Current Graduate Research Students

Michael 't Sas-Rolfes

Conflicting framings in global conservation governance: Consequences for African megafauna

Supervisors: Dr Dustin Garrick; Dr Laurence Wainwright
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Maryam Altaf

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

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

Bailey Anderson

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

Supervisors: Professor Simon Dadson; Dr Louise Slater
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Xiang Ao

Linking "place thinking" and "flow thinking" for urban industry development: an empirical study of China

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

Andrew Armstrong

Revenue patterns of piped water services in rural Africa

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

Mari Arold

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

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

Moritz Baer

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

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

Tim Baxter

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

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

Olivia Becher

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

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

Giulia Belloni

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

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

Iqbal Singh Bhalla

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

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

Konstantin Born

Circular economy and eco-innovation in the mining sector

Supervisors: Dr Caitlin McElroy; Dr Alex Money
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Dáire Browne

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

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

Joris Bücker

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

Supervisor: Dr Matt Ives; Prof. Doyne Farmer
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Marcus Buechel

Comprehending changing climate and landscape influence on hydrological systems

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

Andrea Byfuglien

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

Supervisors: Dr Mark Hirons; Dr Stefania Innocenti
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Thomas Caton Harrison

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

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

Sangwon Chae

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

Supervisor: Dr Alex Vasudevan
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Ho-Yin (Tommy) Chan

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

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

Rachael Chan

The Staging of Indigeneity in Taiwan as a Geopolitical Strategy

Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Dr Hannah Fair
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Yi-Ting Chang

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

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

Changsoon Choi

Climate-smart green infrastructure

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

Nicholas Chow

Fostering Effective Climate Change Governance to Enable Resilient Infrastructure Service Provision

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Tina Christmann

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

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

Alex Clark

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

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

Sergio Henrique Collaço de Carvalho

Protected Area Financing in Megadiverse Upper-Middle Income Countries

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

Kerry Constabile

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

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions

Cheli Cresswell

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

David Crowhurst

Dynamics Controlling the Seasonal Cycle of Congo Basin Evaporation

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

Maria Dance

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

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

Michael Davis

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

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

Paulo de Souza

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

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

Jennifer Dodsworth

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

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

Gaurav Dubey

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

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

Jakob Engel

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

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

Sophie Erfurth

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

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Joshua Ettinger

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

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

Safa Fanaian

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

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Adam Ferris

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

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

Rob Ferritto

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

Supervisor: Professor Katrina Charles

Bill Finnegan

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

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Dr Tina Fawcett

Ella Fleming

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

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick; Dr Timothy Clack (Archaeology)
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Bruno Friedel

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

Supervisor: Dr Alex Vasudevan
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Lena I. Fuldauer

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Sarah Gall

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

Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Michael Obersteiner
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Matteo Gasparini

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

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Matt Ives

Blen Taye Gemeda

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Lily Gilder

Rethinking therapeutic landscapes: diverse encounters with nature for care experienced young people

Supervisors: Dr Mark Hirons; Dr Jennie Middleton
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Gina Gilson

Governing informal water markets in Eastern Africa

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick

Trisha Gopalakrishna

Forest Restoration in India: Opportunities and Realities

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

Carolina Gueiros

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

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

Wenbo Guo

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

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

Robyn Haggis

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall; Professor Nathalie Seddon
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Yifan Han

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

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

Oscar Hartman Davies

Ocean Sentinels: Seabirds and smart oceans governance in the Southern Hemisphere

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

Tiger Hills

Practicing Reconciliation: Producing Peace?

Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Dr Alex Vasudevan
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Dong-Li Hong

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

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

Rosie Huck

Modelling landscape response to environmental change in susceptible drylands

Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Raffaele Ippolito

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

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

Luis Iturra

Exploring urban inequality through unveiling uneven atmospheres in everyday mobility practices

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

Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion

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

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

Jimmy Jia

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

Supervisors: Dr Ben Caldecott; Dr Nicola Ranger; Dr Abrar Chaudhury
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Kristina Kaempfer

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

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

Abdul Wahid Khan

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

Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn; Dr Abrar Chaudhury
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions

