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) |
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| Gregory Akall | The impacts of climate change among Turkana Pastoralist of North-west Kenya: A study in livelihood disruption (1999 to 2009). Funding: Self-funded. Began January 2013. | Dr Liz Watson | |
| Penelope Anthias | Society, Environment and Development | The elusive promise of territory: a case study of indigenous land titling in the Bolivian Chaco. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2010. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Albert Arhin | Empowering vulnerable communities through climate policy: A comparative case of REDD in Ghana and Tanzania. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began October 2012. | Dr Liz Watson | |
| Joseph Barker | Historical and Cultural Geography | The emergence of agrarian capitalism: farm sizes in early modern England. Funding: ESRC. Began October 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 |
| Jonathan Bedder | Evaluate the Economic impact of Regional Development Agencies - an assessment of the effectiveness of the regional level in England for economic development. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2012. | Prof Ron Martin | |
| 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 October 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 October 2010. | Dr David Nally |
| Zhiyu 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 October 2008. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Ziyue Chen | Environmental Processes | Modelling Urban Landscape Ecology Using Airborne Lidar Data. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust. Began October 2009. | Prof Bob Haining, Dr Bernard Devereux |
| 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 October 2005. | Prof Ron Martin |
| Wai Yin Chung | The Region a a nexus of untraded interdependencies, or regions as nexuses of untraded interdependencies: a network approach to understanding intra-firm relations in the context of modern China. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2012. | Dr Mia Gray | |
| Wei-Yun Chung | The public sector gender landscape in Taiwan: An exploration of gender relations in the Taiwanese public sector workplace. Funding: Taiwan, Ministry of Education. Began October 2012. | Dr Mia Gray | |
| Simon Coates | New Industrial Bodies: Masculinity, Class and Unemployment in Post-Industrial Space. Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. Began October 2011. | Dr Andrew Tucker | |
| Tara Cookson | (Title tbc.). Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began October 2011. | Prof 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 October 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 October 2009. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Iain Evans | Spaces of Economy & Society | The Evolution of Knowledge in Emerging Clusters: clean-tech clusters in the UK. Funding: ESRC. Began October 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 |
| Rosalind Franklin | Charity and the City: design, lure and play of gifting spaces. Funding: King's Studentship; Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (Québec). Began October 2012. | Prof Ash Amin | |
| Lindsay Galbraith | Society, Environment and Development | Planning reform and the politics of reconciliation: An encounter with the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel on Haida Gwaii. Funding: Self-funded and Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Began October 2009. | Prof Susan Owens |
| Ben Gardiner | Understanding regional recession and growth patterns across Europe. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2012. | Prof Ron Martin | |
| Emma Gatti | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Jan (Laurens) Geffert | Improving species range map methodologies for marine biodiversity. Funding: Nippon Foundation Nereus Fellowship. Began October 2012. | Dr Tom Spencer, Dr Mike Bithell |
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| 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 October 2009. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Paul Griffiths | Environmental Processes | Impact of aerosol particles on the precipitation efficiency of convective clouds. Funding: M Herzog studentship. Began January 2009. | Dr Michael Herzog |
| Jorge Guzman | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Mapping the southern polar region. Funding: Self. Began October 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 October 2009. | Dr Andrew Friend |
| László Hunor Hajdu | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Friend | |
| Mona Hamade | Cross-cluster | Gender and the Arab Workforce. Funding: Cambridge OSI Middle East. Began October 2010. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Regina Hansda | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Jonathan Hanson | Snowleopards and sustainability: participatory conservation and development in the annapurna region of Nepal. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2012. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams | |
| Irene Haycock | Historical and Cultural Geography | Agrarian Change in an Industrializing County: Staffordshire, 1650-1750. Funding: ESRC. Began October 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 October 2009. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Alex Hoffmann | Environmental Processes | Deep Convection Modelling and Observations [provisional title]. Funding: CET/Luxembourg Gov. (AFR Scholarship). Began October 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 October 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 October 2010. | Dr Jude Browne |
| 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 | |
| Rozenn Keribin | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Friend |
| Sung-Mi Kim | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| 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 October 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 |
| Andy Chia-An Ku | Simulating spatial dynamic interactions between urban land use change and floods based on integrated framework. Funding: Ministry of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan. Began October 2012. | Dr Mike Bithell, Prof Keith Richards |
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| Evelyn Landerer | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Ave Lauren | The Rise of New Migrant Identities and Landscapes in San Francisco. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2012. | Dr Mia Gray | |
| James Lester | Emerging disease transmission in Western Uganda. Funding: ESRC-NIH - Vet School. Began October 2012. | Dr Simon Frost, Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
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| Yijing Li | Spaces of Economy & Society | Geography of crime in China since 1978 - a multiscale analysis. Funding: CSC Cambridge Scholarship. Began October 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.) | Prof 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 |
| Han Meng | Environmental Processes | Ecoregional analysis of land cover conversion based on library of spectral change. Funding: CSC Cambridge Scholarship. Began October 2008. | Dr Bernard Devereux |
| Evan Miles | Regional coupled glacier and hydrologic modeling in the Himalaya: Lake formation and outburst hazards. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began October 2012. | Dr Ian Willis | |
| Yves Moussallam | Environmental Processes | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Clive Oppenheimer |
| Della Murton | Palaeoenvironmental history of the Vale of York and Holdrness during the Late Pleistocene. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2012. | Prof Philip Gibbard | |
