- Review by the Director
- Graduate School Statistics
- Dissertation Titles 2001 – 2002
- PhD Degrees Awarded 2001 – 2002
Review by the Director
The 2001 – 2002 year saw the Graduate School maintain its position as one of the largest MPhil/PhD training programmes in Geography in the UK. 16 PhDs were awarded, as well as 25 MPhil degrees across the three programmes of Environment and Development, GIS and Remote Sensing and Quaternary Science. In addition, a new MPhil was established in Geographical Research, intended as a first year training and preparation for the PhD.
Our students continue to achieve excellent job placements across the academic world, industry, research and government agencies. The list of topics testifies to the breadth and depth of the Department’s research base.
The process of administering this wide range of activity would be impossible without the help of many people; 214 applications were processed in 2001 – 2002, and 37 students admitted. This burden falls heavily onto the Graduate School Office, staffed by Gae Matthews. She deserves considerable thanks for her efforts. The administration process also relies heavily on the directors of each MPhil and on the Degree Committee, to whom the Department owes a great debt.
The Human Geography Graduate Training Programme is now formally developed in conjunction with other Social Science Departments, whilst discussions to work more closely with Earth Sciences and other departments for physical geography continued. A major development has been the strong participation of geography in the Social Science Research Methods training course, developed for ESRC recognition purposes, and presently directed by Professor R J Bennett.
Over the year changes to the organisation of PhD student rooms were completed, with a new basement area which has proved very popular, and improved access to IT resources based in rooms organised into themes related to the department’s main research groups.
Professor R J Bennett
Director of the Graduate School
Graduate School Statistics
Applications | Offers | Admissions | Passes | Fails | |
PhD | 62 | 43 | 11 | ||
E & D | 116 | 31 | 16 | 15 * | None |
GIS & RS | 28 | 19 | 6 | 6 | None |
QS | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | None |
* one student awarded a certificate of diligent study.
Dissertation Titles 2001 – 2002
MPhil in Environment and Development
Name | Dissertation Title |
H J Cadman | In search of a grand narrative; is political ecology overly pessimistic in its assumption that a grand narrative for tropical deforestation cannot be found? |
T A Clements | Doi Tung Development Thailand |
J E De Silva | Constructed wetlands – a solution to water pollution problems in the developing world?: A Kenyan Case-study |
K M Garcia | Environmental Values, Attitudes and Practices in Trinidad and Tobago: Exploring Teenage Paradigms |
N A Gardner | Rhetoric and Reality: an exploratory study on community participation in Indonesian urban development programmes |
S Gelcich | Marine common property rights and artesanal fisheries in Los Vilos, Chile |
K L Hallewell | Ideas, Ideals and Friendship: A Case Study for Peru |
S Kimis | Rural Environment, Development and Women – The Role of Microcredit Finance |
Emmanuel Ofegba Niesiri | Tropical Biodiversity and Multinational Business in the UK |
C A O’Brien | The Role of NGOs in Environmental Governance: a study of the Caspian Sea Region |
M L O’Flaherty | Sweet Aftertastes: A Study of Fair Trading Cocoa Co-operatives in Ecuador |
P Satyal Pravat | Ik in Sustainable Management of Soils in Nepal |
U Janssen Sikuku | Role of the Community in the Kgakagadi Transboundary Natural Resource Management Areas, Botswana |
A G Storeygard | Water sanitation and health in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania |
M D Varilek | Cleaning the Air at a Discount: Designing Tradable emmissions permit systems for Implementation in the Developing World |
MPhil in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing
Name | Dissertation Title |
T A Blackmore | Spatial analysis of malaria transmission in Northern Nigeria |
F O Chikomo | Three dimensional modelling of urban areas using integrated LiDar and aerial photography |
H Gislason | One of Two possibles: 1. A landscape impact map or 2. A visual impact or ‘strategy’ map |
R Advincula Da Rocha | Seasonal vegetal cover changes evaluation on costal zone |
S Sudhoff | Environmental Studies, impacts of disasters, natural or human induced |
V Yadav | Height measurements from digital elevation models |
MPhil in Quaternary Science
Name | Dissertation Title |
Richard Trevor Betts | A palaeonvironmental study of Tednambury Common, Essex |
Heather Jane Cheshire | The Marine Isotope Stage 6/Substage %e transition in a core from the Iberian Margin |
Anna Nelson | Soft-sediment deformation beneath a surge-type glacier in Iceland and the implications for fast-flow Quaternary ice-sheets: a sedimentological approach |
John James Trehearn | A palaecological study of Thompson Common Norfolk |
PhD Degrees Awarded 2001 – 2002
Name | Dissertation Title |
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Amable, G | Multi-sensor land cover mapping with LANDSAT TM and ERS-1 SAR imagery |
Bain, A L | Generations and geographics of Toronto’s visual arts |
C Nettleton | From emergence to extinction. The Geography of Poliomyelitis |
Camilleri, M | Environmental Capacity for Malta Living within Limits in a Small Island |
Casebourne, J | Work Proversty and Welfare Reform: Welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets |
Dahiya, B | GIS in environment impact assessment and public participation |
De Lopez, T T | Stakeholder Management for Protected Areas – A Study of Ream National Park, Cambodia |
Faiez, S | Mapping Modernities in Trengannu: Nature, Islam and the Colonial State 1850-1930 |
Keylock, C | The interaction between flow structures and bedload sediment at parallel channel confluences |
Kostovicova, G | The politics of identity and space: Albanian language education in Kosovo, 1992-1990 |
Lambert, D R | The Master Subject: White Identities and the Slavery Controversy in Barbados, 1780-1834 |
Lawson, I | The Late Glacial and Holocene Environmental History of Greece |
Patel, S | Rethinking Sustainable Development: Power, Policy and Practice in South Durban |
Tiwary, M | Ecological Institutions: Joint Forest Management In Bihar (Jharkland) and West Bengal, India |
Westaway, R | Development of Remote Sensing Methods for Measurement of large, gravel-bed, braided rivers |
Wiart, P | Quaternary volcanism of North-east Afar |