Nameerah Khan

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

Supervisors: Professor Katrina Charles; Dr Sonia Hoque
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Tarek Kheir Eddine

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

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

James A. King

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

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

Katie Kowal

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

Supervisor: Dr Louise Slater

Tonny Kukeera

Holistic Business Models: Connecting Electricity Access to Sustainable Development

Supervisor: Dr Aoife Brophy
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Sieun Lee

Caring in the night-time city: filling the spatio-temporal gaps in childcare

Supervisors: Dr Jennie Middleton; Dr Anna Plyushteva
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Faryal Leghari

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

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

Anaïs Lemyre

Human-environmental analysis of wellbeing and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Supervisor: Dr Janey Messina
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Sabrina Li

Human-Environment Interactions on Infectious Disease Risk in Brazil

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

Jin Hee Lim

Infrastructural intersection and everyday experiences of state and status in Northern Thailand.

Supervisors: Dr Ian Klinke; Professor Fiona McConnell
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Yi Fan Liu

Disaggregating the BlueSG assemblage: Examining the productions and negotiations of user (im)mobilities and agency in Singapore's electric vehicle sharing service

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

Sina Maghami Nick

The meaning of nomadism for Bakhtiari mobile pastoralists in the Zagros Mountains of Iran

Supervisor: Dr Ariell Ahearn
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Environmental Interactions

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul

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

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

Alexander Manby

Geographies of Naga (Inter)nationalism 1946-2022

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

Diana Mastracci

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

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

Ian Maybury

From books to bricks: hyperspectral imaging for heritage

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Hibba Mazhary

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

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

Sylvia McKelvie

Toxic Territories, Health Futures: Geographies of Drug Epidemics in Los Angeles County, US

Supervisors: Dr Jennie Middleton; Dr Alex Vasudevan
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Alex Midlen

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

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

Anca Mihalache

Time-varying electricity tariffs policy design: an integrated approach

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Professor Nick Eyre
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities; Environmental Interactions

Samuel Miller McDonald

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

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

Helen Morrissey

Data and governance in South Africa's paratransit industry

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

Medha Mukherjee

Intersectional Inequalities and Rural Drinking Water Choices in India

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research clusters: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions

Jelani Munroe

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

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

Max Nathanson

Defining Climate Security: the Root Causes of US-Bound Migration since NAFTA

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

Emily Neil

Assessing the impacts of rewilding at the Knepp Estate, UK, using ensemble ecosystem and agent-based models

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

Kristina Nilsson

Public finance and drinking water services in rural Africa and Asia

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Maike Nowatzki

Exploring Morphology and Morphological Drivers of Dunefields using Deep Learning and Remote Sensing Approaches

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

Adam Packer

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

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

Pirta Palola

Towards integrated land-sea management: mapping and modelling ecological connectivity in tropical coastal environments

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Wedding
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Clive Parkinson

Automobility as 'Dispositif' in Contemporary China

Supervisors: Professor Tim Schwanen; Dr Anna Plyushteva
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Adam Parr

Law and regeneration in seventeenth-century England

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

Amelia Paszkowski

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Ignacio Perez

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

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

Rebecca Peters

Bringing back Golden Bangladesh: Regulation, institutions, and the political economy of river pollution

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Laura Picot

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

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

Elena Pierard

Anticipating sustainability transitions: how energy majors engage with cleaner technologies

Supervisors: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Aoife Brophy
Research cluster: Environmental Interactions

Mihaela-Claudia Pop

Income Composition Inequality from Socialism to Capitalism

Supervisors: Professor Dariusz Wójcik; Dr Stefanos Ioannou
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Carter Powis

A multi-disciplinary analysis of the role of transient negative emissions in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement

Supervisors: Professor Cameron Hepburn; Dr Steve Smith
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Akaraseth Puranasamriddhi

The Fiscal Implications of Climate Risks to Critical Infrastructure

Supervisors: Professor Jim Hall; Dr Nicola Ranger
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Kat Rahmat

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

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

Camila Ramos

Transport-related social exclusion: A study on minimum standards and thresholds through the lens of accessibility

