Staff Members
 | Dr Ariell AhearnDepartmental Lecturer in Human Geography |
 | Dr Jake BarnesResearcher, ECI |
 | Dr Aoife BrophyDepartmental Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, SSEE |
 | Dr Hannah BudnitzResearch Associate in Urban Mobility, TSU |
 | Professor Katrina CharlesProfessor of Environmental Health Risks |
 | Professor Danny DorlingHalford Mackinder Professor of Geography |
 | Professor Sam FankhauserProfessor of Climate Economics and Policy |
 | Dr Fiona FerbracheCollege Lecturer |
 | Dr Neven FučkarSenior Researcher, ECI |
 | Dr Catherine GrashamPostdoctoral Researcher in Water Security and Society (Social Scientist), SSEE |
 | Professor Cameron HepburnDirector of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, SSEE |
 | Dr Radhika KhoslaAssociate Professor, SSEE |
 | Dr Marina Korzenevica-ProudPostdoctoral Researcher in Ethnography |
 | Professor Anna Lora-WainwrightProfessor of the Human Geography of China |
 | Dr Jennie MiddletonAssociate Professor in Human Geography |
 | Dr Julien MigozziPostdoctoral Research Fellow |
 | Dr Jasper MontanaDepartmental Lecturer in Human Geography |
 | Dr Amber MurreyAssociate Professor in Human Geography |
 | Dr Juan Pablo OrjuelaSenior Research Associate and Executive Education Programme Director, TSU |
 | Dr Anna PlyushtevaDepartmental Research Lecturer in Transport Studies, TSU |
 | Tom RussellSoftware Technician, ECI |
 | Dr Alex VasudevanAssociate Professor in Human Geography |
 | Johannes WagnerEarly Stage Researcher |
 | Professor Dariusz WójcikProfessor of Economic Geography |
 | Dr Monika ZurekSenior Researcher, ECI |
Cluster Co-ordinating Team
- Dr Alexander Vasudevan
Cluster Co-ordinator - Dr Ariell Ahearn
Cluster Co-ordinator
Graduate Research Students
We have a number of graduate research students actively involved in current research:
Maryam AltafGendered Mobilities and Platform-based Transport Services in Lahore, Pakistan |
Xiang AoLinking "place thinking" and "flow thinking" for urban industry development: an empirical study of China |
Andrew ArmstrongRevenue patterns of piped water services in rural Africa |
Mari AroldLooping forest: Analogue and digital mediations of landscape and identities in post-Soviet Estonia |
Moritz BaerClimate Risks and the Financial System - The role of climate-stress testing for central banks and financial regulators |
Konstantin BornCircular economy and eco-innovation in the mining sector |
Joris BückerLong term (economic) policy tools based on complexity economics and the non-linear planetary impact of climate change |
Andrea ByfuglienA behavioural perspective on decisions around land use: on social influence, risk, and collective action |
Sangwon ChaeThe Shifting Urban Paradigm and the Politics of Alternative Urban Place-Making: a case study on Seoul, South Korea |
Ho-Yin (Tommy) ChanTowards resilient cities, communities and individuals: Cutting across the top-down-bottom-up dichotomy through citizen initiatives in everyday transport practices and planning |
Rachael ChanThe Staging of Indigeneity in Taiwan as a Geopolitical Strategy |
Yi-Ting ChangFrom geo- to astropolitics: How Taiwan constructs vertical territory within the global satellite network |
Alex ClarkStranded states: Public management of fossil fuel assets in the international system |
Kerry ConstabileUrban 100% Renewable Energy Pathways: Assessing the drivers that shift grids from Brown to Green |
Paulo de SouzaCan society and corporations share the same perspective on sustainability? Should they? |
Gaurav DubeyPolitical economy of low carbon mobility transitions - the case of electric mobility in India |
Adam FerrisStudying decision architecture to find key behavioural intervention measures for increased traction in green consumption |
Bruno FriedelDelivering cohousing for a carbon and resource constrained world, what role for community groups, what role for the state |
Lily GilderRethinking therapeutic landscapes: diverse encounters with nature for care experienced young people |
