Current Graduate Research

Current Graduate Research Students
Recent Students (since 2006)

Current Graduate Research Students

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
Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan	An evaluation of effectiveness of alternative flood risk reduction interventions towards ensuring water security in the coastal region of Bangladesh Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Daniel Adshead	Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals through long-term infrastructure planning Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Galina Alova	The future of incumbent electricity companies in the low-carbon power generation market: an asset-level approach Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Ben Caldecott Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Rodrigo Arce	Certified forest industry diversification in the Bolivian Northern Amazon: escaping the staple trap in the forest carbon era Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Pablo Astudillo-Estévez	Path dependence, reinforcement mechanisms and economic complexity in commodity-exporting countries Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Tim Baxter	Biodiversity and bioprotection of historic maritime structures: a possible win-win? Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Martin Coombes Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
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
Serkan Birgel	Peacebuilding through natural resources - the case of Cyprus Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Fiona McConnell Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Hanno Brankamp	Policing the camp: Refugees and the geographies of humanitarian enforcement in Kenya Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Oliver Owen, Oxford Department of International Development Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Laura Brinker	Energy decisions and governance: implications of retail market design for decentralized energy resources Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Matthew Lockwood (University of Exeter) Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions
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
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
Robert Carlsson	Understanding the economic role of national infrastructure systems Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Paola Castaneda	How is the bike made mobile? Learning from bicycle advocacy in Latin America Supervisor: Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Eric (Tak Hin) Chan	The role of built environment and travel behaviour in influencing people's well-being - A case study of Shenzhen Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Micol Chiesa	Do firms forget about the environment? Evidence from publicly listed corporations Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Caitlin McElroy Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Theodor Cojoianu	Environmental investment strategies across the investment value chain: addressing the investment gap in clean technologies - from asset owners to entrepreneurs Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Sergio Henrique Collaço de Carvalho	Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries Supervisor: 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	Land Surface Controls on Central African Rainfall Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Professor Simon Dadson Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
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
Justin Dargin	A carbon market for the Gulf - the development of an optimal carbon trading platform to regulate carbon emissions in the Gulf cooperation council Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Prof Jonathan Stern (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Paulo de Souza	Can society and corporations share the same perspective on sustainability? Should they? Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Jennifer Dodsworth	Locating the Rural Community in Nature and the Nation: Exploring spatial politics of national parks and national identities Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer Research clusters: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Nina Doering	Local participation in Greenland's emerging minerals industry Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Andrew Dwyer	Malware Ecologies: Disrupting the Geographies of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Alexander Eduful	Oil, urbanism and the emergence of a 'cross-class public space' in Ghana: a case for sustainable development? Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Jakob Engel	The political economy of commodity trading: Industrial organisation, regulation and regional development Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Joshua Evans	Endless Convivial Experiments: Domestication and the microbiogeography of hybrid fermentation practices Supervisors: Dr Jamie Lorimer; Dr Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Kaja Fenn	Provenance of late Quaternary loess along the middle and lower Danube River, Europe Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Julie Durcan; Dr Ian Miller (British Geological Survey) Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Alexander Fischer	Do new information flows influence better water institutions in fragile states? Exploring the contingent relationships between decision-makers and measurement technologies Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Adam Formica	Identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modeling Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Lena I. Fuldauer	Climate-resilient system transitions to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Lucie Fusade	Mitigating driving rain to historic buildings: the use of additives in lime-based pointing mortar Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Yujie Gan	Tackling the Chinese Pension System: demographic transition, pension investment, and the financial regulation Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Blen Taye Gemeda	Understanding the impact of moisture on the degradation of porous and clay-bearing, monolithic stone structures: Lalibela, Ethiopia Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
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 and Policy
Wenbo Guo	Mobility, subjective well-being and health in transitional China: towards socially sustainable cities Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Schwanen Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
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
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	Atmosphere as a means of governing life: weather modification and ecological conservation in Sanjiangyuan, China 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
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 and Policy; Environmental Interactions
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	International Financial Centres, Women’s Networks and the Politics of Space: Exploring Gendered Practices in London and Frankfurt Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Jacob Katuva	Geospatially distributed impacts of mining and irrigation on water growth and development in Kwale, Kenya Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Tarek Kheir Eddine	The impact of confessional politics and socio-economic stratification on the use and development of public spaces in Lebanon Supervisor: Dr Fiona McConnell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Narendra Killada	Environmental publics in the Indian case: situated interpretations of nature and democracy in addressing resource conflicts Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Dr Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
James King	Rainfall Dynamics and Change in East Africa: Tackling the 'Climate Paradox' Supervisors: Professor Richard Washington; Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
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
Toru Kubo	Technology innovation and policy instruments to advance low-carbon transport in developing Asian economies Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Christian Brand Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Nicola Kühn	Vegetation response to climate change in South Africa: a functional traits-based approach Supervisor: Dr Marc Macias-Fauria; Professor Katherine J. Willis (Zoology) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions