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

Xiyu Ren

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

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

José Luis Reséndiz

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

Supervisor: Dr Ben Caldecott

Ian Robertson

A Framework for Responsible Investment, with particular focus on proxy voting

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof Professor Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, Continuing Education
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Kathryn Royce

Preservation of geological collections

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Kenta Sayama

From datapoints to heritage recognition -establishing geoheritage and geocultural values of Quaternary palaeoenvironmental sites in South-east Arabia

Supervisors: Professor Heather Viles; Dr Ash Parton; Prof Adrian Parker
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Carlota Segura Garcia

Characterising the fire regimes of the Brazilian savannas under large-scale land-use expansion and climate change

Supervisor: Dr Imma Oliveras
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Sandra Serumaga-Zake

Water Infrastructure Finance in sub-Saharan Africa

Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Dr Alex Money
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Environmental Interactions

Marcus Spiegel

Influence of reindeer herbivory on carbon cycle dynamics in a changing climate on the Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia, Russia

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

Sugandha Srivastav

Essays on the post-carbon transition

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

Theo Stanley

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

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

Simphiwe Laura Stewart

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

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

Rupert Stuart-Smith

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

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

Sarah Hui Ann Tan

Hazy memories: Exploring the relationship between 'eco-social histories' and risk perception through the lived experience of haze pollution in Malaysia

Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Dr Ariell Ahearn
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Vance Z H Tan

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

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

Nina Teng

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

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

Pisca Tias

Empirical assessment of the interlinkages between forest ecosystem provisioning services and rural community resilience and adaptation to climate change

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

Jasper Verschuur

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

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

Johannes Wagner

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

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

Natasha Wallum

Determining controls on aeolian dust emissions: analysis of dynamic processes at Etosha Pan, Namibia

Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Ella Walsh

Late Quaternary hydrological change from valley fill complexes in Namibia

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

Annie E.A. Welden

Animal Infrastructure: The animals enrolled as Nature-based Solutions

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

Charles Wight

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

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

Christian Wilson

Paris Aligned Portfolios and the Real Economy

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

Sam Woor

The evolution of Late Quaternary alluvial landscapes in northern Oman

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

Ivin Yeo

The digitally mediated city: rethinking posthuman urban life and wellbeing through Singapore's smart green and blue spaces

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

Shiv Yucel

Improving Extreme Heat Resilience: Measuring Inequalities in Access to Relief

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

Huanyuan Zhang

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

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

Zhaoqi (Eric) Zhou

Understanding cycling infrastructure and practice in Shenzhen, China

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

Recent Students (since 2006)

Galina Alova

Completed in 2022

The low-carbon transition of the global electricity sector

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

Pablo Astudillo-Estévez

Completed in 2022

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

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

Paola Castaneda

Completed in 2022

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

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

Joshua Evans

Completed in 2022

Taste Shaping Natures: A multimodal ethnography of translated fermentation in the New/er Nordic Cuisine

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

Nicola Kühn

Completed in 2022

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

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

Yukun Liu

Completed in 2022

Numerical simulation of the internal structure of aeolian sand dunes using cellular automaton modelling

Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Yangsiyu Lu

Completed in 2022

Environmental Risks, Stranded Assets, and the Impacts of Regulation on Firm Productivity

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

Marcel Metzner

Completed in 2022

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

Supervisor: Dr Caitlin McElroy; Prof. Anette Mikes
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Saskia Nowicki

Completed in 2022

Health Risk in Complex Adaptive Rural Water Systems

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

Jesper Svensson

Completed in 2022

Water allocation and collective action in China: state, market and community responses to scarcity and freshwater variability

Supervisor: Dr Dustin Garrick
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Daniel Adshead

Completed in 2021

Infrastructure for sustainable development

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Adam Formica

Completed in 2021

Identifying robust policies against deforestation using agent-based modeling

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

Richard Grove

Completed in 2021

A Holistic Approach to Evaluating the Performance of Consolidants on Sandstone

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

Logan Hamilton

Completed in 2021

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

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

Georgia Hole

Completed in 2021

Driftwood as a tool for investigation of Holocene Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics

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

Britain Hopkins

Completed in 2021

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

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

Ohis Ilalokhoin

Completed in 2021

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

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

Katherine Jang

Completed in 2021

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Lucas Kruitwagen

Completed in 2021

Technology, information, and the governance of environmental risk

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

Jae-Young Lee

Completed in 2021

The role of water quality in regional water resources assessment

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

Kris Lee

Completed in 2021

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

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

Shona Loong

Completed in 2021

At the margins of a "development darling": civil society, territory, and development in Karen State, Myanmar

Supervisors: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Professor Fiona McConnell
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics; Environmental Interactions

Alejandra Mora Soto

Completed in 2021

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

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

Janak Padhiar

Completed in 2021

Towards understanding life course geographies of young Afghans in India

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

Kevin Rattue

Completed in 2021

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

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

Liam Saddington

Completed in 2021

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

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

Qiujie Shi

Completed in 2021

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

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

Ranu Sinha

Completed in 2021

Pathways to Water Security: Evaluating the impacts of irrigation investments in Madhya Pradesh, India

Supervisors: Professor Rob Hope; Professor Simon Dadson
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Filipa Soares

Completed in 2021

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

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

Bernard Soubry

Completed in 2021

Climate Resilience on Maritime Farms: Exploring adaptation options for small-scale agriculture and food systems in Eastern Canada

Supervisor: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Kate Sherren (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Simona Sulikova

Completed in 2021

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

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

Lisa Thalheimer

Completed in 2021

Methods of Attributing Human Mobility to Climate Change: Evidence from East Africa

Supervisor: Professor Friederike Otto
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Boipelo Tshwene-Mauchaza

Completed in 2021

A re-design of Chobe National Park management system to optimise effectiveness under climate change: systems thinking approach

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

Yinghong Wang

Completed in 2021

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Zhe Wang

Completed in 2021

Cityzenship: a study of transnational Chinese student returnees in three megacities in mainland China

Supervisor: Dr Johanna Waters
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Alice Watson

Completed in 2021

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

Supervisors: Professor Fiona McConnell; Professor Gillian Rose
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria

Completed in 2021

Linking interactions between cultural and biological diversity on the Pacific coast of North America in the face of climate change

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

Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan

Completed in 2020

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Hanno Brankamp

Completed in 2020

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

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

Laura Brinker

Completed in 2020

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

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

Vanessa Burns

Completed in 2020

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

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

Eric (Tak Hin) Chan

Completed in 2020

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

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

Micol Chiesa

Completed in 2020

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

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

Tess Doeffinger

Completed in 2020

Evaluating Water Security: Diagnostics and Trends

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Kaja Fenn

Completed in 2020

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

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Dr Julie Durcan; Dr Ian Miller (British Geological Survey)
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Alexander Fischer

Completed in 2020

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

Supervisor: Professor Rob Hope

Tom Hashimoto

Completed in 2020

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

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

Dina Hestad

Completed in 2020

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

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

Jiashun Huang

Completed in 2020

Infrastructure, the Economy and Policy

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

Michelle Lanzoni

Completed in 2020

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

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

Nadezhda Mamontova

Completed in 2020

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

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

Martin Michette

Completed in 2020

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

John Mittermeier

Completed in 2020

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

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

Kelsi Nagy

Completed in 2020

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

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

Ciaran Nash

Completed in 2020

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

Supervisor: Professor Giles Wiggs
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Nicolas Raab

Completed in 2020

Modelling tree carbon allocation, gas and energy exchange in the Amazon through functional structural models

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

Jose Ramirez Mendiola

Completed in 2020

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

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

Jennifer Richards

Completed in 2020

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

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

June Rubis

Completed in 2020

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

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

Laure Rurangwa

Completed in 2020

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

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

Aven Satre Meloy

Completed in 2020

Characterising temporal aspects of residential electricity consumption using advanced multivariate statistics

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

Rhian Scott

Completed in 2020

The contemporary warehouse studio: an extension of artist and urban landscape

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Dr Thomas Jellis
Research cluster: Technological Life: Environments, Bodies, Mobilities

Xuanyi Sheng

Completed in 2020

The governance and management of public-private partnerships bringing together stakeholders in the realization of complex engineering projects - One Belt One Road Initiative

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

Aayush Srivastava

Completed in 2020

Quaternary of the Thar Desert in India: understanding the history of dune accumulation with the aid of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating

