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Search for our most recently awarded PhDs from 2017 onwards

Current Research Students

2022

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Thesis

Tania Guerrero RiosUsing financialised housing as a planning instrument: the impact of urban containment policies on affordable housing in Mexico City

Jack Layton Urban public sports facilities: social infrastructure and the public life of cities

Nilufer Sari Aslam Inferring Trip Purposes from Travel Smart Card Data

Joanna TindallLacustrine oxygen isotopes as tracers of past climate change in NW Europe

Eleri PritchardNew approaches for exploring signal crayfish invasion biology and ecological impacts in headwater streams

2021

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Lo Lanfear Navigating gender diverse worlds assembled upon binary expectations: Investigating the experiences of trans people living in Britain

Damian Oyarzun ValenzuelaClimate Change and Air Pollution Relationships. Lessons from a Subtropical Desert Region

Anna Cutmore Insights into the nature of climate and vegetation changes over the last 28,000 years using combined pollen and leaf-wax biomarker analyses from the SW Iberian Margin

Jihyun Lee
Going global? International students, UK higher education and the pursuit of an international career

Evelina Gambino(Re)producing the logistical future: ethnography, infrastructure and the making of Georgia’s global connections

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2020

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Ffion Carney

Mobility insights through consumer data: a case study of concessionary bus travel in the West Midlands

Lucy DablinDesigning silvopastoral systems for the Amazon: a framework for the evaluation of native species

Alix GreenAssessing the impact of environmental pressures on seagrass Blue Carbon stocks in the British Isles

James BrennanNew techniques and insights for burned area monitoring from remote sensing data

Tim Rains Big Consumer Data: Understanding shopping patterns using loyalty cards

Suriyah Bi Marriage and masculinities in motion: Examining the migrant husband’s experience in Birmingham’s British Pakistani community

Khatereh Eghdamian Rethinking 'Religious Identity' in Refugee 'Integration': An examination into representations and experiences of Syrian 'Religious Minority' refugees in Berlin, Germany

Lioba Hirsch Antiblackness and global health: placing the 2014-15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone in the colonial wake

Jonathan Lewis-Phillips Contribution of pond management to local bird abundance and diversity on farms in lowland England

Murray MckenzieComing together and apart in Heiqiao Village, Beijing: urban life, artistic practices, and the making of social worlds

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2019

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Thesis

Shaun Teo

Symbiotic states and progressive projects: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation

Thien Vinh NguyenTranscalar Urban Governance: Planning and Development in the “Oil-City” of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Balamurugan SoundararajEstimating Footfall From Passive Wi-Fi Signals: Case Study with Smart Street Sensor Project
Adam ByrneThe Origins, Design and Implementation of the UK Climate Change Act 2008
Jim Hudson“Not alone and not in a home!”: The negotiation of later life as a cohousing group in Berlin
Karlo LugomerThe Composition and Functioning of Retail Areas
Alex MaLabour migration, remittances and development in the Myanmar-Singapore corridor
Richard Walton“The pond pollinator pantry”: Assessing how pond management influences pollinators in the UK farmland landscape
David SeddonThe Climate Controls and Process of Groundwater Recharge in a Semi-Arid Tropical Environment: Evidence from the Makutapora Basin, Tanzania
Matheus Boni VicariOn leaf and wood separation from Terrestrial LiDAR data
Pooya GhoddousiDimorphic diasporas: Assembling identity, community belonging, and collective action among Iranians in London
Richard MazebediTrophic characteristics of aquatic habitats with different flooding regimes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Frances BrillThe Developer in Question: a comparative analysis of real estate developers in Modderfontein, Johannesburg and London’s Royal Docks
Daniel ChadwickInvasion of the signal crayfish, 'Pacifastacus leniusculus', in England: implications for the conservation of the white-clawed crayfish, 'Austropotamobius pallipes'
Poppy HardingEcosystem Responses to Abrupt Climatic and Environmental Change in Southern Siberia during the Late Quaternary
Michael NattrassCommonsensical Understandings of Everyday Infrastructures for Cycling in Car Dominated Transport Environments: Rule-Making, Rule-Breaking and Social Justification
Emily SmithConduits of Invasive Species into the UK: The Angling Route?
Alexander KochEarth System impact of historical and future reforestation
Soledad Martinez RodriguezMay I Walk with You? Exploring Urban Inequality in Everyday Walking Practices in Santiago de Chile
Andrew PapworthAn analysis of the food security of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua
Jennifer AdamsQuality assurance for biophysical Earth-Observation (EO) products of vegetation flux and structure
Tom BrocketBetween East Coast and West Bank: An ethnographic study of second-generation Palestinian-Americans’ relationship to Palestine and Palestinianness
Sara MartinsEcohydrology of temporary ponds
Anastasia UshakovaGenerating Insights from Smart Meter Data: Challenges and Opportunities
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2018

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Thesis

Fatema JahanGender and agency: clothing consumption practices of women factory workers in Bangladesh
Lucien GeorgesonRedefining and measuring the global green economy: tracking green economy transformations using transactional data
Alyson LloydThe applications of loyalty card data for social science
Sarah KunzThe ‘Expatriate’: The Postcolonial Politics of a Migration Category
Hannah Fair'Not Drowning but Fighting': Faith, Activism, and Climate Change Narratives in the Pacific Islands
Niranjana RameshInfrastructures with a pinch of salt: comparative techno-politics of desalination in Chennai and London
Amanda Robinson

Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia
Daniel LapworthHydrogeological responses to deep groundwater pumping in the Indo-Gangetic Basin: Evidence from environmental tracers

Isabel BishopUnderstanding the habitat and decline of Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & Schmidt in the UK using ecology and paleoecology
Frank GermanMigration, work and housing in Northampton, 1841-71
Mandy RobinsonUncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia
Michael SchembriAspects of embayed beach morphology in a micro-tidal setting in Malta
Guy LansleyBig data: geodemographics and representation
Sam PageA year in Labour: rethinking political parties, campaigns and elections through assemblage and affect
Jessica DurkotaGroundwater Ecology: Invertebrate Community Distribution across the Benthic, Hyporheic and Phreatic Habitats of a Chalk Aquifer in Southeast England
Cecil SagoeEnglish planning and governmentality: the case of the London Legacy Development Corporation
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2017

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Jennifer AdamsMultiproxy reconstructions of recent environmental change: understanding the ecological response of shallow lakes within the Selenga River basin, southeast Siberia, to anthropogenic and natural disturbances
Hannah Robson

Causes of decline of common scoter (Melanitta nigra) in north Scotland: evidence from palaeolimnology
Myfanwy TaylorContested urban economies: representing and mobilising London's diverse economy
Samuel BartonAlienation and Authenticity in Brixton: An ethnography of a changing neighbourhood
Alvaro Sanchez JimenezUrban crises across the North-South divide: A comparative study of institutional transformations and urban policy responses in Valencia and Mar del Plata
Emily Alderton“Ghost ponds”: Resurrecting lost ponds and species to assist aquatic biodiversity conservation
Andrew BurtNew 3D measurements of forest structure
Clare DuncanMangrove forest ecosystem services: Biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation and resilience to climate change
Alistair LeakApplications of new forms of data to demographics
Michel WortmannAdaptation and implementation of the European, hydrological model SWIM to arid, glacier and snow melt water dominated catchments in NW China
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