Michelle Lanzoni	Rain Events and Recharge Processes in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Professor W. Mike Edmunds; Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
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
Shona Loong	At the margins of a ‘development darling’: intersections between sovereignty, territory, and development in Karen State, Myanmar Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Fiona McConnell Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Environmental Interactions
Scott MacDonald	An international comparison of voluntary green electricity tariffs Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
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
Cuthbert Makondo	Options in Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Mitigation: Evidence from Zambia’s Rural-Rural Migration Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions
Nadezhda Mamontova	Spatial Knowledge, Language, and Adaptation to the Landscape among the Ewenki of Central and Northeastern Siberia Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
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 and Policy
Ian Maybury	From books to bricks: hyperspectral imaging for heritage Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
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
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 Supervisor: Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Christine Moore	Understanding social-ecological resilience in a cocoa producing region: a study of Ghana's Kakum Region Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
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: Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Kelsi Nagy	India's sacred and mundane cattle: gods, hybrid-beasts and scavengers Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Ciaran Nash	Sand mitigation along railway tracks - evaluation of sand hazards and field testing of mitigation measures Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Cyrus Nayeri	Governing the ungovernable: investigating the geopolitics of volcano hazard management on Iceland's South Coast Supervisors: Dr Jamie Lorimer; Dr Kärg Kama; Dr Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Kiron Neale	Beyond Implementation: Mainstreaming Residential Solar Energy in Trinidad Supervisors: Dr Chris Jardine; Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Saskia Nowicki	The risk assessment imperative for ‘safe’ drinking water: traversing the technology-policy-management nexus to secure clean water supply Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Sarah O'Keefe	Climate Scenarios for Water Security in Developing Regions Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Friederike Otto Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
Thanti Octavianti	Achieving water security in a developing-country delta city: Challenges from a waterfront development project in Jakarta Bay Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
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
Emilie Parry	"The New Local": Emerging configurations of cooperative applied learning for climate action within an Asian Interfaith Alliance Supervisor: Professor Danny Dorling Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Amelia Paszkowski	The Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta: a study into the adaptability of the delta system to flood risk in a changing climate Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Ashim Paun	Efficacy in national policy frameworks for a post-oil era Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Ben Caldecott Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Rebecca Peters	Socio-legal approaches to regulate urban river water security in South Asia Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Joseph Poore	The extent of abandoned agricultural land and its conservation potential Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Richard Grenyer; EJ Milner-Gulland (Zoology) Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Nicolas Raab	Modelling tree carbon allocation, gas and energy exchange in the Amazon through functional structural models Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Jose Ramirez Mendiola	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 and Policy; Environmental Interactions
Kevin Rattue	Emergent environmental risks and governance of the Northwest Passage (NWP) Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Jennifer Richards	Learning from nature: evaluating site-based conservation approaches to mitigating climatic risks to earthen heritage sites in NW China Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Ruksana Rimi	Climate change and high-impact weather events: implications for water resource and agriculture in Bangladesh Supervisors: Professor Myles Allen; Dr Karsten Haustein; Dr Emily Barbour Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Ian Robertson	A Framework for Responsible Investment, with particular focus on proxy voting Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof Professor Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, Continuing Education Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Kathryn Royce	Mineral instability within the museum environment Supervisor: 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 and Policy
Liam Saddington	Sea level rise in Kiribati and Tuvalu: Geopolitics, epistemic communities and diplomacy Supervisors: Dr Ian Klinke; Dr Fiona McConnell Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Aven Satre Meloy	Characterising temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption using advanced multivariate statistics Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Philipp Grünewald Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Rhian Scott	The contemporary warehouse studio: an extension of artist and urban landscape Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Thomas Jellis Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Aniket Shah	The economic geography of development banking for sustainable development Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Xuanyi Sheng	The governance and management of public-private partnerships bringing together stakeholders in the realization of complex engineering projects - One Belt One Road Initiative Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Matthew Shepherd	Geothermal Urbanism: Making the elemental explicit in Reykjavík Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Beth Greenhough Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Ranu Sinha	Pathways to Water Security: Evaluating the impacts of irrigation investments in Madhya Pradesh, India Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Professor Simon Dadson Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Filipa Soares	Contesting the wild: nature, rewilding, conservationists and local communities in a changing Europe Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions
Bernard Soubry	Climate Resilience on Maritime Farms: Exploring adaptation options for small-scale agriculture and food systems in Eastern Canada Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Kate Sherren (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada) Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Aayush Srivastava	Quaternary of the Thar Desert in India: understanding the history of dune accumulation with the aid of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Julie Durcan Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
Simona Sulikova	An exploration of impacts and attitudes towards active transport modes of walking and cycling and how to change them. Supervisor: Dr Christian Brand Research cluster: Environmental Interactions
Jesper Svensson	Water allocation and collective action in China: state, market and community responses to scarcity and freshwater variability Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
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 and Policy; Environmental Interactions
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	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: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
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
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

