School of Geography and the Environment

Michael 't Sas-Rolfes

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

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

Daniel Adshead

Infrastructure for sustainable development

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Galina Alova

The low-carbon transition of the global electricity sector

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Maryam Altaf

Ride-Sharing - User practice and social impact of the platform-based gig economy model in the context of transport and mobility in Pakistan

Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Dr Debbie Hopkins
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Bailey Anderson

Statistical attribution of the influence of environmental variables on hydrologic nonstationarity

Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Louise Slater

Andrew Armstrong

Financing Piped Water Services in Rural Africa and Asia

Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Dr Johanna Koehler
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Mari Arold

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

Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

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

Moritz Baer

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

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

Tim Baxter

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

Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Martin Coombes
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Olivia Becher

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

Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Raghav Pant
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Giulia Belloni

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

Supervisor: Professor Gillian Rose
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Iqbal Singh Bhalla

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

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

Faizal Bin Abdul Aziz

Exploring the Affective and Emotional Experiences of Singapore-based Flight Attendants amidst a Global Pandemic

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Debbie Hopkins
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Dáire Browne

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles; Professor Grant Ritchie (Department of Chemistry)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Joris Bücker

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

Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Marcus Buechel

Comprehending changing climate and landscape influence on hydrological systems

Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Louise Slater
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems

Paola Castaneda

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

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

Thomas Caton Harrison

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

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

Changsoon Choi

Climate-smart green infrastructure

Supervisors: Dr Pam Berry; Alison Smith
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Tina Christmann

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

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Alex Clark

Stranded assets? Public management of fossil fuel assets in the international system

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Sergio Henrique Collaço de Carvalho

Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries

Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Cheli Cresswell

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

Supervisor: Professor Gillian Rose
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

David Crowhurst

Dynamics Controlling the Seasonal Cycle of Congo Basin Evaporation

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

Maria Dance

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

Supervisor: Dr Marc Macias-Fauria; Dr Erin Saupe (Earth Sciences)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

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

Gaurav Dubey

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

Supervisor: Professor Tim Schwanen
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Jakob Engel

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

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

Sophie Erfurth

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

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Joshua Ettinger

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

Supervisors: Dr Pete Walton; Dr Friederike Otto; Dr James Painter
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Joshua Evans

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

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

Safa Fanaian

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

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Rob Ferritto

Engaging men as allies to women's empowerment when implementing gender-based WASH interventions

Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles

Bill Finnegan

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

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Dr Tina Fawcett

Adam Formica

Identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modeling

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

Lena I. Fuldauer

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Sarah Gall

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Blen Taye Gemeda

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Gina Gilson

Governing informal water markets in Eastern Africa

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick

Trisha Gopalakrishna

Trade-offs between carbon, biodiversity and water on restoration of Indian tropical forests

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

Richard Grove

Improving the evaluation of conservation treatments for deteriorating sandstone in built heritage

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Tom Learner (Getty Conservation Institute)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Carolina Gueiros

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

Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Constance McDermott
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Wenbo Guo

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

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

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

Yifan Han

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

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

Oscar Hartman Davies

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

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

Dong-Li Hong

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

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

Britain Hopkins

‘Accepting the competitive challenge’: the intellectual and legislative origins of the student loan industry in the U.S.

Supervisors: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Ian Klinke
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Ohis Ilalokhoin

Resilience Assessment of Complex Infrastructure Networks - a system-of-systems approach to rail networks at national scale

Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Raghav Pant
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Raffaele Ippolito

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

Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Luis Iturra

Exploring urban inequality through unveiling uneven atmospheres in everyday mobility practices

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

Katherine Jang

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion

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

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Alex Vasudevan
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Jimmy Jia

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

Supervisors: Dr Ben Caldecott; Dr Atif Ansar
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Kristina Kaempfer

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

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

Nameerah Khan

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

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

Tarek Kheir Eddine

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

Supervisor: Dr Fiona McConnell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

