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

Water security and poverty: interactions and tipping points, assessing linkages between water risks and economic growth with a focus on coastal areas of Bangladesh

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

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 refugees: an ethnography of police work and community policing in Kenya's refugee camps

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 cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

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 cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Pierre-Louis Choquet

A shared responsibility in the face of climate change: the case for "unburnable carbon"

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

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 cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

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

Irina Fedorenko

How the Internet and social networks influence the development of Chinese and Russian environmental non-governmental organisations

Supervisors: Professor Judith Pallot; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

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

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 cluster: 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

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: 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

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 cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

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

Michelle Lanzoni

Desert rain events: soil moisture and nutrient cycling around dryland plants

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 cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

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

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

Penelope Mealy

Which way to prosperity? Mapping and modelling the process of economic development

Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Prof Doyne Famer
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

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

Stephanie Mooij

What are the major obstacles facing corporations in the uproar of ESG and what can be done to fix that? Reporting fatigue and ambiguous expectations

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

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

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 cluster: 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

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

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

Rafael Pereira

Justice issues in transport policies

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

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 cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Joseph Poore

The global 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 cluster: Climate Systems and Policy

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 multi-jurisdictional study of proxy voting by retail investors, with specific reference to their interest in Responsible Investing

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

Climate Change Geopolitics in Kiribati: Adaptation, Development 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 cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brice Perombelon

Geopolitical Arctic(s). Indigenous representations of geo-power: the case of the Sahtu Denes

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Tom Thornton
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge

Alexander Pfeiffer

Stranded assets and debt - how debt markets are likely to react to a re-valuation of carbon heavy assets

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