Below is a list of PhD students in the Department, undertaking postgraduate study.
Current students
Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) | |
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Thomas Addoah | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Rachael Garrett | |
Konstantinos Alexopoulos | Quantifying the hydrology of the Greek alpine zone. | Prof Ian Willis | |
Matthew Allen | End-to-End Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches to Crown Dieback Monitoring. Funding: AI4ER CDT. | Dr Emily Lines | |
Saba Aslam | Everyday forms of governance and claims-making for water infrastructures in Karachi city’s off-grid sites. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski | |
Junaid Babar | Ecological Crisis, Neo-colonialism and Corporate ‘Sustainable Development’ Strategy in Pakistan: An Ethnographic Study of Kabirwala (Punjab) and Tharparkur (Sindh). | Dr Ayesha Siddiqi | |
Martin Baur | Leveraging remote sensing-based information on plant water status for ecosystem models. Funding: Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. | Prof Andrew Friend | |
Tatiana Bebchuk | Using subfossil yew wood from South-eastern England to reconstruct mid-Holocene environmental changes. Funding: Hill Foundation Scholarship. | Prof Ulf Büntgen and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Corinne Benedek | Using Sentinel-1 SAR data to map the fate of meltwater in the percolation zone. Funding: CISS award. | Prof Ian Willis | |
Prerna Bindra | The aftermath: the human implications of conservation related relocations; and the institutions that shape them. Funding: Benefactor's Scholarship Award, St. John's College. | Prof Bhaskar Vira | |
Diane Borden | ‘Apis-temologies’: More-than-human Temporalities of Pollination and Economics. Funding: Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Philip Howell | |
Karla Boxall | Investigating annual and seasonal velocity variations of George VI Ice Shelf and its contributing glaciers. Funding: C-CLEAR NERC DTP. | Prof Ian Willis and Dr Frazer Christie and Prof Neil Arnold | |
Joyce Brandão | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Rachael Garrett | |
Kate Brockie | The characteristics, opportunities and aspirations of young women not in employment, education or training (NEET) in Bangladesh. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Bhaskar Vira and Dr Anna Barford | |
Emily Bugden | Rights-based conservation: an alternative pathway for institutional climate action. | Prof Bhaskar Vira | |
Thomas Bunting | Developing Tools and methods for Agricultural Biodiversity Finance. | Prof Rachael Garrett | |
Emiliano Cabrera Rocha | Genomic Utopia in the Jungle: Indigenous Knowledge, Instruments, and Infrastructure in the Remaking of the Amazon. Funding: Gates Cambridge. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
Enrique Cadenas | Justice 2.0: exploring the experience of justice in the digital age. A comparative analysis of the UK, Brazil and Argentina. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Jack Campbell | Gas ash-particle separation and the role of particle aggregation in volcanic plumes. | Prof Michael Herzog | |
Emilie Canova | The Arctic and EUrope: two overlapping geopolitical regions . Funding: Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. | Prof Richard Powell | |
Natalie Carter | Narrating gendered green violence: a critical ethnography of women living adjacent to protected areas in northern Uganda. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Sizhe Chen | Machine Learning for past climate reconstruction: Identifying AMOC variations using proxyclimate fingerprints . | Dr Francesco Muschitiello | |
Amandine Debus | Using high-resolution Earth observation and socio-economic data to improve land-use classification and deforestation prediction in sub-Saharan Africa. Funding: NERC DTP (C-CLEAR). | Dr Emily Lines and Emilie Beauchamp | |
Yuqiao Deng | Tephra connections between environmental change and human prehistory in Ethiopia. | Prof Christine Lane and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Emma Diduch | The Demography of Derbyshire: Event History Analysis of Women's Labor Force. Participation and Family Formation Patterns in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries. | Prof Alice Reid | |
Valerio Donfrancesco | The political ecology of coexistence between people and large carnivores. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Nathaniel Douglass | Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Mike Bithell | |
Simone Eringfeld | Voices from the Silent Continent: A sonic genealogy of Antarctic futures amidst a climate (of) crisis. | Prof Michael Bravo | |
Bronte Evans Rayward | Animal Atmospheres and Scientific Practice on Bird Island. Funding: AHRC OOC DTP. | Prof Richard Powell | |