James A. King

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

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

Krister Koskelo

Incorporating the costs of physical climate risks: A portfolio analysis approach

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

Katie Kowal

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

Supervisor: Dr Louise Slater

Lucas Kruitwagen

The role of disclosure in the management of environment-related risks in the investment value chain

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Nicola Kühn

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

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

Jae-Young Lee

The role of water quality in regional water resources assessment

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

Kris Lee

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

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

Faryal Leghari

Could displacement have brought about a pronounced role for women refugees from patriarchal pastoral communities in a geopolitically strategic region? A study of women refugees in South Waziristan in Northwestern Pakistan post-conflict

Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions

Anaïs Lemyre

Socio-Demographic and Epidemiological Perspectives on Human Mobility in Health Geography

Supervisor: Dr Janey Messina
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Sabrina Li

Human-Environment Interactions on Infectious Disease Risk in Brazil

Supervisor: Dr Janey Messina; Prof Oliver Pybus (Zoology)
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Shona Loong

At the margins of a "development darling": civil society, 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: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions

Yangsiyu Lu

How does environmental policy impact firms? Evidence from China

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Jacquelyn Pless
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul

Understanding West African cocoa smallholders' adaption to drought: assessing interactions between institutions, poverty and resilience

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott; Dr Mark Hirons
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Alexander Manby

Between Instability and Stasis: Youth and Futurity in Nagaland, Northeast India

Supervisors: Dr Fiona McConnell; Dr Sneha Krishnan
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Diana Mastracci

How can information communication technology (ICT) assist Inupiaq hunters to respond/adapt to rapid climate change? Barrow, Alaska a case study

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

Ian Maybury

From books to bricks: hyperspectral imaging for heritage

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Hibba Mazhary

Distancing death: welfare, slaughter and consumption in the British halal meat industry

Supervisor: Dr Beth Greenhough
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Marcel Metzner

Taking Planetary Boundaries Seriously: The Role of Accounting Practices in Corporate Climate Change Mitigation

Supervisor: Dr Caitlin McElroy
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Alex Midlen

The making of a global blue economy ‘governmentality’? Alternative futures in governance of marine resources.

Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Samuel Miller McDonald

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

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

Alejandra Mora Soto

Modelling kelp forest distribution in the Magellanic Province, Subantarctic South America

Supervisor: Dr Marc Macias-Fauria
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Helen Morrissey

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

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

Jelani Munroe

Can austerity transform the public sector and services for its citizens? Lessons from Jamaica and the IMF since 2010

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Emily Neil

A new management support tool for elephant poaching mitigation in Babile Elephant Sanctuary, Ethiopia: an application of agent-based modelling

Supervisors: Professor Richard Bailey; Dr Ernesto Carrella
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Environmental Interactions

Saskia Nowicki

Health Risk in Complex Adaptive Rural Water Systems

Supervisors: Professor David Bradley; Dr Katrina Charles
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Adam Packer

Governing Oxfordshire’s smart city and innovation-led growth agenda: What is the role of citizens?

Supervisor: Professor Gillian Rose
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Janak Padhiar

Towards understanding life course geographies of young Afghans in India

Supervisor: Dr Fiona McConnell; Bakewell, O.
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Amelia Paszkowski

The Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta: a study into the adaptability of the delta system to flood risk in a changing climate

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Ignacio Perez

Examining the role of data in smart city management: following the transport data dispositif in Santiago de Chile

Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Professor Gillian Rose
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Rebecca Peters

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

Laura Picot

Food crops and the role of farmers' gender and intersectional identities in shaping climate resilience in Ghana

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Elena Pierard

Anticipating sustainability transitions: how energy majors engage with cleaner technologies

Supervisor: Dr Aoife Brophy
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Kat Rahmat

Elephant Time: Multi-Temporality as Attunement with More-Than-Human Others

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

Xiyu Ren

The impact of the energy transition on the economy: studies on the pattern and the relationship between policy contexts, firm decisions and innovation choices

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr François Lafond
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

José Luis Reséndiz

Transition finance and sustainability-linked assets: metrics and incentive structures

Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott

Kathryn Royce

Preservation of geological collections

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Elisa Schramm

The space-times of post-capitalist transformation: More-than-human affects in eco-communities in the wider Barcelona area

Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Qiujie Shi

Beijing and London Compared: How Can Fast-Developing Cities Broaden Urban Knowledge?