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

Serkan Birgel

Completed in 2019

Peacebuilding through natural resources - the case of Cyprus

Supervisors: Dr Richard Powell; Professor Fiona McConnell
Research clusters: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice; Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Catherine Buckland

Completed in 2019

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

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

Anabelle Cardoso

Completed in 2019

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

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

Theodor Cojoianu

Completed in 2019

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

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

Amy Creese

Completed in 2019

Climate change in the Congo Basin: evaluating coupled models

Supervisor: Professor Richard Washington
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Nina Doering

Completed in 2019

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

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

Andrew Dwyer

Completed in 2019

Malware Ecologies: A Politics of Cybersecurity

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

Alexander Eduful

Completed in 2019

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

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

Lucie Fusade

Completed in 2019

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Sofya Gavrilova

Completed in 2019

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

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

Jennifer Gooden

Completed in 2019

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

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

Agne Gvozdevaite

Completed in 2019

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

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

Toby Jackson

Completed in 2019

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

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

Jacob Katuva

Completed in 2019

Groundwater and welfare in coastal Kenya

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

Xiawei Liao

Completed in 2019

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

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

Scott MacDonald

Completed in 2019

An international comparison of voluntary green electricity tariffs

Supervisor: Professor Nick Eyre
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Cuthbert Makondo

Completed in 2019

Options in Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Mitigation: Evidence from Zambia's Rural-Rural Migration

Supervisor: Professor David S.G. Thomas
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems; Environmental Interactions

Peter Martin

Completed in 2019

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

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

Emma McIntosh

Completed in 2019

An evidence-based evaluation of systematic conservation planning

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

Christine Moore

Completed in 2019

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

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

Callum Munday

Completed in 2019

Representation of southern African climate in coupled models

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

Cyrus Nayeri

Completed in 2019

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

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

Kiron Neale

Completed in 2019

Beyond Implementation: Mainstreaming Residential Solar Energy in Trinidad

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

Thanti Octavianti

Completed in 2019

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

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

Homero Paltan Lopez

Completed in 2019

Surface water sensitivity to climate variability

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

Helge Peters

Completed in 2019

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

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

Ruksana Rimi

Completed in 2019

Anthropogenic climate change and extreme weather events: implications for Bangladesh

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

Aniket Shah

Completed in 2019

The economic geography of development banking for sustainable development

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

Matthew Shepherd

Completed in 2019

Geothermal Urbanism: Making the elemental explicit in Reykjavík

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

Guanli Zhang

Completed in 2019

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

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

Festus Asaaga

Completed in 2018

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

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

Negar Elodie Behzadi

Completed in 2018

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

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

Iliana Cardenes Trujillo

Completed in 2018

Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle

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

Heuishilja Chang

Completed in 2018

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

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

Pierre-Louis Choquet

Completed in 2018

Fragmented horizons: multinational firms and ethical life in the Anthropocene

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

Anna Davidson

Completed in 2018

Moblizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles

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

Irina Fedorenko

Completed in 2018

Environmental activism, non-governmental organisations and new generation of civil society in Russia and China

Supervisors: Professor Judith Pallot; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Mark Fransham

Completed in 2018

Understanding neighbourhood income poverty dynamics in England

Supervisor: Professor Danny Dorling; Dr Rachel Loopstra (Department of Sociology, Oxford)
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Elizabeth Harnett

Completed in 2018

The diffusion of responsible investment discourses and practices: the role and impact of investment consultants

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

Xi (Sisi) Hu

Completed in 2018

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Anna Hushlak

Completed in 2018

Campaigning in the age of digital media: exploring the influences of digital affordances on campaigning in environmental non-governmental organisations

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

Christopher Kaminker

Completed in 2018

The role of institutional investors in financing sustainable energy

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

Johanna Koehler

Completed in 2018

Water risks and institutional change in Kenya

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

Yingqi Liu

Completed in 2018

The role of the forward capacity market in promoting electricity use reduction: case studies of the electricity demand reduction (EDR) pilot in the UK and international schemes in North America and Europe

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Darby; Professor Nick Eyre
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Penelope Mealy

Completed in 2018

'Know What?' New lens on productive knowledge shed light on long run development structural change, job switching and the transition to the green economy

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

Stephanie Mooij

Completed in 2018

The (mis)alignment of ESG perspectives in the investment chain. A cross-country analysis of the obstacles facing companies, asset managers and asset owners.

