People in the Department: PhD students
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Below is a list of PhD students in the Department, undertaking graduate study.
Current students
| Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Misbah Khatana Aamir | Negotiating gendered space: Exploring forces that influence the construction of labour markets in Pakistan. Funding: Cambs Trusts. Began January 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Mia Gray |
| Isabel Airas | The affective politics of political movements: structures of feeling, political resonance machines and hotspots. Funding: ESRC DTP. Began October 2017. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Henry Anderson-Elliott | To re-frame the conservation of polar bears in Svalbard, looking at the socio-cultural norms and values that structure the human relationships with the species. Funding: ESRC -College matched. Began October 2016. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Tina Andersson | Livelihoods, ecosystem services and conservation in a tropical CM-SES setting. Began October 2014. | Prof Tim Bayliss-Smith and Prof Bhaskar Vira |
| Eleanor Bailey | Janus: Transforming the British Army from War Machine to Civic Force. Funding: Self (part-time). Began October 2013. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Katarzyna Baran | International Development Cooperation from below: recipients' perceptions of development cooperation in Haiti. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Jean-Philippe Baudouin | Winter rain, summer rain: adaptation, climate change, resilience and the Indus Civilisation (TwoRains). Funding: ERC (Archaeology). Began October 2016. | Dr Michael Herzog |
| Corinne Benedek | Using Sentinel-1 SAR data to map the fate of meltwater in the percolation zone. Funding: CISS award. Began October 2015. | Dr Ian Willis |
| Tanvi Bhatkal | Making cities work for women: gender and urban planning in India. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Dr Charlotte Lemanski |
| Simon Billett | UK soft power in India. Funding: FCO?. Began October 2018. | Dr Emma Mawdsley and ? |
| 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. Began October 2016. | Prof Bill Adams and Juliet Vickery |
| Lander Bosch | On shape and being shaped: the relation between overweight and obesity in London's schoolchildren and the energy-expending characteristics of their built environment. Funding: ESRC DTP. Began October 2017. | Dr Alice Reid |
| Peadar Brehony | Socio-ecological systems and drought in East Africa. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Helen Brooks | Can nature protect us from the coastal impacts of climate change. Funding: NERC. Began October 2016. | Dr Iris Möller and Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Katherine Royse |
| Edward Bryan | "Let them come to Berlin": Critically Examining the Geopolitical Significance of John F. Kennedy's visit to West Berlin on 26 June 1963. Funding: Trinity Hall. Began October 2017. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Han Cheng | Politics of knowledge construction in China's international development cooperation. Funding: CSC Cambridge Intern. Sch. Began January 2017. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Chun Cheung Ching | Sustainability of Water Transfer Project in China, Case Study in South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Funding: Edwin S H Leong Hughes Hall Scholarships. Began January 2012. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Thomas Chudley | Tracking water under the Greenland Ice Sheet with UAVs. Funding: NERC. Began October 2016. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Samuel Cook | Will fast glaciers accelerate under a warming climate?. Funding: NERC. Began October 2016. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Hannah Cubaynes | Whales from space: studying ballen whales by satellite. Funding: MAVA Foundation. Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Gareth Rees and Peter Fretwell |
| Tiffany Dang | Dispossession By Design. Funding: Newnham College. Began October 2018. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
| Rebecca Dell | Melting, Ponding and Refreezing on Antacrtic Ice shelves. Funding: NERC. Began October 2017. | Dr Ian Willis and Dr Neil Arnold and Dr Alison Banwell |
| David Durand-Delacre | The making of the 'climate migrant': an analysis of a circulating label in France and the Sahel. Funding: Cambridge European Scholarship. Began October 2018. | Prof Mike Hulme |
| Annemarie Eckes-Shephard | Improving our understanding of the role of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics in the global carbon cycle. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Dr Andrew Friend |
| Frédérique Fardin | Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in mangrove forests and their fisheries. Funding: Nippon NERUS. Began October 2018. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell |
| 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. Began October 2018. | Dr Mia Gray |
| Xingran Gao | Future. Funding: Self Funding. Began October 2018. | Dr Michael Herzog |
| Premdeep Gill | Studying antarctic seals by remote sensing. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. Began October 2018. | Dr 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. Began October 2017. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
| Ellen Gordon | Street-level bureaucracy and inclusive governance in Ecuador. Funding: ESRC Knowledge Exchange Studentship. Began October 2018. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Annette Green | A political ecology of conservation and development corridors in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2016. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
| Anna Guasco | Narrating cetacean conservation: histories, justice, and narratives of gray whale migration along the North American Pacific coast. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Began October 2019. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Wenkai Guo | The location and dynamics of Arctic treeline and its relationship with circumarctic snow cover variability. Funding: Cambridge Trusts, Trinity Henry-Barlow Award, Self-funding. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Gareth Rees |
| 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. Began October 2018. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Emily Harbach | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Mia Gray |
| Sebastian Haug | Investigating liminality: Turkey and Mexico in global development. Funding: Vice-Chancellor’s Award and ESRC. Began October 2015. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Maximillian Hepach | Under the weather: towards a phenomenological genealogy of weather and climate. Funding: AHRC and Cambridge European Scholarship - Cambridge Trust CCEIT. Began October 2018. | Prof Mike Hulme |