Wenbo GuoMobility, subjective well-being and health in transitional China: towards socially sustainable cities |
Yifan HanA demand atlas for the planning, operations and upgrading of bicycle-sharing systems |
Tiger HillsPracticing Reconciliation: Producing Peace? |
Raffaele IppolitoGlobal Environmental (in)Activism: An Ethnography of Pollution, Illness and Community Resistance in Italy and Taiwan |
Jimmy JiaA new tool for energy and environmental valuation to improve decision making for capital deployment of climate-resilient infrastructure |
Kristina KaempferFinancial Elites and the Spatial Variation of Inequality: Examining the Intersection of Gender, Race and Class in Frankfurt, London and New York City |
Abdul Wahid KhanThe 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 |
Nameerah KhanBangladesh's arsenic crisis: Navigating the complexities of the science-policy interface of water quality and health |
Tonny KukeeraHolistic Business Models: Connecting Electricity Access to Sustainable Development |
Sieun LeeCaring in the night-time city: filling the spatio-temporal gaps in childcare |
Faryal LeghariCould 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 |
Jin Hee LimInfrastructural intersection and everyday experiences of state and status in Northern Thailand. |
Alexander ManbyGeographies of Naga (Inter)nationalism 1946-2022 |
Sylvia McKelvieToxic Territories, Health Futures: Geographies of Drug Epidemics in Los Angeles County, US |
Alex MidlenThe making of a global blue economy ‘governmentality’? Alternative futures in governance of marine resources. |
Anca MihalacheTime-varying electricity tariffs policy design: an integrated approach |
Samuel Miller McDonaldEgalitarian Energy: Challenges to Neoliberal Discourse in Distributed Community Energy Programs |
Jelani MunroeCan austerity transform the public sector and services for its citizens? Lessons from Jamaica and the IMF since 2010 |
Max NathansonDefining Climate Security: the Root Causes of US-Bound Migration since NAFTA |
Kristina NilssonPublic finance and drinking water services in rural Africa and Asia |
Adam ParrLaw and regeneration in seventeenth-century England |
Ignacio PerezExamining the role of data in smart city management: following the transport data dispositif in Santiago de Chile |
Rebecca PetersBringing back Golden Bangladesh: Regulation, institutions, and the political economy of river pollution |
Mihaela-Claudia PopIncome Composition Inequality from Socialism to Capitalism |
Carter PowisA multi-disciplinary analysis of the role of transient negative emissions in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement |
Akaraseth PuranasamriddhiThe Fiscal Implications of Climate Risks to Critical Infrastructure |
Xiyu RenThe impact of the energy transition on the economy: studies on the pattern and the relationship between policy contexts, firm decisions and innovation choices |
Ian RobertsonA Framework for Responsible Investment, with particular focus on proxy voting |
Sandra Serumaga-ZakeWater Infrastructure Finance in sub-Saharan Africa |
Sugandha SrivastavEssays on the post-carbon transition |
Simphiwe Laura StewartA comparative political geography of populism: the rise of the EFF (in South Africa) and the Rassemblement National (in France) 1990 - 2019. |
Sarah Hui Ann TanHazy memories: Exploring the relationship between 'eco-social histories' and risk perception through the lived experience of haze pollution in Malaysia |
Johannes WagnerResearch project on Rural Water Finance in Africa, with fieldwork in rural Mali and in cooperation with UDUMA. |
Christian WilsonParis Aligned Portfolios and the Real Economy |
Interested in studying with us?
Please see our International Graduate School for more information and how to apply.
Visiting Research Associates
We also host visiting researchers throughout the year and have a number of associated and affiliated non-resident researchers:
Dr Paola BallonHonorary Research Associate, SSEE |
Interested in becoming a Visiting Research Associate?
Please see our Policy and Criteria for Visiting Research Associate Status for more information.