Recent Students (since 2006)

Aoife Bennett Completed in 2019	A political ecology of smallholder oil palm production and forest conservation in the Amazon frontier: towards a balanced approach to development in Ucayali, Peru Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Constance McDermott; Dr Peter Cronkleton (CIFOR) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Catherine Buckland Completed in 2019	New methods for identifying dune system reactivation drivers and responses, Nebraska Sandhills Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Anabelle Cardoso Completed in 2019	The role of fire and elephants in shaping a central African forest-savannah mosaic Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras; Dr Katharine Abernethy (University of Stirling) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Amy Creese Completed in 2019	Climate change in the Congo Basin: evaluating coupled models Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Jennifer Gooden Completed in 2019	From William James to Twenty-First Century landowners: perspectives on private land conservation Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Richard Grenyer Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions
Agne Gvozdevaite Completed in 2019	The role of economic, venation and morphological leaf traits in plant and ecosystem function along forest-savannah gradients in the tropics Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Imma Oliveras Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Xiawei Liao Completed in 2019	Future conflicts of water demands and availability in China's power sector Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Peter Martin Completed in 2019	Arctic science in circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c. 1880-1914 Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Beth Greenhough Research clusters: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Emma McIntosh Completed in 2019	An evidence-based evaluation of systematic conservation planning Supervisor: Dr Richard Grenyer Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Callum Munday Completed in 2019	Representation of southern African climate in coupled models Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
Homero Paltan Lopez Completed in 2019	Surface water sensitivity to climate variability Supervisor: Professor Simon Dadson Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy; Environmental Interactions
Helge Peters Completed in 2019	More-than-rational modelling: the pragmatics and politics of social simulation in fisheries management Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Dr Catharina Landström Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Festus Asaaga Completed in 2018	Land rights, tenure security and sustainable land use in rural Ghana Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Mark Hirons Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Negar Elodie Behzadi Completed in 2018	Gendered coal struggles at the margins: the working lives of men, women and children in Soviet and post-Soviet Tajikistan Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Judith Pallot Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Iliana Cardenes Trujillo Completed in 2018	Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Heuishilja Chang Completed in 2018	The resilience of shrinking communities in rural Japan: Can the Cittaslow approach be a possible development strategy? Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Pierre-Louis Choquet Completed in 2018	Fragmented horizons: multinational firms and ethical life in the Anthropocene Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Anna Davidson Completed in 2018	Moblizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Irina Fedorenko Completed in 2018	Environmental activism, non-governmental organisations and new generation of civil society in Russia and China Supervisors: Professor Judith Pallot; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Mark Fransham Completed in 2018	Understanding neighbourhood income poverty dynamics in England Supervisor: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Rachel Loopstra (Department of Sociology, Oxford) Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Elizabeth Harnett Completed in 2018	The diffusion of responsible investment discourses and practices: the role and impact of investment consultants Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Caitlin McElroy Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Xi (Sisi) Hu Completed in 2018	A temporal and spatial analysis of China’s infrastructure and economic vulnerability to climate change impacts Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Anna Hushlak Completed in 2018	Campaigning in the age of digital media: exploring the influences of digital affordances on campaigning in environmental non-governmental organisations Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Christopher Kaminker Completed in 2018	The role of institutional investors in financing sustainable energy Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Johanna Koehler Completed in 2018	Water risks and institutional change in Kenya Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research clusters: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place; Environmental Interactions
Yingqi Liu Completed in 2018	The role of the forward capacity market in promoting electricity use reduction: case studies of the electricity demand reduction (EDR) pilot in the UK and international schemes in North America and Europe Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Professor Nick Eyre Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Penelope Mealy Completed in 2018	'Know What?' New lens on productive knowledge shed light on long run development structural change, job switching and the transition to the green economy Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Prof Doyne Famer Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Stephanie Mooij Completed in 2018	The (mis)alignment of ESG perspectives in the investment chain. A cross-country analysis of the obstacles facing companies, asset managers and asset owners. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof C Mayer Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Sarah Morton Completed in 2018	The legacies of the repatriation of human remains from the Royal College of Surgeons of England Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Beth Greenhough; Dr Catherine Nash (QMU); Dr Sam Alberti (Sterling) Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Scott Allan Orr Completed in 2018	'Wet walls': developing 4D moisture monitoring techniques for stone masonry Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Rafael Pereira Completed in 2018	Distributive justice and transportation equity: inequality in accessibility in Rio de Janeiro Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities
Brice Perombelon Completed in 2018	Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower: the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy; Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Alexander Pfeiffer Completed in 2018	The 'decarbonisation identity' and pathways to net-zero: the scale and impact of committed cumulative carbon emissions and stranded assets in the electricity generation sector on the decarbonisation of the economy Supervisor: Professor Cameron Hepburn Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Michael Urban Completed in 2018	Placing the production of investment returns: an economic geography of asset management in public pension plans Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Kevin Wheeler Completed in 2018	Cooperation or conflict in trans-boundary rivers with the emergence of climate variability: a case study of the Nile River Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Meghan Bailey Completed in 2017	Robust adaptation planning and decision-making: a comparative study of subsistence-oriented communities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and West Africa Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Jonathan Balls Completed in 2017	Fluid capitalism at the bottom of the pyramid: a study of the off-grid solar power