PhD students
Below is a list of PhD students in the Department, undertaking graduate study.
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Current students
| Name | Cluster | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penelope Anthias | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Sarah Radcliffe |
| Alison Banwell | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Hydrology and Greenland icesheet. Funding: NERC. Began 2008. | Dr Ian Willis, Dr Neil Arnold |
| Joseph Barker | Historical and Cultural Geography | The emergence of agrarian capitalism: farm sizes in early modern England. Funding: ESRC. Began 2008. | Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor |
| Neeraj Baruah | Spaces of Economy & Society | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bob Haining, Dr Mike Bithell |
| Christine Batchelor | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Heather Bedi | Society, Environment and Development | Social Movements and Forestry Governance in India: Success and failures. Funding: Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust. Began 2007. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Lyn Boothman | Historical and Cultural Geography | Studying the Stayers - an investigation of the immobile population of Long Melford, Suffolk 1550-1861. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2008. | Prof Richard Smith |
| Arshiya Bose | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Chay Brooks | Historical and Cultural Geography | The Geographies of International Education and US Foreign Policy, c.1945-1969. Funding: AHRC. Began 2010. | Dr David Nally |
| Zhi Yu Cao | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Michael Herzog | |
| George Carothers | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Rohini Chaturvedi | Society, Environment and Development | Policy-making process associated with the national biodiversity support action plan (NBSAP) in India. Funding: ORS & Gates Scholarship. Began 2008. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Ziyue Chen | Environmental Processes | Modelling Urban Landscape Ecology Using Airborne Lidar Data. Funding: COT. Began 2009. | Dr Bernard Devereux |
| Tara Cookson | (Title tbc.). Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began 2011. | Dr Sarah Radcliffe | |
| Zoe Crisp | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor | |
| Joseph Day | Historical and Cultural Geography | Household Formation and Leaving Home in Nineteenth-Century Proto-Industrial England & Wales: 1851-1881. Funding: Domestic Research Studentship & Ellen McArthur Scholarship. Began 2009. | Prof Richard Smith |
| Salwa Elhalawani | Society, Environment and Development | Local community Participation in Protected Area Management: Egypt as a Case Study. Funding: BP Cambridge Scholarship for Egypt. Began 2009. | Prof Bill Adams |
| William Eucker | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Peter Evans | Society, Environment and Development | Transformations of Inuit resistance and identity in Northern Labrador, 1959-2005. Funding: Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Began 2005. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Iain Evans | Spaces of Economy & Society | The Evolution of Knowledge in Emerging Clusters: clean-tech clusters in the UK. Funding: ESRC. Began 2007. | Prof Ron Martin, Dr Tim Vorley |
| Lauren Evans | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bill Adams, Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Lindsay Galbraith | Society, Environment and Development | Reconciling climate change and sustainability agendas in the project appraisal process: Planning for self-sufficiency in Haida Gwaii British Columbia, Canada. Funding: Self and Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Began 2009. | Prof Susan Owens |
| Emma Gatti | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Sebastian Gibson | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Philip Gibbard | |
| Girija Godbole | Society, Environment and Development | Understanding the relationship between land & women in a rapidly changing rural society: The case of Maval tehsil, western Maharashtra, India. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began 2009. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Maria Godoi Millan | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Palaeoclimatology. Funding: Chilean Government Scholarship/ Universidad de Magallanes. Began 2003. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente | Society, Environment and Development | The Internationalization of China's Mining Industry: A Critical Political Economy of Chinese Mining Investment in Peru. Funding: Pedro Barrie de la Maza Foundation's Fellowship for PhD Studies in Europe. Began 2009. | Dr Emma Mawdsley, Dr Sarah Radcliffe |
| Paul Griffiths | Environmental Processes | Impact of aerosol particles on the precipitation efficiency of convective clouds. Funding: M Herzog studentship. Began 2008. | Dr Michael Herzog |
| Jorge Guzman | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Mapping the southern polar region. Funding: Self. Began 2005. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Andrew Hacket Pain | Environmental Processes | Continental-Scale Response of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) to environmental change. Funding: Department studentship. Began 2009. | Dr Andrew Friend |
| Mona Hamade | Cross-cluster | Gender and the Arab Workforce. Funding: Cambridge OSI Middle East. Began 2010. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Regina Hansda | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Irene Haycock | Historical and Cultural Geography | Agrarian Change in an Industrializing County: Staffordshire, 1650-1750. Funding: ESRC. Began 2010. | Prof Richard Smith, Dr Tim Bayliss-Smith |