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Prof C Mayer
Research cluster: Economy and Society: Transformations and Justice

Sarah Morton

Completed in 2018

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

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

Scott Allan Orr

Completed in 2018

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Rafael Pereira

Completed in 2018

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

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

Brice Perombelon

Completed in 2018

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

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

Alexander Pfeiffer

Completed in 2018

The 'decarbonisation identity' and pathways to net-zero: the scale and impact of committed cumulative carbon emissions and stranded assets in the electricity generation sector on the decarbonisation of the economy

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

Michael Urban

Completed in 2018

Placing the production of investment returns: an economic geography of asset management in public pension plans

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

Kevin Wheeler

Completed in 2018

Cooperation or conflict in trans-boundary rivers with the emergence of climate variability: a case study of the Nile River

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Meghan Bailey

Completed in 2017

Robust adaptation planning and decision-making: a comparative study of subsistence-oriented communities in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and West Africa

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

Jonathan Balls

Completed in 2017

Fluid capitalism at the bottom of the pyramid: a study of the off-grid solar power market in Uttar Pradesh, India

Supervisor: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Prof M. McCartney (SAS)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Abrar Chaudhury

Completed in 2017

Organising climate change adaptation: an organisation and network perspective to agriculture adaptation in developing countries

Supervisors: Dr Tom Thornton; Dr Ariella Helfgott; Dr Marc Ventresca (SSB)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Lisa Choi

Completed in 2017

Mobilities and socio-spatialities in the Aerotropolis: Dallas-Fort Worth and New Songdo City

Supervisors: Professor Derek McCormack; Professor Linda McDowell
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Christopher Coghlan

Completed in 2017

Towards food security with nutritional health: multi-scale approaches

Megan Cole

Completed in 2017

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

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

Andrew Dansie

Completed in 2017

The role of windblown dust from ephemeral river valleys in the fertilisation of the Benguela Upwelling System

Supervisors: Professor David S.G. Thomas; Professor Giles Wiggs
Research clusters: Landscape Dynamics; Climate Systems

Sasha Engelmann

Completed in 2017

The cosmological aesthetics of Tomás Saraceno's atmospheric experiments

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

Franziska Gaupp

Completed in 2017

The global impact of droughts on agricultural production

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

Saher Hasnain

Completed in 2017

Food environments in Islamabad, Pakistan

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

Ashley Kingsborough

Completed in 2017

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Julian Kirchherr

Completed in 2017

The Anti-Dam Protest Cycle: Evidence from Asia

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

Christopher Lander

Completed in 2017

Foreign Direct Investment in the Russian Agrarian Sector

Supervisor: Professor Judith Pallot
Research cluster: Political Worlds: Place, Power, Politics

Qiong Lu

Completed in 2017

Modelling of pesticides and POPs in the River Thames System: potential impacts of changes in climate and management

Supervisor: Professor Paul Whitehead
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Ewan Macdonald

Completed in 2017

Clouds on the horizon: identifying global priorities for conservation marketing and planning the conservation of the Sunda clouded leopard on Borneo

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

Ashley Massey

Completed in 2017

Sacred forests and conservation on a landscape scale

Jerome Mayaud

Completed in 2017

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

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

Gregory Ortiz

Completed in 2017

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

Viresh Patel

Completed in 2017

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

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

Rowan Popplewell

Completed in 2017

Creating spaces for peace? Civil society, political space and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Rachel Hayman (INTRAC)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Alexandra Rowell

Completed in 2017

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

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

Rachael Tily

Completed in 2017

Space, research objects and interdisciplinarity in geomorphological inquiry

Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell; Prof Andrew Barry
Research clusters: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Laura-Marie Töpfer

Completed in 2017

Mapping Chinese cross-border finance: actors, networks and institutional development

Supervisor: Professor Gordon L. Clark; Dr Michael Viehs
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Thomas Turnbull