Supervisors: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Janey Messina
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

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

Theo Stanley

The epistemic politics of nature-based solutions: Knowing carbon in Scottish land governance

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

Simphiwe Laura Stewart

A comparative political geography of populism: the rise of the EFF (in South Africa) and the Rassemblement National (in France) 1990 - 2019.

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Danny Dorling
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Rupert Stuart-Smith

Attribution science in the courts: establishing the liability of greenhouse gas emitters for climate change damages

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Friederike Otto; Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (Climate Analytics)
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Simona Sulikova

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

Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Linus Mattauch
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions

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

Vance Z H Tan

Strategic assessment of long-term plans for adaptation to flood risk at a national scale

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Nina Teng

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

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

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

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

Jasper Verschuur

Vulnerability and resilience of global port infrastructure and dependent supply-chains to natural disasters

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Elco Koks (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems

Johannes Wagner

Research project on Rural Water Finance in Africa, with fieldwork in rural Mali and in cooperation with UDUMA.

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

Ella Walsh

Late Quaternary hydrological change from valley fill complexes in Namibia

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Sallie Burrough
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems

Yinghong Wang

Studying deterioration of sandstone cave-temple in western China and preventive conservation strategies for its preservation

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: Place, Power, Politics

Annie E.A. Welden

Animal Infrastructure: The animals enrolled as Nature-based Solutions

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

Charles Wight

Scarcity and Scale: Designing Water Markets for People and the Environment

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Environmental Interactions

Christian Wilson

Paris Aligned Portfolios and the Real Economy

Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Sam Woor

The evolution of Late Quaternary alluvial landscapes in northern Oman

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Ash Parton
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems

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

Huanyuan Zhang

Calculate tropical NPP by upscaling empirical findings from plot-level forest inventory to a larger scale

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras; Professor Iain Colin Prentice (Imperial College London)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Kevin Rattue

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

Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Liam Saddington

Rising Seas and Sinking Islands: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in Tuvalu and Kiribati

Supervisors: Dr Ian Klinke; Dr Fiona McConnell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

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; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Filipa Soares

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

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

Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan

The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Hanno Brankamp

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

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Oliver Owen, Oxford Department of International Development
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Laura Brinker

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

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Vanessa Burns

Oceanic assembleges: conceputalising El Nino Southern Oscillation as a more than human oceanography

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Eric (Tak Hin) Chan

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

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

Micol Chiesa

Do firms forget about the environment? Evidence from publicly listed corporations

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Caitlin McElroy
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Tess Doeffinger

Evaluating Water Security: Diagnostics and Trends

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

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

Risk Narratives and Institutional Responses: Charting the Evolution of Unregulated Drinking Water Services in Rural Bangladesh, 1972-2016

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope

Tom Hashimoto

Financial Centre Development in Central and Eastern Europe: The Rise of Warsaw and the Hierarchy of Regional Financial Centres

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

Dina Hestad

Organising Urban Sustainability Transformations: Exploring the role, abilities, and potential of Sustainability-Oriented Hybrid Organisations

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

Jiashun Huang

Infrastructure, the Economy and Policy

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Doyne Farmer (INET)
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Michelle Lanzoni

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester)
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Nadezhda Mamontova

Spatial Knowledge, Language, and Adaptation to the Landscape among the Ewenki of Central and Northeastern Siberia

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

Martin Michette

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

John Mittermeier

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

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

Kelsi Nagy

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

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

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

Jose Ramirez Mendiola

Residential electricity demand: a modelling analysis of the dynamics of household activity and energy consumption patterns

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

Jennifer Richards

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

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

June Rubis

(Re)imagining forest conservation landscapes and development pathways: indigenous strategies in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

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

Laure Rurangwa

Impact of land-use change on bird communities of a Rwandan Biodiversity hotspot

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

Aven Satre Meloy

Characterising temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption using advanced multivariate statistics