| Helen Mussell | Cross-cluster | Care & responsibility in business: can there be a connection?. Funding: Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Scholarship. Began October 2012. | Dr Tony Lawson, Prof Simon Deakin |
| 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 October 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 October 2008. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Thomas Pryke | Social Understanding, Policy Framing, and Environmental Change: Implications for Coastal Conservation. Funding: ESRC/NERC. Began October 2012. | Prof Bill Adams, Dr Tom Spencer |
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| Tim Tito Rademacher | An investigation into the impact of vegetation dynamics on the global carbon cycle using Hybrid 4.0 and field data: Back to the future of Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs). Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Self-funded. Began October 2012. | Dr Andrew Friend | |
| Kavita Ramakrishnan | Society, Environment and Development | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Dino Ratnaweera | The land-water-energy nexus: Distributing a model of integrated resource use. Funding: Norwegian State Educational Fund. Began October 2012. | Prof Keith Richards | |
| Timothy Reilly | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Ciaran Robb | Using airborne and spaceborne remote sensing to investigate glacier geomorphic processes. Funding: CHESS. Began October 2012. | Dr Ian Willis, Dr Neil Arnold |
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| David Christian Rose | Society, Environment and Development | Landscape-scale conservation in England under a changing climate: a study of policy convergence, knowledge transfer, and policy implementation. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2011. | Prof Susan Owens |
| Sushil Saigal | Society, Environment and Development | Trees outside forests: incentives and disincentives for tree planning by farmers. Funding: ORS & Gates Scholarship. Began October 2006. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Judith Schleicher | Society, Environment and Development | Assessing Conservation Outcomes: Peru's Conservation Concessions. Funding: ESRC. Began January 2011. | 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 |
| Roman Sidortsov | To what extent do Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia and the United States - the 5 Arctic coastal nations - take climate change considerations into account when developing and implementing their oil and gas policies in the Arctic. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust, Self-funded. Began October 2012. | Dr Piers Vitebsky | |
| 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 October 2008. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Shashi Singh | Political Economy of Land Acquisition and Resource Development in India: Case of Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh) and Hazaribagh (Jharkhand). Funding: British Council. Began January 2012. | Dr Bhaskar Vira | |
| 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 College, Trudeau Scholarship. Began January 2008. | Dr Liz Watson |
| Craig Stewart | Ocean processes and basal melting of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Funding: CCT and Rutherford Foundation (New Zealand). Began January 2012. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell, Dr Poul Christoffersen |
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| Yu Su | Study on the system innovation of the ecological compensation of Basin Water resources. Funding: CSC Cam. Intern. Scholarship. Began October 2012. | Prof Keith Richards | |
| 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 October 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 October 2009. | Dr David Nally |
| Tatiana Thieme | Society, Environment and Development | Poverty, participation and entrepreneurshhip: Role for MNCs?. Funding: ESRC/CASE. Began October 2008. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Joe Todd | Investigating flow sensitivity of Greenland outlet glaciers. Funding: NERC. Began October 2012. | Dr Poul Christoffersen | |
| 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 |
| Ronald Twongyirwe | Interactions of hydrology, vegetation and landuse. Funding: IDB Cam Intern Sch. Began October 2012. | Dr Mike Bithell, Prof Keith Richards |
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| Halliki Voolma | Cross-cluster | The Private is International: Domestic Violence Against Immigrant Women. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began October 2011. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Chian-Yue (Andy) Wang | Spaces of Economy & Society | New Economic Geography - An Empirical Study on its Wage Equation. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust, Self-funded. Began October 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, Greenleaf Foundation of Columbia University. Began October 2008. | Prof Bob Haining |
| Claire Warrior | Historical and Cultural Geography | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Nicholas Wilkinson | Society, Environment and Development | Conserving the Unknown: Decision-making for the Critically Endangered Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis in Vietnam. Funding: Darwin and Self-funded. Began April 2010. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Monica Wirz | Cross-cluster | Gendering executive selection practices. Funding: Egon Zhender Scholarship. Began October 2010. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Sang-Ju Yu | Spatial transformation, dynamics of power and policy network in Chinese urban governance: a comparison of waterfront regeneration in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kaohsiung. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust. Began October 2012. | Prof Ash Amin | |
| Dagmar Zadrazilova | Historical and Cultural Geography | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Philip Howell |
| Sofia Zaragocin | Two sides to a gendered borders (Ecuador - Colombia). Funding: SENESCYT -Ecuadorian Govt. Began October 2012. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
| Zheng Zhang | Networks of urban exclusion? The economic geography and political ecology of Chinese 'Ghost Town' creation in Ordos. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2012. | Dr Mia Gray |
Recently completed
| Name | Cluster | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
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| Heather Bedi | Society, Environment and Development | Social Movements and Forestry Governance in India: Success and failures. Funding: Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Peter Evans | Society, Environment and Development | Transformations of Inuit resistance and identity in Northern Labrador, 1959-2005. Funding: Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| 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. | Dr Emma Mawdsley, Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Karolina Leszczynska (Malinowska) | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Pleistocene glacigenic deposits in Essex, England. Funding: CT and Self-funded. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Jay Levy | Historical and Cultural Geography | The impacts of Swedish sex work legislation - an applicable model?. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Philip Howell |
| 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. | Prof Bill Adams |
| 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. | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Paul van der Vegt | Glaciology and Quaternary Science | Glacial systems sedimentation and tunnel valleys. Funding: Delft University. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
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