market in Uttar Pradesh, India Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Prof M. McCartney (SAS) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Abrar Chaudhury Completed in 2017	Organising climate change adaptation: an organisation and network perspective to agriculture adaptation in developing countries Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Ariella Helfgott; Dr Marc Ventresca (SSB) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Lisa Choi Completed in 2017	Mobilities and socio-spatialities in the Aerotropolis: Dallas-Fort Worth and New Songdo City Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Professor Linda McDowell Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Christopher Coghlan Completed in 2017	Towards food security with nutritional health: multi-scale approaches Supervisor: Dr Shonil Bhagwat Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Megan Cole Completed in 2017	Tracking inclusive sustainable development at multiple scales: South Africa’s safe and just operating spaces Supervisor: Dr Richard Bailey; Prof Mark New (UCT) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Andrew Dansie Completed in 2017	The role of windblown dust from ephemeral river valleys in the fertilisation of the Benguela Upwelling System Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Professor Giles Wiggs Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
Sasha Engelmann Completed in 2017	The cosmological aesthetics of Tomás Saraceno's atmospheric experiments Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Franziska Gaupp Completed in 2017	The global impact of droughts on agricultural production Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Professor Jim Hall Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
Saher Hasnain Completed in 2017	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 Completed in 2017	Climate change risk assessment, Decision making and the development of adaptation pathways Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Julian Kirchherr Completed in 2017	The Anti-Dam Protest Cycle: Evidence from Asia Supervisor: Dr Katrina Charles; Dr Matthew Walton Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Christopher Lander Completed in 2017	Foreign Direct Investment in the Russian Agrarian Sector Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot Research cluster: Political Worlds: Violence, Sovereignty, Knowledge
Qiong Lu Completed in 2017	Modelling of pesticides and POPs in the River Thames System: potential impacts of changes in climate and management Supervisor: Professor Paul Whitehead Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Ewan Macdonald Completed in 2017	Clouds on the horizon: identifying global priorities for conservation marketing and planning the conservation of the Sunda clouded leopard on Borneo Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Ashley Massey Completed in 2017	Sacred forests and conservation on a landscape scale Supervisor: Dr Shonil Bhagwat; Professor Kathy Willis (Dept. of Zoology) Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Jerome Mayaud Completed in 2017	Development and testing of a coupled vegetation / sediment-transport model for dryland environments Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Gregory Ortiz Completed in 2017	New contradictions: the activism of middle-class youth in Delhi Supervisor: Professor Craig Jeffrey Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Viresh Patel Completed in 2017	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 Completed in 2017	Creating spaces for peace? Civil society, political space and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Rachel Hayman (INTRAC) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alexandra Rowell Completed in 2017	Sand ramps as Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental archives: analysis from Southern Africa Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Rachael Tily Completed in 2017	Space, research objects and interdisciplinarity in geomorphological inquiry Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell; Prof Andrew Barry Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Laura-Marie Töpfer Completed in 2017	Mapping Chinese cross-border finance: actors, networks and institutional development Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Michael Viehs Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Thomas Turnbull Completed in 2017	From paradox to policy: the problem of energy resource conservation in Britain and America, 1865-1981 Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell; Prof Andrew Barry Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Xiaoyang Wang Completed in 2017	Pathways to international financial centre formation with Chinese characteristics: a view from Shanghai Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice
Ariell Ahearn-Ligham Completed in 2016	The changing meaning of work, herding, and social relations in Mongolia: a study of value transformations and conditions for social change Supervisors: Dr Troy Sternberg; Professor Craig Jeffrey; Prof. Dawn Chatty (QEH, Oxford) Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Samin Ahmad Completed in 2016	What controls algal greening of sandstone heritage? An experimental approach Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Thomas Ashfold Completed in 2016	Work, Time and Rhythm: Investigating contemporary ‘time squeeze’ Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Dr Tim Schwanen Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Cristina Cabello Briones Completed in 2016	Effects of open shelters on the preservation of limestone remains at archaeological sites Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Becky Catarelli Completed in 2016	Rising seas, surprising storms: temporalities of climate and catastrophe in Vermont, New York and the Florida Keys Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant Completed in 2016	Impacts of leaf age on the spectral and physiochemical traits of trees in Amazonian forest canopies Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr France Gerard (CEH) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Tahia Devisscher Completed in 2016	Wildfire under a changing climate in the Bolivian Chiquitania: a social-ecological systems analysis Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Emily Boyd (Reading) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Adam Elliott-Cooper Completed in 2016	The Struggle that has No Name: Policing, space and community resistance in neoliberal Britain Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Timothy Foster Completed in 2016	From cash flows to water flows: an assessment of financial risks to rural water supply sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Linda Geaves Completed in 2016	Public priorities and public goods: the drivers and responses to transitions in flood risk management Supervisors: Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell; Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Rory Hill Completed in 2016	'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 Completed in 2016	Invisible spaces: variegated geographies of waste in China Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Irem Kok Completed in 2016	Politics of transparency: contested spaces of corporate responsibility, science and regulation in shale gas projects of the UK and US Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof Andrew Barry Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alex Littaye Completed in 2016	Finding time in the geographies of food: how heritage food discourses shape notions of place Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Yuge Ma Completed in 2016	The emergence of low carbon development in China and India: energy efficiency as a lens Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Barbara Harriss-White Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