| Thomas Jackson | Paradiplomacy in the Russian Federation: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective. Funding: ESRC-College matched. Began October 2016. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Dino Kadich | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Ritika Kapur | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Bhaskar Vira |
| Edward Kiely | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr David Nally |
| James Kirkham | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Judit Kuschnitzki | Negotiating Statehood: A Study of the Yemeni Diplomatic Service. Funding: ESRC and College Matched Funding Award with some CT's. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Robert Law | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr 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). Began October 2018. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Stephen Lezak | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Richard Powell |
| Rogelio Luque Lora | The New Conservation Debate: Exploring Conservationists' Values and Viewpoints. Funding: Cambridge European Scholarship (CCEIT). Began October 2018. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
| Debolina Majumder | Labour informality and the urban landscape in Delhi. Funding: Smuts International Scholarship (Cambridge Trust). Began October 2017. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Joseph Alejandro Martinez Salinas | Risk, Uncertainty and Rural Development in Colombia: Labour and Capital in Times of Food Security. Funding: COLCIENCIAS. Began October 2018. | Dr David Nally |
| Amy McGuire | The Quaternary climate of the eastern Mediterranean: insights into changes in climate and environment and their impact on human populations. Funding: Department. Began October 2016. | Prof Christine Lane |
| Charlotte Milbank | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | 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. Began October 2018. | Dr 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. Began October 2018. | Dr Ivan Scales |
| Marcus Nyman | Foraging in the city’s margins: understanding urban nature through food gathering practices in London. Funding: ERC grant. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Matthew Gandy |
| Alice Oates | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Richard Powell |
| 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. Began October 2018. | Prof Mike Hulme |
| Tami Okamoto | Territory and indigenous geographies in the Peruvian Amazon. Began October 2018. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Francisco Oliveira Filho | A new paradigm for the Brazilian Amazon: environmental law enforcement, land use dynamics and the rural environmental registry (CAR). Funding: Cambridge Trusts. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Peili Pey | Migrants and Sustainable Cities. Funding: Self Funding. Began October 2018. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Ben Platt | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Matthew Gandy |
| James Pollard | Temporal and spatial patterns of shoreline change and exposure of coastal communities and ecosystems to future flood risks. Funding: NERC DREAM DTC. Began October 2016. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Iris Möller |
| 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. Began October 2018. | Dr Alice Reid |
| Nida Rehman | Urban Vectors: The Politics and Practices of Public Health in Lahore. Funding: Rethinking Urban Nature ERC grant. Began October 2015. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
| Timothy Reilly | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Alix Reverdy | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Ian Willis and Dr Neil Arnold |
| 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. Began October 2018. | Dr Iris Möller |
| Mathilda Rosengren | Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg. Funding: ECR grant. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Matthew Gandy |
| Udisha Saklani | Dams, Development and Diplomacy: Deconstructing Indian dam-building in the Himalayas. Funding: MAC Scholarship at Newnham College. Began October 2018. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Morgan Seag | Equal Opportunities on Ice: Gendered institutional change in 20th century Antarctic science. Funding: GATES. Began October 2016. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Adam Searle | Celia's ghost: Liminality and authenticity in de/extinction. Funding: VC Award and King's College. Began October 2017. | Prof Bill Adams |
| Olivia Shears | Building with Nature: the role of bio-physical linkages within coastal wetland restoration. Funding: ESS DTP NERC . Began October 2018. | Dr Iris Möller |
| Hyesop Shin | Assessing health vulnerability to air pollution in megacities using agent-based modelling. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Dr Mike Bithell |
| Hafsah Siddiqui | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Charlotte Lemanski |
| Trishant Simlai | The political ecology of conservation militarisation in India: Social and political implications of using surveillance technologies for conservation. Funding: Various. Began October 2017. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
| Oliver Taherzadeh | Global hydrology and the resource nexus. Funding: Vice Chancellor's award. Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Mike Bithell and Prof Keith Richards |
| Makoto Takahashi | The Improvised Expert: examining how expert authority is claimed and contested in conditions of low public trust, with empirical reference to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. Funding: ESRC. Began April 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Ilanah Taves | Variations in Responses to Newly Situated Wildlife Among Disparate Cultural Groups in Urban Spaces. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2018. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Praveen Teleti | Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate change reconstructed from historical records. Funding: Nehru Trust and Christ's College Bursary. Began October 2016. | Dr Gareth Rees and Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Laura Trajber Waisbich | Negotiating Accountability in South-South Cooperation for Development. Funding: CISS. Began October 2017. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Jonathon Turnbull | A Radioactive Refuge: Caring for Contaminated Canids in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2018. | Prof Bill Adams and Prof Matthew Gandy |
