms - a TOMS based research

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Janice Golding

Change in plant biodiversity of the Flora Zambesiaca region of south-central Africa.

Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker; Dr T. Dawson (University of Edinburgh); Dr P. Smith (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Lisa Hagerman

Public pension fund investment in urban revitalization.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Dorothy John

Caribbean migration to Britain: economic integration, social assimilation, and beating the political and social odds?

Supervisors: Dr Tony Lemon; Professor Ceri Peach
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Gillian Kay

Mechanisms of southern African rainfall variability in coupled climate models.

Supervisors: Professor Mark New; Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Ashby Monk

The burden of corporate pension liabilities in the emerging global economy.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Jennifer Morrissey

Life on the outside: negotiating school to work transitions

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Tom Simchak

Changing cultures and identities in Shetland's oil era

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Barry
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Murray Simpson

The impacts of community benefit tourism on rural livelihoods and poverty reduction.

Supervisor: Dr Tony Lemon
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Kendra Strauss

Choice, risk and the context of decision making in UK pensions.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Emiko Caerlewy-Smith

Investment decision-making: attitudes and actions of UK defined benefit pension fund trustees.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Ben Champion

Applied hybrid geographies: complexity and sustainability in eastern Kansas

Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Bethany Ehlmann

Developing quantitative techniques for evaluating rock breakdown morphology: a case study of basalt boulders in the channelled scablands, Washington, USA

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Sebastian Engelstaedter

An analysis of the role of the atmosphere in modulating desert dust variability: controls on emission and atmospheric transport

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Blanca Figueroa Rangel

Long-term forest dynamics in high altitude mountains of west-central Mexico: The human and the climate dimension in the Holocene.

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

John Gates

Groundwater recharge and paleohydrology of the Badain Jaran, north-western China.

Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor W. Mike Edmunds
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Oleg Golubchikov

Cities of the Russian northwest in a new space economy: global forces, local context.

Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Lynne Jones

The impact of HIV/AIDS on children in Swaziland: opportunities and constraints for scaling up interventions.

Supervisor: Dr Tony Lemon
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Rashid Mbaziira

The Nile basin initiative: towards a regime of cooperation.

Supervisor: Dr Rachael McDonnell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Susannah Sallu

Biodiversity dynamics, knowledges and livelihoods in Kalahari dryland biomes.

Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Chasca Twyman (University of Sheffield)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Mandar Trivedi

Conservation under climate change: the potential role of microclimatic heterogeneity.

Supervisor: Dr Pam Berry; Dr T. Dawson (University of Edinburgh); Dr Mike Morecroft (CEH, Oxford)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Steve Ward

Habitat reconstruction of cave sites in the western Mediterranean during the demise of Neanderthals.

Supervisor: Professor Katherine J. Willis
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Christian Brand

Exploring climate change emissions from personal travel activity of individuals and households

Supervisor: Dr Brenda Boardman; Dr J. Preston
Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Laura James

Working women: gender, class and place.

Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

James Kierstead

Behavioural responses to photovoltaic systems in the UK domestic sector.

Supervisor: Dr Brenda Boardman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Myung-Hee (Anna) Kim

China-to-Korea: Ethnic labour migration: A human geographical perspective.

Supervisor: Professor Ceri Peach; Dr S. Castles
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Wai-ki (Elvis) Luk

British new wave Chinese immigration: subethnicity, concentrations, diffusions, and diffused concentrations.

Supervisor: Professor Ceri Peach; Dr S. Castles
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

James Salo

Corporate environmental performance: governance, intangible assets, and financial markets.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Alexander Shaw

The characterisation of calcrete based on its environmental settings within selected regions of the Kalahari, Southern Africa.

Supervisor: Professor Andrew Goudie
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Graham Sinden

Renewable electricity generation: resource characteristics and implications of wind, wave and tidal stream power in the UK

Supervisor: Dr Brenda Boardman
Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

Thomas Stevens

Late Quaternary climate recorded in Chinese loess: OSL analysis of record continuity and preservation.

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr S. Stokes
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Morag Torrance

The financialisation of the urban infrastructure landscape: unravelling financial flows into urban geographies.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr E. Swyngedouw; Prof. N. Brenner
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place