David Maguire Completed in 2016	Learning to serve time: troubling spaces of working class masculinities in the UK Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Balqis Mohamed Rehan Completed in 2016	Risk-based flood protection decisions in the context of climatic variability and change Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Andre Neves Completed in 2016	The impact of walking and cycling infrastructure on personal travel and carbon emissions: the case of Cardiff Connect2 Supervisor: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Jones Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Yukie Saito Completed in 2016	Corporate engagement for sustainable business in development Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Nicholas Simcik-Arese Completed in 2016	The commons in a compound: morality, ownership, and legality in Cairo's squatted gated community Supervisor: Professor Craig Jeffrey; Michael Keith (COMPAS, Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Chase Sova Completed in 2016	Decision making, agenda setting and preference shaping in Ghana's agricultural climate change adaptation policy regime: a political ecological perspective Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Sarah Terry Completed in 2016	Spaces for nature: neoliberal conservation in post-Reformasi South Sumatra Supervisors: Dr Paul Jepson; Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Scott Thacker Completed in 2016	Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Kerrie Thornhill Completed in 2016	Reconstructed meanings of gender violence in postwar Liberia Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (QEH, Oxford) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Marina Topouzi Completed in 2016	Occupants' interaction with low-carbon retrofitted homes and its impact on energy use Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre; Dr Rajat Gupta Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Charlotte von Mangoldt Completed in 2016	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 Completed in 2016	Developing innovation capability: the case of Chinese automobile companies Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr David Bonilla; Dr David Bonilla Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Katrin Wilhelm Completed in 2016	Improving non-destructive techniques for in situ stone weathering research Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Yin Yang Completed in 2016	The economic geography of urban water infrastructure investment and governance - a comparison of Beijing and London Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Kate Young Completed in 2016	Strategic appraisal of interdependent infrastructure provision Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Zichen Zhang Completed in 2016	Electric vehicles in China: past, present and future Supervisor: Professor David Banister Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Christopher Allen Completed in 2015	Atmospheric mechanisms of Central Saharan dust storm formation in Boreal summer: observations from the Fennec campaign Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems and Policy
Edoardo Borgomeo Completed in 2015	Water resources adaptation decisions in the context of climatic non-stationarity and variability Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Jeremy Brice Completed in 2015	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 Completed in 2015	A study of the UK's market based fisheries policy Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Prof. Daniel Pauly (UBC, Canada) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Yi'En Cheng Completed in 2015	Education, class, and youth: young people's experiences of private higher education in Singapore Supervisors: Professor Craig Jeffrey; Dr Johanna Waters Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Myung-Ae (Chloe) Choi Completed in 2015	Governing Deceleration: the natures, times and spaces of ecotourism in South Korea Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Daniel Cooper Completed in 2015	Under Mount Roraima: The revitalization of a shamanic landscape and practice Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Eden Cottee-Jones Completed in 2015	Isolated Ficus trees and conservation in human-modified landscapes Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Cecilia Dahlsjo Completed in 2015	The role of termite assemblages in ecosystem processes in tropical forests Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum) Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Alexis Gutierrez Completed in 2015	The Sustainable Seafood Movement - bringing together supply, demand and governance of capture fisheries in the US and UK to achieve sustainability Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Heather Hachigian Completed in 2015	Governance frameworks for responsible investing: the case of sovereign sponsored funds. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Shuaishuai He Completed in 2015	Heritage conservation and urban revitalization in China Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Timothy Hodgetts Completed in 2015	Enacting connectivity: woodland mammal conservation practices in England and Wales Supervisor: Dr Jamie Lorimer Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Ryan Hogarth Completed in 2015	The evolutionary economic geography of climate change Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Mary Kanui Completed in 2015	Variety for security: a case study of agricultural, nutrient and dietary diversity among smallholder farmers in Western Kenya Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Shonil Bhagwat Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Jagadishwor Karmacharya Completed in 2015	Climate processes over the Himalayas: added value from high resolution regional climate modelling Supervisor: Professor Mark New Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Andrea Kölbel Completed in 2015	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 Completed in 2015	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 Completed in 2015	For the benefit of current and future generations: prospects for intergenerational equity in South Africa Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Lucy Mahoney Completed in 2015	Investigating the interactions of travel behaviour and wellbeing: a mixed-methods case study of Penarth and Cardiff, Wales Supervisors: Dr Christian Brand; Dr Tim Jones Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Thomas Matthews Completed in 2015	Analysing and modelling the impact of habitat fragmentation on species diversity: a macroecological perspective Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Sarah McGill Completed in 2015	The economic governance of global commodity markets Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Amber Murrey Completed in 2015	Lifescapes of a pipedream: a decolonial mixed-tape of structural violence and resistance in two towns along the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Grace Mwaura Completed in 2015	Educated youth in Kenya: Negotiating waithood by greening livelihoods Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Sahar Romani Completed in 2015	Generation NGO: youth and development in urban India Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Craig Jeffrey Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Dane Rook Completed in 2015	Doxastic spaces: a new approach to relational beliefs and unstable neglect Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Nick Eyre Research clusters: Climate Systems and Policy; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Caroline Schmidt Completed in 2015	Law, geography and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications for REDD+ national implementation Supervisor: Dr Constance McDermott Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Rocio Urrutia Completed in 2015	Primary productivity and soil respiration in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile and their environmental controls Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr Pam Berry Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Alexandra Yannias Completed in 2015	'Do the data in fact deceive?': An analysis of the roles of evaluation and the production of aid effectiveness at the World Bank Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Haiyan (Helen) Yu Completed in 2015	Water, Power and IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) - a comparative study of village water governance in