| Rebecca Vignols | Understanding future changes in Northern Hemisphere snow. Funding: NERC - BAS award. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Gareth Rees and Dr Gareth Marshall |
| Yifu Wang | Identifying conservation solution in data-poor environments - the Yangtze finless porpoise as a conservation case study (an advertised project). Funding: Self funding. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Sibylla Warrington Brown | Intersectional economic inequalities under plurinational agendas: indigenous women's work and citizenship in post-neoliberal Bolivia. Funding: ESRC +3. Began October 2015. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Maximilien Zahnd | Athabascan Conceptions of Space and Place through a Socio-legal Lens. Funding: Self. Began October 2014. | Dr Michael Bravo |
Recently approved for the PhD
| Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Bobbette | Mediums, Controversy, Knowledge: Living on a Volcano. Funding: Cambs Trusts & SSHRC Doctoral Award. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Jennifer Brown | Scaling up: using remote-sensing methods to estimate regional penguin population trajectories in a changing environment. Funding: NERC - BAS. | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Ragnhild Dale | Local content or dreams at sea? The performance of resource management in Sápmi and the Norwegian North. Funding: GATES. | Dr Richard Powell and Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| 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). | Prof Ash Amin |
| Sebastian Gibson | The Pleistocene History of the Birmingham District. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Kinne Gueye | Assessing the impacts of reducing emissions from deforestation ad forest degradation (REDD+) on carbon stocks at a local scale in Mexico. Funding: Mexico Government Sch. | Dr Mike Bithell |
| Jonathan Hanson | Snowleopards and sustainability: participatory conservation and development in the annapurna region of Nepal. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Jonathan Harris | The politics of citizenship and indigenous positioning in the Amazigh diaspora. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Victoria Herrmann | Art, Technology, and Political Agency in Arctic Governance and Development: an analysis from Bipolar competition to International co-operation. Funding: GATES. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Katy Jeary | Land sparing and its impact on local forest biodiversity, local land users and their food security. Funding: CHESS. | Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Conrad Koziol | The impact of surface melt on ice acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet. | Dr Neil Arnold |
| Andy Wang-Chun Lai | Investigating the causes and effects of the 'new' Central Parcific El Nino. | Dr Michael Herzog |
| Natalia Magnani | Materiality, Memory, and Identity in Finnish Lapland. Funding: GATES. | Dr Richard Powell and Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Michael McCarthy | Rubble Matters! How can we map the thickness of debris on Himalayan Glaciers?. Funding: NERC. Student at BAS. | Dr Hamish Pritchard and Dr Ian Willis |
| David McLaughlin | Mobile Holmes: Travel Writing, Mobility and Imagination in the Sherlock Holmes Stories. Funding: AHRC. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Aleksandr Montelli | Investigating glacial history and sedimentary architecture of marine glaciated margins and their linkages to global climate. Funding: GATES. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Tobias Nyumba | Flagships or Battleships? Understanding "Hidden" Aspects of Human Elephant Interactions and their Impacts on Human Wellbeing in Trans Mara District, Kenya. Funding: Churchill/Sidney Sussex Southern African Cambridge Scholarship. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams and Prof Bill Adams |
| Emily Potter | Melting Himalayas: using a regional climate model to simulate the effect of future climate change in the 'Water Tower of Asia'. Funding: BAS NERC award. | Dr Ian Willis and Dr Andrew Orr |
| Simon Price | Geology and geotechnical properties of Quaternary sediments in the English South Midlands. Funding: EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Thérèse Rudebeck | Power, Politics and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Water Governance. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Susan Owens and Prof Keith Richards |
| Rachel Seary | Mangroves, fisheries and community livelihoods. Funding: Nippon Nereus Fellowship. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Anca Serban | Decoding the goverance of nature in the world's largest protected area network. | Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Saba Sharma | The state and ethnic violence in Assam, India. Funding: GATES. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
| Sipke Shaughnessy | The politics of conservation, identities and livelihoods in Mukogodo Forest, Kenya. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Liz Watson |
| Craig Stewart | Ocean processes and basal melting of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Funding: CCT and Rutherford Foundation (New Zealand). | Prof Julian Dowdeswell and Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Yu Su | Study on the system innovation of the ecological compensation of Basin Water resources. Funding: CSC Cam. Intern. Scholarship. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Natasha Watts | Investing for Impact: finance and farming in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Ivan Scales |
| Lana Whittaker | Food Sovereignty in India. | |
| Andrew Williamson | Remote sensing of the supraglacial hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Funding: NERC. | Dr Neil Arnold and Dr Ian Willis and Dr Alison Banwell |
| Matthew Wise | Processes and patterns of glacier-influenced sedimentation on Arctic and Antarctic continental margins. Funding: NERC. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Karen Wong-Pérez | Understanding the links between the Natural Environment and local perceptions of Poverty, Human Well-being and Environmental fairness in San Felipe, Yucatan, Mexico. Funding: CONACYT-Cambridge Trust. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
| Tun Jan Young | Investigating sea ice fluxes through Arctic gateways. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Chengxiang (Tony) Zhuge | Investigating the Potential Expansion and Impact of the Electric Vehicle Market with an Agent-based Integrated Framework: A Case Study of Beijing, China. | Dr Mike Bithell |
Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.