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

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

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

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

Aoife Bennett

A political ecology of smallholder oil palm production and forest conservation in the Amazon frontier: towards a balanced approach to development in Ucayali, Peru

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

Serkan Birgel

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: Place, Power, Politics

Catherine Buckland

New methods for identifying dune system reactivation drivers and responses, Nebraska Sandhills

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

Anabelle Cardoso

The role of fire and elephants in shaping a central African forest-savannah mosaic

Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras; Dr Katharine Abernethy (University of Stirling)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Theodor Cojoianu

Environmental investment strategies across the investment value chain: addressing the investment gap in clean technologies - from asset owners to entrepreneurs

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

Amy Creese

Climate change in the Congo Basin: evaluating coupled models

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Nina Doering

Public participation, democratic decision-making, and extractive resource management in Greenland

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Richard Powell
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Andrew Dwyer

Malware Ecologies: A Politics of Cybersecurity

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Alexander Eduful

Neoliberalism, urban development and Accra's (Ghana) shopping malls as new spaces of urban consumption

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Lucie Fusade

Designing and evaluating repointing lime mortars for the conservation of historic buildings in highly exposed environments

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Sofya Gavrilova

The present taxidermied: Soviet ‘common unsaids’ in Russian krayevedcheskiy museums

Supervisors: Professor Judith Pallot; Dr Ian Klinke
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Jennifer Gooden

From William James to Twenty-First Century landowners: perspectives on private land conservation

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

Agne Gvozdevaite

The role of economic, venation and morphological leaf traits in plant and ecosystem function along forest-savannah gradients in the tropics

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

Toby Jackson

Tree biomechanics: a study of the mechanical stability of broadleaf trees

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

Jacob Katuva

Groundwater and welfare in coastal Kenya

Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Dr Dustin Garrick
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Xiawei Liao

Future conflicts of water demands and availability in China's power sector

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

Scott MacDonald

An international comparison of voluntary green electricity tariffs

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre
Research cluster: Climate Systems

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; Environmental Interactions

Peter Martin

Arctic science in circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c. 1880-1914

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Emma McIntosh

An evidence-based evaluation of systematic conservation planning

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

Christine Moore

Complex Mosaic Landscapes: Novel methodologies to understand dynamics of Cocoa farming in Ghana

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

Callum Munday

Representation of southern African climate in coupled models

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

Cyrus Nayeri

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

Supervisors: Professor Jamie Lorimer; Dr Kärg Kama; Dr Beth Greenhough
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; 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; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

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

Homero Paltan Lopez

Surface water sensitivity to climate variability

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

Helge Peters

More-than-rational modelling: the pragmatics and politics of social simulation in fisheries management

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

Ruksana Rimi

Anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather events: implications for Bangladesh

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

Aniket Shah

The economic geography of development banking for sustainable development

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

Guanli Zhang

Digesting industrialisation: social changes in two industrialised villages in east China

Supervisors: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Festus Asaaga

Land rights, tenure security and sustainable land use in rural Ghana

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

Negar Elodie Behzadi

Gendered coal struggles at the margins: the working lives of men, women and children in Soviet and post-Soviet Tajikistan

Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Iliana Cardenes Trujillo

Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle

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

Heuishilja Chang

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

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

Pierre-Louis Choquet

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 Dame Sarah Whatmore; Professor 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: Place, Power, Politics

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

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

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

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

Johanna Koehler

Water risks and institutional change in Kenya

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

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

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

Scott Allan Orr

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Rafael Pereira

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

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

Brice Perombelon

Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower: the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Tom Thornton
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Alexander Pfeiffer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Place, Power, Politics

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

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

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

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; Professor 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

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

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

Rory Hill

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

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

Carlo Inverardi Ferri

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: Professor 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; 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

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

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

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

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

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

Edoardo Borgomeo

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Jeremy Brice

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

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

Emma Cardwell

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: Professor 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

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

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

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

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: Professor 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

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; 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

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

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

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

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

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)

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: Professor 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

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