Troy Fielder | Natural Burial in the Anthropocene: Emergent Forms of Nature and Conservation. | Prof David Nally | |
Rebecca Foster | Energy justice and the transition to low carbon energy in Malawi. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski | |
Premdeep Gill | Studying antarctic seals by remote sensing. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof Gareth Rees and Peter Fretwell | |
Lucy Goodman | Large scale water-management infrastructure in Central and South Asia - to what extent have policies been based on flawed or incomplete economic analysis driven environmental. Funding: ESRC DTP. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Bhaskar Vira | |
Ciara Greaves | Climate and Societal Impacts of Icelandic Volcanism. Funding: NERC DTP (C-CLEAR). | Prof Clive Oppenheimer and Prof Andrew Friend | |
Abbie Greig | Regulating ‘The Good Patient’: Organ Transplantation and the Regulation of the (Dis)embodied Self. Funding: Emmanuel College. | Prof Philip Howell | |
Madeleine Hahne | Building Zion in the Anthropocene The Complex Ways Religion and Geography Inform Climate Belief. Funding: Gates Cambridge. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Friederike Hartz | Making the future possible? The IPCC, its philosophy and responsibilities in climate science and policy. Funding: OOC AHRC DTP and Pembroke College. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Mark Hehlen | Crack & bang: Shear margin evolution on Thwaites, Glacier, Antarctica. | Prof Poul Christoffersen | |
Maria Hernandez De La Pena | The dynamics of human/nonhuman relationships in rural-urban migrations from the Oaxacan Sierra of Mexico to Los Angeles, California. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Coco Huggins | A New Poor Law Politics? Exploring a Dickensian Discourse of UK Austerity from 2010 to 2020. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Mia Gray | |
Elizabeth Isaac | Subsistence crises and the spread of plague across Eurasia and The Mediterranean Littoral between 1850-1960. Funding: Self-funding. | Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Pei Jiang | Seeds of Struggle: A Political Ecology of Millet Growing in Aohan, China. Funding: Self-funding. | Prof David Nally | |
James Johnston | Conserving a Safe Operating Space for Terrestrial Ecosystem Functioning via Integration of Plant- and Animal-based Ecologies and Models. Funding: DAERA Postgraduate Studentship. | Prof Andrew Friend | |
Chloe King | Communities and Nature First: The Regenerative Tourism Future of the Galápagos. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Maria-Prisca Kouakou Keessy | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Rachael Garrett | |
Ellen Kujawa | Identifying data gaps and understanding policy in transboundary natural hazard management. Funding: Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Amy Donovan | |
David Lawless | Uncovering paleoclimate change in the Great Lakes using old-growth cedars and cave speleothems from the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula, Canada. | Prof Christine Lane | |
Alice Lawrence | Power, place, and transformation. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Kofi Lee-Berman | Bright Clouds Shade Half the Pond: Assessing the geopolitical significance of regional geoengineering over the Great Barrier Reef. Funding: Dr Herchel-Smith Scholarship, Williams College, USA. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Stephen Lezak | The new ‘Last Frontier’: Extraction and Adaptation in Rural Alaska. Funding: Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Richard Powell | |
Debolina Majumder | Labour informality and the urban landscape in Delhi. Funding: Smuts International Scholarship (Cambridge Trust). PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
- Marwa | Moving Across Scales: Negotiating Urban Resilience in Jakarta's Climate Adaptation Governance. | Prof Emma Mawdsley | |
Elspeth Mathau | Creating food in fragile Landscapes: impacts of environmental and climate change on biodiversity conservation, local food systems, and biocultural adaption in subarctic Canada. | Prof David Nally | |
Noor Mazhar | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | ||
Alice Millington | ‘Amended Animation’: Engaging with the ‘More than human’ Topographies of Tibetan-Himalayan belief systems as a platform to approach climate change in the Himalayas. Funding: ESRC DTP IS. | Prof Bhaskar Vira | |
Priti Mohandas | The Politics of Power: Understanding “transformation” through gender, energy and domestic space in Transitional Housing in Cape Town, South Africa. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski | |
Grace Mueller | Theorising Back the Market for Labour: A Co-Produced Socio-Spatial Analysis from Nepal. Funding: ESRC DTP and Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Bhaskar Vira and Dr Anna Barford | |