arid and semi-arid northwest China Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Professor David S.G. Thomas; Prof. Mike Edmunds Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Said Al Sarmi Completed in 2014	Observed climate trends and projected climate change over the Arabian peninsula Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Malek Al-Chalabi Completed in 2014	The road not taken? A longitudinal and interdisciplinary examination of energy behaviours Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Dr Christian Brand Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Janet Banfield Completed in 2014	Towards a non-representational geography of artistic practice Supervisor: Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Jennifer Booth Completed in 2014	Back to Nature: Geologically informed consolidates for stone museum artefacts Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Yonique Campbell Completed in 2014	Citizenship, security and the politics of reform in Jamaica Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Colin Clarke Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Kathryn Clark Completed in 2014	The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport Supervisors: Professor Mark New; Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
Erin Freeland-Ballantyne Completed in 2014	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 Completed in 2014	Women and work in irrigated landscapes in rural India Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Rachel James Completed in 2014	Implications of global warming for African climate Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Darren Jeffers Completed in 2014	A palaeo-evironmental history of the southern Bekaa Valley and the Lebanon Mountains, Lebanon during the last glacial period (~112-35 ka BP)
Nicholas Kreston Completed in 2014	Post-Keynesian financial spaces, places, and flows: measuring and visualizing financial services in the United States Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Aaron Krolikowski Completed in 2014	Mobile-enabled payments methods and public service delivery in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Nina Kruglikova Completed in 2014	Environmental NGOs as a mediator of scientific knowledge: an enthnographic study Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson; Prof. N. Thrift Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Tanya Kumar Completed in 2014	Marginalized street traders or strategic entrepreneurs? Social networks, political structures and Kolkata’s young street vendors Supervisors: Professor Linda McDowell; Professor Craig Jeffrey Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Carly Leighton Completed in 2014	Desert dune system response to Late Quaternary environmental change in the northeastern Rub’Al Khali: advances in the application of opitically stimulated luminescence datasets Supervisors: Dr Richard Bailey; Professor David S.G. Thomas Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Eveliina Lyytinen Completed in 2014	Spaces of trust and mistrust: Congolese refugees, institutions and protection in Kampala, Uganda Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Prof. Roger Zetter (Refugees Studies Centre) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alex Money Completed in 2014	Corporate water risk and return Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Rob Hope Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Mari Mulyani Completed in 2014	The interplay between the REDD+ mechanism and forest-related institutions in Indonesia Supervisor: Dr Paul Jepson Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Helen Pearce Completed in 2014	Climate change in East Africa Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Aisha Saad Completed in 2014	Contesting corporate social responsibility: public challenges to the modern corporation in the 21st Century Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Marcus Wachtmeister Completed in 2014	Driving towards more flexibility? China’s environmental and climate policy in the automotive sector Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Prof. V. Shue (Dept. of Politics, Oxford) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Juan Arredondo Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	Spaces of aesthetic experiment Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Kärg Kama Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	Carbon cycling in Bornean tropical forests Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Eelke Kraak Completed in 2013	Dams of Damocles: between rivers, states and geopolitics Supervisors: Professor Patricia Daley; Professor Judith Pallot Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Debora Ley Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	Connecting canals: exercises in recombinant ecology Supervisor: Professor Sarah Whatmore Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Robert Fleming Puckett Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2013	Droughts in future climate change in the United Kingdom Supervisor: Professor Mark New Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Jan Rosenow Completed in 2013	Politics of change: energy efficiency policy in Britain and Germany Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Justin van der Merwe Completed in 2013	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	Determination of baseline ecological conditions in the humid highlands of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
Zoë Enstone Completed in 2012	Becoming Goth: Geographies of an (un)popular culture Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Joe Gerlach Completed in 2012	Vernacular mappings: affect, virtuality, performance Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Derek McCormack Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Kate Halladay Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	Migration of Indian immigrants in Canada Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Dominique Henri Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	Transnationalism and the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK: Regional inequalities and the developmental effects of remittances at the sub-national level Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Caroline King Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	Electric cars in China: energy infrastructure and market potentials Supervisor: Professor David Banister Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Arnoldo Matus Kramer Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	Amphibian diversity conservation in a changing world: a view from Mexico Supervisor: Professor Robert J. Whittaker Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Laura Pereira Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	(Re)Working citizenship: young people and colour-blind politics Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Sharad Saxena Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	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 Completed in 2012	Climate change, sustainable power sources, and developing economies Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Christiane Wirth Forsberg Completed in 2012	'Mobile citizens': living the European dream? Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell; Dr. B. Anderson (COMPAS, Oxford) Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Sebastian Abrahamsson Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	Capital and development in social and cultural contexts Supervisors: Professor David Banister; Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Csaba Burger Completed in 2011	Occupational pensions in Germany - an economic geography Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Drew Foxall Completed in 2011	Mapping ethnic relations: cartography, geopolitics, and security in the North Caucasus Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Cecile Girardin Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	A corporate geography of Canada: governance and networks Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Elizabeth S. Jeffers Completed in 2011	The dynamics of ecosystem processes over successional time scales: plant population responses to environmental change and their feedback effects on ecosystem functioning