Completed in 2017

From paradox to policy: the problem of energy resource conservation in Britain and America, 1865-1981

Supervisor: Dr Richard Powell; Prof Andrew Barry
Research cluster: Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics

Xiaoyang Wang

Completed in 2017

Pathways to international financial centre formation with Chinese characteristics: a view from Shanghai

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

Ariell Ahearn-Ligham

Completed in 2016

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

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

Samin Ahmad

Completed in 2016

What controls algal greening of sandstone heritage? An experimental approach

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Thomas Ashfold

Completed in 2016

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

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

Cristina Cabello Briones

Completed in 2016

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

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Becky Catarelli

Completed in 2016

Rising seas, surprising storms: temporalities of climate and catastrophe in Vermont, New York and the Florida Keys

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

Cecilia Chavana-Bryant

Completed in 2016

Impacts of leaf age on the spectral and physiochemical traits of trees in Amazonian forest canopies

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Dr France Gerard (CEH)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Tahia Devisscher

Completed in 2016

Wildfire under a changing climate in the Bolivian Chiquitania: a social-ecological systems analysis

Supervisor: Professor Yadvinder Malhi; Professor Emily Boyd (Reading)
Research clusters: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation; Climate Systems

Adam Elliott-Cooper

Completed in 2016

The Struggle that has No Name: Policing, space and community resistance in neoliberal Britain

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

Timothy Foster

Completed in 2016

From cash flows to water flows: an assessment of financial risks to rural water supply sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

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

Linda Geaves

Completed in 2016

Public priorities and public goods: the drivers and responses to transitions in flood risk management

Supervisors: Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell; Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Rory Hill

Completed in 2016

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

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

Carlo Inverardi Ferri

Completed in 2016

Invisible spaces: variegated geographies of waste in China

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

Irem Kok

Completed in 2016

Politics of transparency: contested spaces of corporate responsibility, science and regulation in shale gas projects of the UK and US

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

Alex Littaye

Completed in 2016

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

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

Yuge Ma

Completed in 2016

The emergence of low carbon development in China and India: energy efficiency as a lens

Supervisors: Professor Nick Eyre; Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright; Barbara Harriss-White
Research clusters: Climate Systems; Technological Natures: Materials, Cities, Politics; Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

David Maguire

Completed in 2016

Learning to serve time: troubling spaces of working class masculinities in the UK

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

Balqis Mohamed Rehan

Completed in 2016

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

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Andre Neves

Completed in 2016

The impact of walking and cycling infrastructure on personal travel and carbon emissions: the case of Cardiff Connect2

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

Yukie Saito

Completed in 2016

Corporate engagement for sustainable business in development

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

Nicholas Simcik-Arese

Completed in 2016

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

Chase Sova

Completed in 2016

Decision making, agenda setting and preference shaping in Ghana's agricultural climate change adaptation policy regime: a political ecological perspective

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

Sarah Terry

Completed in 2016

Spaces for nature: neoliberal conservation in post-Reformasi South Sumatra

Supervisors: Dr Paul Jepson; Professor Robert J. Whittaker
Research cluster: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation

Scott Thacker

Completed in 2016

Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Kerrie Thornhill

Completed in 2016

Reconstructed meanings of gender violence in postwar Liberia

Supervisor: Professor Patricia Daley; Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (QEH, Oxford)
Research cluster: Transformations: Economy, Society and Place

Marina Topouzi

Completed in 2016

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

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

Charlotte von Mangoldt

Completed in 2016

Student environmentalism in Beijing, China

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

Liwen Wang

Completed in 2016

Developing innovation capability: the case of Chinese automobile companies

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

Katrin Wilhelm

Completed in 2016

Improving non-destructive techniques for in situ stone weathering research

Supervisor: Professor Heather Viles
Research cluster: Landscape Dynamics

Yin Yang

Completed in 2016

The economic geography of urban water infrastructure investment and governance - a comparison of Beijing and London

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

Kate Young

Completed in 2016

Strategic appraisal of interdependent infrastructure provision

Supervisor: Professor Jim Hall
Research cluster: Climate Systems

Zichen Zhang

Completed in 2016

Electric vehicles in China: past, present and future

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