| Siyuan (Susie) He | Environmental Processes | Soil moisture dynamics under different surface conditions in Kobresia meadow, Northern Tibet. Funding: CCS. Began 2009. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Kelby Hicks | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Alex Hoffmann | Environmental Processes | Deep Convection Modelling and Observations [provisional title]. Funding: CET/Luxembourg Gov. (AFR Scholarship). Began 2008. | Prof Hans-F. Graf |
| Kathryn Humphries | Society, Environment and Development | The Political Ecology of Community-Based Forest and Wildlife Management in Iringa Region, Tanzania: An Institutional Perspective. Funding: ESRC. Began 2009. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Kayla Iacovino | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Tehnuka Ilanko | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Charmaine Jelbert | Cross-cluster | Human Trafficking prevention: 2012 Olympics. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2010. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Melanie Jones | Historical and Cultural Geography | The urban park movement in the American South. Funding: ESRC. Began 2006. | Dr Jim Duncan |
| Ritu Kanotra | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Ritika Kapur | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Krista Kemppinen | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Friend | |
| Riam-Sarah Knapp | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Tania Kossberg | Society, Environment and Development | Mental Health and Suicide in Siberia. Funding: ESRC - EU fees only and DRS. Began 2008. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Eszter Kovàcs | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Tim Bayliss-Smith |
| Terto Kreutzmann | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Evelyn Landerer | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Karolina Leszczynska (Malinowska) | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Pleistocene glacigenic deposits in Essex, England. Funding: CT and Self-funded. Began 2007. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Jay Levy | Historical and Cultural Geography | The impacts of Swedish sex work legislation - an applicable model?. Funding: ESRC. Began 2008. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Yijing Li | Spaces of Economy & Society | Geography of robbery in Guangdong, Province, China. Funding: CSC Cambridge Scholarship. Began 2008. | Prof Bob Haining |
| Xingjian Liu | Spaces of Economy & Society | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bob Haining |
| Laura Loyola Hernandez | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Sarah Radcliffe | |
| Feng Mao | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Keith Richards |
| Stefano Mazzilli | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Iris Möller, Dr Tom Spencer |
| Adrian McCallum | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Assessing the relationship between snow density and strength, to provide insight into the development of foundations on snow. Funding: British A. Soc/Cmw Sch/Self-funded. Began 2007. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Han Meng | Environmental Processes | Ecoregional analysis of land cover conversion based on library of spectral change. Funding: CSC Cambridge Scholarship. Began 2008. | Dr Bernard Devereux |
| Yves Moussallam | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Isayvani Naicker | Society, Environment and Development | A study of science: People and practice in South African wildlife conservation. Funding: Mandela Cambridge Scholarship for Doctoral Study Abroad. Began 2006. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Martin O'Leary | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Stability of West Antarctic Ice Shelves. Funding: NERC. Began 2007. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| James Palmer | Society, Environment and Development | Knowledge, power and uncertainty in EU biofuels policy from a discursive-institutionalist perspective: The case of indirect land use change. Funding: ESRC. Began 2009. | Prof Susan Owens |
| Nial Peters | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Allen Pope | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Jackie Price | Society, Environment and Development | Inuit from Nunavut - understanding of the relationship between physical and conceptual spaces. Funding: CCT + Canadian sources. Began 2008. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Kirsten Purcell | Spaces of Economy & Society | Supporting, Justifying & Contesting Labour Education Policy Discourses: The Case of Academies. Funding: ESRC. Began 2006. | Dr Molly Warrington |
| Kavita Ramakrishnan | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Timothy Reilly | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
| David Christian Rose | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Susan Owens |
| Elizabeth Rough | Society, Environment and Development | Nuclear narratives in the UK. Funding: ESRC. Began 2007. | Prof Susan Owens |
| Cameron Rye | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Neil Arnold, Dr Ian Willis |
| Sushil Saigal | Society, Environment and Development | Trees outside forests: incentives and disincentives for tree planning by farmers. Funding: ORS & Gates Scholarship. Began 2006. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Judith Schleicher | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Stephen Scott-Fawcett | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Shino Shiode | Spaces of Economy & Society | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bob Haining |
| Ekaterina Shipigina | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Changes in Northern vegetation of the industrial impact regions of the local to regional scale using multiple dates of remote sensors. Funding: ORS + Eastern European Research Bursary. Began 2008. | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Andre Silveira | Society, Environment and Development | Processes of Integration in River Basin Management: the case of China's Zhujiang (Pearl River) basin and the European Union's experience. Funding: Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation. Began 2008. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Samuel Spiegel | Society, Environment and Development | The political ecology of poverty and gold: rethinking resource governance and local participation in East Africa. Funding: CT, Trinity Colleg, Trudeau Sch. Began 2007. | Dr Liz Watson |