Matipa Mukondiwa | The Pursuit of Knowledge: coloniality and decoloniality in Zimbabwean Secondary Schools. Funding: Cambridge-Africa Trust. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
Joshua Nicholas | Preparing for natural hazard disasters during a climate crisis: the influence of culture on people’s interaction with multi-hazard risk on the Commonwealth of Dominica. | Prof Amy Donovan and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Charles Norman | Developing a multi-millennial tree-ring record for the Taurus Mountains to contextualise the interplay between climate, civilisation, and religion in the Near East. | Prof Ulf Büntgen and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Alice Oates | Instruments of scientific governance? Historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present. Funding: AHRC CDA. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Richard Powell | |
Tami Okamoto | Territory and indigenous geographies in the Peruvian Amazon. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
Audrey Palosse | Advancing beyond the treeline: new ways of understanding Alpine vegetation dynamics in the Anthropocene. | Prof Ulf Büntgen | |
Jinheum Park | Long-range impacts of the Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) eruption, 74,000 years ago. Funding: NERC DTP (C-CLEAR) and Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Christine Lane and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Rachael Parker Allen | Identifying Ecocide: expanding the legal geographies of the Chevron case in Ecuador. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Catriona Parpworth | Brexit as rupture or just more of the same?: women’s everyday lives within and beyond the ‘lost decade’. Funding: ESRC DTP. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Samira Patel | The Rise of a Technoscientific Third Pole: Climate Science, Data, and Culture in the Himalayan Cryosphere. | Prof Michael Bravo | |
Katie Peters | How has the legacy of the Nepalese 1996-2006 People's War and transition to a federalist state shaped contemporary disaster risk governance arrangements?. | Dr Ayesha Siddiqi | |
Nicholas Pritchard | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Philip Howell | |
Viviana Pupeza | Cecil Rhodes’ Cape to Cairo and Urban Transformations, 1890 - 1961. Funding: German Academic Scholarship Foundation. | Dr Graham Denyer Willis and Dr Sneha Krishnan | |
Nazifa Rafa | Connecting the disconnect between the cultural framing of disaster resilience by refugee communities and the disaster risk reduction strategies implemented by the host state: A case study of the Rohingya refugee settlement in Bhasan Char, Bangladesh. | Dr Ayesha Siddiqi | |
Sarah Rafferty | Infant and early childhood mortality decline in London, 1870-1929: a spatial and temporal analysis of its patterns, inequalities and policy impacts. Funding: AHRC. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Alice Reid | |
Annisa Meutia Ratri | Greying in the Coast: Understanding the Intersection of Gender Inequality and Ageing in Fishing Communities. | Prof Alice Reid | |
Cecilia Reed | No Man's Land: Volcanic Terrain, Vulnerability and Imaginative Embodiment. | Prof Amy Donovan and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Rosie Rice | Un infierno viviente: changing community risk perception, vulnerability, and preparedness in the wake of the 2021 Volcan de Tajogaite eruption, La Palma (Canary Islands). | Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Chloe Rixon | Memory, Cinema and Polish Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust. Funding: OOC AHRC DTP. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Matthew Gandy | |
Lily Marie Rubino | Universal Access? Exploring everyday experiences of urban water insecurity in Newburgh, NY. Funding: Gates Cambridge. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
Graham Sadler | Remote monitoring of Arctic pollution from oil spills. Funding: Self-funding. | Prof Gareth Rees | |
Mushtari Saidikova | Health effects of atmospheric aerosols from urban and volcanically-influenced environments. Funding: University of Central Asia Cambridge Scholarship. | Dr Anja Schmidt and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Hafsah Siddiqui | The Politics of Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Charlotte Lemanski | |
John Slattery | Abrupt sea ice loss in the Arctic: Tipping points in warm and cold climates. | Dr Francesco Muschitiello | |
Abigail Smith | Bringing law to its senses: waste, olfactory politics and the search for justice in New York City's 'overburdened' communities. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Owain Smith | A case study of Antillanca, Chile - Assessing risks posed by volcanoes with no historical eruptions. | Prof Amy Donovan and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Carolyn Smith | Volcanic Imaginaries: Between Indigeneity and Risk Across the Chile-Argentina Border. Funding: ERC IMAGINE. | Prof Amy Donovan and Dr Alexander Cullen | |