Ting-Yu Kang Completed in 2011	Internet transnational communication and diasporic nationalism: imaging China in online community
Gavin Killip Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	Meaningful ESG impact measurement and integration Supervisor: Professor Dariusz Wójcik Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Danae Maniatis Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	Governance, indigenous rights, and water in Chiapas, Mexico Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Joel Scriven Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	Dynamic vulnerability in Andean landscapes: the case of Puno, Peru Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Royd Vinya Completed in 2011	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 Completed in 2011	Legal frameworks for sustainable investment Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Liana Anderson Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	'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 Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	Pattern and processes in grass-dominated ecosystems: vegetation dynamics at the grassland-savannah ecotone in South Africa during the Holocene
Michael Ekers Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	The emigration state system: New Zealand and its diaspora in comparative context
Alex Guerra Noriega Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	The finance of climate change Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Natasha Kuruppu Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	Rural-urban migration in China Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Antony Millner Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	Risking the flood: cartographies of things to come Supervisor: Professor Sarah Whatmore Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Yuko Onishi Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	Palaeoecology, biogeography and evolution of benthic littoral diatoms from the Galapagos Islands
Allen Shaw Completed in 2010	India's electricity system: power for the states Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr Brenda Boardman Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Stephanie Sodero Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	Uncertainty and confidence in predictions of climate change Supervisors: Professor Diana Liverman; Professor Mark New Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Rebecca White Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2010	God-created Heaven and Earth... man-made climate change: American evangelical discourses on global climate change Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman; Dr M. Boykoff Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Prezemyslaw Zelazowski Completed in 2010	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 Completed in 2009	Biodiversity and natural disasters: opportunities for change in post-tsunami Sri Lanka Supervisor: Dr Richard Ladle Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation
Adam Bumpus Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	Tropical climatology and biodiversity. Supervisors: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Mark New Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems and Policy
John Cole Completed in 2009	Clean development mechanism: foreign investment in sustainable infrastructure in developing countries Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Alexandra Conliffe Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	Structural and behavioural change in British Jewry. Supervisor: Professor Ceri Peach Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Nynke Hofstra Completed in 2009	Changes in daily climate and runoff trends in Europe. Supervisors: Professor Mark New; Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Owen Horwood Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	Unravelling gender and participation in migrant associations. An ethnographic study of a Senegalese village community in Paris, Dakar and Sinthiane
Janelle Knox-Hayes Completed in 2009	Constructing an international market for carbon trading: an institutional perspective. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Katja Lehmann Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	Vegetation dynamics and environmental change in Mongolia.
Daniel McGahey Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	Violent geographies of exile: Palestinian refugees and refugee camps in Lebanon Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Pamela Richardson-Ngwenya Completed in 2009	The ethical geographies of Caribbean sugar Supervisors: Professor Sarah Whatmore; Professor Colin Clarke Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Hassan Sachedina Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	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 Completed in 2009	Using palaeoecology to address conservation-mining conflicts in south-east Madagascar.
Corinne Weaver Completed in 2009	Turbulent flow systems and dune dynamics. Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Nadia Abu-Zahra Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	Late Quarternary paleolacustrine environments in the Middle Kalahari, Botswana. Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics
Caroline Cheeseman Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	Spatial and temporal vegetation patterns in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Hang Gao Completed in 2008	Chinese dust storms: origins and mechanisms - a TOMS based research Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Janice Golding Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	Public pension fund investment in urban revitalization. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Dorothy John Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	Life on the outside: negotiating school to work transitions Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Tom Simchak Completed in 2008	Changing cultures and identities in Shetland's oil era Supervisor: Professor Andrew Barry Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics
Murray Simpson Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2008	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 Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	Applied hybrid geographies: complexity and sustainability in eastern Kansas Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Bethany Ehlmann Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	Long-term forest dynamics in high altitude mountains of west-central Mexico: The human and the climate dimension in the Holocene.
John Gates Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	The Nile basin initiative: towards a regime of cooperation. Supervisor: Dr Rachael McDonnell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Susannah Sallu Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	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 Completed in 2007	Habitat reconstruction of cave sites in the western Mediterranean during the demise of Neanderthals.
Christian Brand Completed in 2006	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 Completed in 2006	Working women: gender, class and place. Supervisor: Professor Linda McDowell Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
James Kierstead Completed in 2006	Behavioural responses to photovoltaic systems in the UK domestic sector. Supervisor: Dr Brenda Boardman Research cluster: Climate Systems and Policy
Myung-Hee (Anna) Kim Completed in 2006	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 Completed in 2006	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 Completed in 2006	Corporate environmental performance: governance, intangible assets, and financial markets. Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place
Alexander Shaw Completed in 2006	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 Completed in 2006	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 Completed in 2006	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 Completed in 2006	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