| Jennifer Talbot | Society, Environment and Development | Watershed management and food security in Madagascar: the political ecology of ecosystem management. Funding: Self-funded + COS bursary. Began 2008. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Hongthai Tan | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Keith Richards |
| Stephen Taylor | Historical and Cultural Geography | Spaces of Experiment: Global Clinical Research and the Search for Cures in South Africa. Funding: ESRC. Began 2009. | Dr David Nally |
| Tatiana Thieme | Society, Environment and Development | Poverty, participation and entrepreneurshhip: Role for MNCs?. Funding: ESRC/CASE. Began 2008. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Anna Maria Trofaier | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Yaffa Truelove | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Paul van der Vegt | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Glacial systems sedimentation and tunnel valleys. Funding: Delft University. Began 2007. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Narelle van der Wel (Baker) | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Assessing the importance of subglacial hydrology on the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet: a numerical modelling approach. Funding: Cambridge Trust, Trinity College. Began 2005. | Dr Neil Arnold, Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Halliki Voolma | Cross-cluster | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Jude Browne |
| Judith Walcott | Society, Environment and Development | Discourse and development at the border: state projects and development interventions in Ecuador's northern Andes. Funding: Self/ORS/CT. Began 2004. | Dr Sarah Radcliffe |
| Chian-Yue (Andy) Wang | Spaces of Economy & Society | New Economic Geography - An Empirical Study on its Wage Equation. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust and Self-funded. Began 2007. | Prof Bob Haining, Prof Ron Martin |
| Yu (Matthew) Wang | Spaces of Economy & Society | GIS-based study of community health care in Jinan city (China): access to services and health outcomes. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust, and Greenleaf Foundation of Columbia University. Began 2008. | Prof Bob Haining |
| Claire Warrior | Historical and Cultural Geography | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Monica Wirz | Cross-cluster | Gendering executive selection practices. Funding: Egon Zhender Sch. Began 2010. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Dagmar Zadrazilova | Spaces of Economy & Society | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Philip Howell |
Recently completed
| Name | Cluster | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christina Adcock | Historical and Cultural Geography | Non-Institutional Knowledge and the Representation of the Canadian North, 1910-60. Funding: ORS, Commonwealth Trusts, Trinity Hall, Canadian Scholarships. Began 2006. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Talfan Barnie | Environmental Processes | Remote sensing of volcanic geology of North Afar, Ethopia. Funding: NERC Tied studentship. Began 2007. | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Deepti Bisht | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Structure and Geomorphology of Southeast Dinarides, Croatia. Funding: Cambridge Trusts. Began 2005. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| George Chorafakis | Spaces of Economy & Society | Technological development and complex evolutionary dynamics of emerging and innovative clusters in the periphery of the European knowledge economy. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2005. | Prof Ron Martin |
| Simon Coates | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Tucker | |
| Jie Ding | Environmental Processes | A study of spatially-distributed supply and delivery of sediment in the Xihanshu Basin, Gansu Province, China. Funding: Dorothy Hodgkin Sch. Began 2005. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Susannah Fisher | Society, Environment and Development | Cities and climate change in India: values, participation and knowledge within transnational environmental networks. Funding: ESRC. Began 2008. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Jennifer Gold | Historical and Cultural Geography | The scientific cultures of the British Colonial Forest Service and its postcolonial transformation. Funding: ESRC. Began 2006. | Dr Jim Duncan |
| Dinah Molloy Thompson | Historical and Cultural Geography | Wind Vectors and ice observations recorded in British Arctic whaling logs during the late 18th and early 19th centrury. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2004. | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Richard Paley | Society, Environment and Development | Drivers of management performance in Cambodian protected areas. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2006. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Letizia Spampinato | Environmental Processes | Thermal imaging of volcanoes. Funding: INGV. Began 2005. | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Catherine Sumnall | Historical and Cultural Geography | An investigation of bastardy in Carinthia, Austria c.1880-1960. Funding: ESRC. Began 2007. | Prof Richard Smith |
| Laur Vallikivi | Society, Environment and Development | Rhetoric and silence in Baptist conversion among Nenets reindeer herders. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began 2005. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
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