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Department of Geography

 

Annual Report 2002: Graduate school 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
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