International Graduate School

Current Graduate Research Students

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

An evaluation of effectiveness of alternative flood risk reduction interventions towards ensuring water security in the coastal region of Bangladesh

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

The future of incumbent electricity companies in the low-carbon power generation market: an asset-level approach

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

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

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

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

Serkan Birgel

Peacebuilding through natural resources - the case of Cyprus

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

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

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

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

Understanding the economic role of national infrastructure systems

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

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

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

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

Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries

Cheli Cresswell

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

Land Surface Controls on Central African Rainfall

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

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

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

Jennifer Dodsworth

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

Nina Doering

Local participation in Greenland's emerging minerals industry

Malware Ecologies: Disrupting the Geographies of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity

Alexander Eduful

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

Jakob Engel

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

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

Provenance of late Quaternary loess along the middle and lower Danube River, Europe

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

Identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modeling

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

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

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

Blen Taye Gemeda

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

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

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

Wenbo Guo

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

Transfer of Status: Political Decentralisation as a Driver of Change in Indonesian Village Level Forest Governance

Understanding energy demand: energy using practices and energy services

Yifan Han

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

Tom Hashimoto

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

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

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

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

Infrastructure and the Economy

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

Nutrient dynamics of Bornean tropical forests

Exploring urban inequality through unveiling uneven atmospheres in everyday mobility practices

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

Katherine Jang

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

International Financial Centres, Women’s Networks and the Politics of Space: Exploring Gendered Practices in London and Frankfurt

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

Tarek Kheir Eddine

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

Narendra Killada

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

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

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

Toru Kubo

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

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

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