Our PhD candidates
Funded PhD students and their research areas.
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Our PhD candidates receive financial support to undertake their studies from a variety of sources. These include UK research councils (particularly ESRC and EPSRC), University funding (both fee waivers and scholarships offering maintenance funding), and overseas governments and funding organisations (for example, CONACYT for students from Mexico).
Geography PhD candidates
| Name | Research area |
| Rosie Archer | Emulating the last Eurasian Ice Sheet |
| Shriya Bajaj | Inequalities in Market Access to Nutrient Dense Foods: A Mixed Methods Investigation in Rural India |
| Aishwarya Bhuta | Interrogating NGO-isation, Rethinking Women's Empowerment: Case Studies from India |
| Ingun Borg | |
| Ollie Chesworth | Interrogating the nature of foodscapes and alternative food-economies through alternative food spaces |
| Ben Cornford | An investigative study into Concentric Crater Fills and their relationship with Martian glacial and climate histories |
| Charlotte Curry | The Impacts of Climate Change and Mining on Glaciers in the Andes |
| Rebecca England | Spectroscopic measurements of volcanic gases in volcanic environments |
| William Haynes | Seen and unseen: homeless migrants at Stazione Termini in Rome |
| Alyssa Heggison | Automated Analysis of Volcano Imagery with Machine Learning Techniques |
| Josephine Hornsey | |
| Ella Hubbard | Democratic Politics for Community Economies |
| Davi Lemos | Carnival as Queer Claim: Reappropriating Rio de Janeiro’s streets through LGBTQ+ celebratory performances |
| Virginia Longo | Engineer crop behaviours to respond to extreme climatic conditions |
| Laura Maratou-Kolias | Female Household-Headship, Agricultural Productivity, and Factor and Output Markets: The Case of Uganda’s Cotton Smallholder Farmers |
| Teresa (Tete') Mausse | Informal Water Provision: Enabling or Constraining -Sustainable- Development? |
| Winnie M Musivo | |
| Mwanja Mwale | The good life? Focusing a capability lens on Zambia's social cash transfer programme |
| Tarja Rannisto | Wellbeing benefits of sustainable urban woodlands: The significance of aesthetic awareness in cities environmental strategies in terms of people's wellbeing |
| Luke Richardson | Dynamics of Glacier blood: Understanding climatically important extremophiles from the continental to molecular scale |
| Dimitra Pilichou | Does living in an eco-community make you happier? - Critical evaluation of case studies from Greece as potential alternative development pathways |
| Tessa Spano | Understanding fluvial sediment transport using infra-red stimulated luminescence |
| Katie Sumner | |
| Mirsu Tekin | Quantifying bioturbation rates of different earthworm functional groups using novel methods |
| Sian Thorpe | Investigation into the ice dynamic impact of active subglacial lake drainage |
| Remy Veness | Exploring sediment transfer beneath ice sheets from model-data comparisons encompassing changing ice flow geometries |
| Sihui Wen | Understanding of dust emission in the Gonghe basin in China |
| Will Wenban | Deciphering the Influence of Glacial Erosion on Alpine Landscape Evolution Through a Novel Application of Thermoluminescence Thermochronometry |
Urban studies and planning PhD candidates
| Name | Research area |
| Enes Aydin | Redefining Socio-Spatial Inequalities through Comparative Urban Policy Analysis in London and Berlin |
| Helen Brown | Understanding attitudes and perceptions amongst older people of housing and housing processes in an era of rising demand |
| James Beaumont | Out-of-area displacement: Exploring how England’s housing system is shaping new forms of urban marginalisation |
| Cihan Cagil | Changes in Inter-State Authority Relations in Contemporary Metropolitan Governance |
| Juliet de Little | Planning for resilience under multi-stakeholder risk management |
| Hoda Elhalaby | The effect of NGOs interventions on urban villages in Egypt |
| Mónica Martin Grau | Urban frictions: prosperity turns within Nairobi’s water tinkering practices |
| Francesca Guarino | Othered people in othered places: a critical and situated exploration of the challenges of cultural diversity in Palermo |
| George Jewitt | A better tomorrow: paternalism, totalitarianism, democracy |
| Xinyu Jin | Safeguarding the Past, Embracing the Future An Examination of Alternative Development Strategies for Chinese Historic Urban Quarters |
| Chan-Woo Kim | Commercial real estate rental markets in Europe |
| Stephanie Lacey | The impact of female homelessness on children's educational experiences in inner-city schools |
| Wanying Li | Residential Redevelopment: Eviction and the reconstruction of space in the lower half of Chongqing, China |
| Mateus Lira | The politics of resettlement and occupations in Brazil |
| Emma Mahoney | Understanding Power in Urban Climate Governance: The Case of Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Catherine Malpass | Schools as sites for integrated community food action |
| Abraham Mariech | Housing and disability within urban informality in Eldoret, Kenya |
| Michael Marshall | Financialisation, regulation and asset management in English housing associations |
| Charly H Morris | Migrant youth activisms: de-bordering practices and urban solidarities in re-imagining the city |
| Naomi Oates | Water service provision practices in Malawi |
| Inken Oldsen-thor Straten | An analysis of local authorities and property developers’ relations shaping spatial change in Cape Town and Johannesburg |
| Marion Oveson | Civic universities and social justice |
| Jenny Patient | Trade Unions and a 'just' transition to low carbon |
| Martyna Piliszewska | Why do they stay? Exploring the reasons why homeless Polish migrant workers remain in a state of prolonged destitution in post-Brexit Britain |
| Rahul Raj | Political Ecologies of Caste, Class and Precarious Labour in Indian Cities |
| Holly Rooke | Migration, Cities and Inequality |
| Sri Suryani | Displacements and urban water infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Xiao Tang | Investigation of how land use/cover change impact on housing price at Megaregion |
| Stephany Mercedes Vargas-Rojas | Governing forced migration in Colombia's peace transition: integrating urban resettlement and housing in the Llano Verde housing state in Cali, Colombia |
| Agustina Vazquez | Making Sense of Socio-Spatial Inequality: A Qualitative Study of Geographical Proximity and Social Distance in Buenos Aires |
| Nan Wang | Understanding the role of peer-to-peer accommodation in disrupting the neighbourhood: A new form of gentrification |
| Nancy Marcia L. Wilson | Housing discrimination in the Sheffield metropolitan area, 1960s to the present |
| Yu-Tung Wu | Housing and intergenerational inequality in the Taipei metropolitan area |
| Said Zaaneen | Urban refugee camps in the Gaza Strip |
| Rong Zheng | Exploring Children’s Nature-Based Place Attachment in High-density Metropolitan Areas |