Society, Environment and Development research cluster
Current and recent research students
The research cluster also includes an active group of PhD students:
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- Current students
- Recently completed
Current students
| Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Penelope Anthias | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Sarah Radcliffe |
| Heather Bedi | Social Movements and Forestry Governance in India: Success and failures. Funding: Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust. Began 2007. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Arshiya Bose | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| George Carothers | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Rohini Chaturvedi | Policy-making process associated with the national biodiversity support action plan (NBSAP) in India. Funding: ORS & Gates Scholarship. Began 2008. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Salwa Elhalawani | Local community Participation in Protected Area Management: Egypt as a Case Study. Funding: BP Cambridge Scholarship for Egypt. Began 2009. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Peter Evans | Transformations of Inuit resistance and identity in Northern Labrador, 1959-2005. Funding: Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Began 2005. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Lauren Evans | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bill Adams, Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Lindsay Galbraith | 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 |
| Girija Godbole | 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 |
| Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente | 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 |
| Regina Hansda | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Kathryn Humphries | The Political Ecology of Community-Based Forest and Wildlife Management in Iringa Region, Tanzania: An Institutional Perspective. Funding: ESRC. Began 2009. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Ritu Kanotra | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Ritika Kapur | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Sung-Mi Kim | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Riam-Sarah Knapp | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Tania Kossberg | Mental Health and Suicide in Siberia. Funding: ESRC - EU fees only and DRS. Began 2008. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Eszter Kovàcs | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Tim Bayliss-Smith |
| Terto Kreutzmann | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Evelyn Landerer | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Isayvani Naicker | 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 |
| James Palmer | 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 |
| Jackie Price | Inuit from Nunavut - understanding of the relationship between physical and conceptual spaces. Funding: CCT + Canadian sources. Began 2008. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Kavita Ramakrishnan | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| David Christian Rose | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Susan Owens |
| Elizabeth Rough | Nuclear narratives in the UK. Funding: ESRC. Began 2007. | Prof Susan Owens |
| Sushil Saigal | Trees outside forests: incentives and disincentives for tree planning by farmers. Funding: ORS & Gates Scholarship. Began 2006. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Judith Schleicher | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Andre Silveira | 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 | 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 | Watershed management and food security in Madagascar: the political ecology of ecosystem management. Funding: Self-funded + COS bursary. Began 2008. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Tatiana Thieme | Poverty, participation and entrepreneurshhip: Role for MNCs?. Funding: ESRC/CASE. Began 2008. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Yaffa Truelove | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
Recently completed
| Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Susannah Fisher | Cities and climate change in India: values, participation and knowledge within transnational environmental networks. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Richard Paley | Drivers of management performance in Cambodian protected areas. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Laur Vallikivi | Rhetoric and silence in Baptist conversion among Nenets reindeer herders. Funding: Gates Scholarship. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Judith Walcott | Discourse and development at the border: state projects and development interventions in Ecuador's northern Andes. Funding: Self/ORS/CT. | Dr Sarah Radcliffe |
Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.