Catherine Tan | Hacking the limits of the earth: A critical cartography of techno-utopias at sea, in space, and on the virtual world. | Prof Alex Jeffrey and Prof Matthew Gandy | |
Ambika Tandon | Migration and feminisation in southern digital economies. | Prof Mia Gray | |
Ilanah Taves | Variations in Responses to Newly Situated Wildlife Among Disparate Cultural Groups in Urban Spaces. Funding: Self-funded. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Philip Howell | |
Lucy Thompson | Stepping in Time and Space with Circum-Atlantic Performance: A Cultural and Historical Geography of Tap Dance. Funding: Internal Graduate Studentship, Trinity College. | Prof Philip Howell | |
Benjamin Thurlow | From ‘zero-tolerance’ to ‘living with the virus’: Geographies of containment in the elite political discourse of COVID-19 in New Zealand. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Alex Jeffrey and Prof Amy Donovan | |
Ainsley Trahan | Eurasian Infrastructures of Seismic Importance: Transboundary Earthquake Risk Management in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. | Prof Amy Donovan | |
Albert Van Wijngaarden | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Michael Bravo | |
Richard Waters | Anticipating the incalculable: the politics of urban climate migration models. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Joanna Watterson | Infrastructural entrepreneurship in the off-grid city: energy access and provision in Cape Town and Johannesburg’s post-apartheid townships. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski and Prof Jaideep Prabhu | |
Jon White | Just in Time: Exploring experiences of 'time acceleration' in male UK gig economy workers. | Prof Mia Gray | |
Fleur Winn | Understanding participation in and through conservation research and practice. Funding: ESRC DTP KeS. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Deborah Wood | "To Those Who Knew Him Best Because They Loved Him Most" : The Role of Grief and Family Networks in Preserving Exploration Histories. | Prof Michael Bravo | |
Mia Wroe | Dangerous waters: investigating the distribution and social impacts of volcanic metal and volatile pollution in the East African Rift. | Prof Amy Donovan | |
Hannah Wynton | Explosive volcanism in the Kenyan Rift: a tephrostratigraphic perspective. Funding: NERC DTP. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Christine Lane and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Mingchun Xu | China’s participation and evolution in South-South Cooperation — A study on China’s emerging development finance. | Prof Emma Mawdsley | |
Naï Zakharia | Gender and histories of Arctic field science, 1900-1950. Funding: OOC AHRC DTP and Cambridge European & Newnham College Scholarship. | Prof Richard Powell | |
Tamara Zambiasi | Brazil in the global contra-flow: the privatisation of basic sanitation as an instrument for universalizing access to water. | Prof Emma Mawdsley and Pedro Loureiro | |
Marie Zedler | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
Jure Zgubic | CE317: Improving parametrizations for convection in climate models. | Prof Michael Herzog | |
Peisong Zheng | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Matt Osman |
Recently approved for the PhD
Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) | |
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Katarzyna Baran | International Development Cooperation from below: recipients' perceptions of development cooperation in Haiti. Funding: Self. | Prof Emma Mawdsley | |
Simon Billett | UK soft power in India. Funding: FCO?. | Prof Emma Mawdsley and Prof Tim Wilkinson | |
Clare Elizabeth Bissell | The Political Ecology of Trees and Birds in Ghana: People, power and perspectives driving landscape change in Kwahu East. Funding: ESRC - RSPB. | Prof Bill Adams and Juliet Vickery | |
David Durand-Delacre | The making of the 'climate migrant': an analysis of a circulating label in France and the Sahel. Funding: Cambridge European Scholarship. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Melissa Fielding | The Space in Between: Everyday Life and Activism in Women’s Experiences of Social Housing in Contemporary Britain. Funding: VC Award and King's College. | Prof Mia Gray | |
Xingran Gao | Examining the Influence of Aerosols from Air Pollution on Current and Projected Temperature Trends in the Urban Area of Chongqing, China. Funding: Self Funding. | Prof Michael Herzog | |
Ellen Gordon | Street-level bureaucracy and inclusive governance in Ecuador. Funding: ESRC Knowledge Exchange Studentship. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
Anna Guasco | Narrating Cetacean Conservation: Gray Whale Migration, Histories, and Justice on the North American Pacific Coast. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. | Prof Philip Howell | |
Maria Hagan | Policing presence: the struggle for informal spaces of life for exiles in France in the shadow of an institutional alternative. Funding: VC Award and Wolfson College Scholarship and Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship. | Prof Ash Amin | |
Maximilian Hepach | The climatic: A phenomenological approach to climate and its changes. Funding: AHRC and Cambridge European Scholarship - Cambridge Trust CCEIT. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Sarah Hughes | Development finance: private finance and innovative financing models in a ‘beyond aid’ era. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Emma Mawdsley | |
Dino Kadich | Young people at Europe’s margins: An intimate geopolitics of the future. Funding: GATES America. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Edward Kiely | Mental Health in the ‘Holding Pattern’: The management of madness in austerity Britain. Funding: ESRC. | Prof David Nally | |
James Kirkham | Reconstructing water flow beneath past ice sheets. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell | |
Robert Law | Fast-flowing ice in Greenland: fibre opticbmeasurements and process based modelling. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof Poul Christoffersen | |
Anna Lawrence | Botanical Biopolitics: The Socio-Political Lives of Flowers in Victorian Britain. Funding: AHRC Isaac Newton Trust Studentship (Cambridge AHRC DTP and AHRC). | Prof Philip Howell | |
Rogelio Luque Lora | The New Conservation Debate: Exploring Conservationists' Values and Viewpoints. Funding: Cambridge European Scholarship (CCEIT). | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Joseph Alejandro Martinez Salinas | Risk, Uncertainty and Rural Development in Colombia: Labour and Capital in Times of Food Security. Funding: COLCIENCIAS. | Prof David Nally | |
Charlotte Milbank | Wild Foods, Hunger and Nutrition – harnessing knowledge for sustainable food security. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Bhaskar Vira | |
Papa Momodou Jack | The Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Scheme: The role of ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status in explaining differential health outcomes in Ethiopia. Funding: GATES. | Prof Alice Reid | |
Alasdair Neilson | Embedding Green Capitalism: The Impacts of Biofuel Industries on Social Difference in Kenya's Great Rift Valley. Funding: ESRC matched with Pembroke. | Dr Ivan Scales | |
Noam Obermeister | Misaligned or mismanaged? Exploring the role of expectations and tacit negotiations in expert advice - the case of environmental science-policy in the UK. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Mike Hulme | |
Michael Overton | Governing Wildness: The more-than-human politics of rewilding landscapes. Funding: Self-funding. | Dr Maan Barua | |
Peili Pey | Urban green assemblage: a machinic approach to green cities. Funding: Self Funding. | Prof Ash Amin | |
Ben Platt | London in the 'Anthropocene': morphogenetic landscapes and environmental power. Funding: AHRC (OOC) DTP Scholarship and Cambridge Trust. | Prof Matthew Gandy | |
Timothy Reilly | Governance of the Arctic and the oil and gas industry. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Gareth Rees | |
Martin Rogers | Mind the gap: exploiting satellite technology for coastal climate change adaptation in the data-poor 'gap' of intertidal zones. Funding: NERC Dream CDT. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell | |
Udisha Saklani | Dams, Development and Diplomacy: Deconstructing Indian dam-building in the Himalayas. Funding: MAC Scholarship at Newnham College. | Prof Emma Mawdsley | |
Morgan Seag | Equal Opportunities on Ice: Gendered institutional change in 20th century Antarctic science. Funding: GATES. | Prof Michael Bravo | |
Olivia Shears | Building with Nature: the role of bio-physical linkages within coastal wetland restoration. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof Tom Spencer | |
Trishant Simlai | The political ecology of conservation militarisation in India: Social and political implications of using surveillance technologies for conservation. Funding: Various. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Jonathon Turnbull | A Radioactive Refuge: Caring for Contaminated Canids in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Bill Adams and Prof Matthew Gandy | |
Maximilien Zahnd | Athabascan Conceptions of Space and Place through a Socio-legal Lens. Funding: Self. | Prof Michael Bravo |
Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.