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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 Aamir | Negotiating gendered space: Exploring forces that influence the construction of labour markets in Pakistan. Funding: Cambs Trusts. Began January 2015. | Dr Mia Gray |
| Gregory Akall | Adapting to Drought and Building Resilience: Irrigation Development in Kenya (1960-2013). Funding: Self-funded. Began January 2013. | Dr Liz Watson |
| 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 Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Albert Arhin | Translating Global Climate Change Policy: The Case of REDD+ in Ghana. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began October 2012. | Dr Liz Watson |
| Masaō Ashtine | Investing with foresight: Regional climate modelling for the wind energy sectors of the UK and Caribbean. Began October 2013. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Michael Herzog |
| Eleanor Bailey | The Weaponisation of Risk: Army 2020, Governmentality, and Power. 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 |
| 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 |
| Libby Blanchard | The Political Economy of Reducing Emissions. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Began October 2013. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Adam Bobbette | Mediums, Controversy, Knowledge: Living on a Volcano. Funding: Cambs Trusts. Began October 2014. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Edward-John Bottomley | The spatial dispersion of poor whites in Johannesburg (1885-1939). Funding: Commonwealth Scholarship. Began October 2013. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Philip Howell |
| 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 |
| Jennifer Brown | Scaling up: using remote-sensing methods to estimate regional penguin population trajectories in a changing environment. Funding: NERC - BAS. Began October 2013. | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Josephine Chambers | Investigating the impacts of market-based agricultural interventions for biodiversity conservation. Funding: Marshall Scholarship. Began October 2013. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
| Han Cheng | Politics of knowledge construction in China's international development cooperation. Funding: CSC Cambridge Intern. Sch. Began January 2017. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Thomas Chudley | Tracking water under the Greenland Ice Sheet with UAVs. Funding: NERC. Began October 2016. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Wai Yin Chung | The Region a a nexus of untraded interdependencies, or regions as nexuses of untraded interdependencies: a network approach to understanding intra-firm relations in the context of modern China. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2012. | Dr Mia Gray |
| Wei-Yun Chung | The public sector gender landscape in Taiwan: An exploration of gender relations in the Taiwanese public sector workplace. Funding: Taiwan, Ministry of Education. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Mia Gray |
| 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. | Dr Gareth Rees and Peter Fretwell |
| Ragnhild Dale | Local content or dreams at sea? The performance of resource management in Sápmi and the Norwegian North. Funding: GATES. Began January 2014. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Peter Damerell | Coexisting with large carnivores: understanding how perceptions of risk and vulnerability pertain to rewilding in Europe. Began January 2014. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Leif Denby | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Michael Herzog |
| Annalena Di Giovanni | Street View: Chronicles of Coexistence In The Age of HyperIstanbul. Funding: CHESS/St John's College. Began October 2013. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Nathaniel Douglass | Dynamic Evacuation Planning: The Impact of Allocation on Evacuees. Began October 2013. | Dr Mike Bithell |
| Annemarie Eckes | Improving our understanding of the role of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics in the global carbon cycle. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Dr Andrew Friend and Prof Ulf Büntgen |
| 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). Began October 2012. | Prof Ash Amin |
| Jan (Laurens) Geffert | Improving species distribution models for commercially important marine species on a global scale. Funding: Nippon Foundation Nereus Fellowship. Began October 2012. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Sebastian Gibson | The Pleistocene History of the Birmingham District. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2011. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Annette Green | A political ecology of conservation and development corridors in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2016. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
| 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. Began October 2013. | Dr Mike Bithell |
| 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. | Dr Gareth Rees |
| Jonathan Hanson | Snowleopards and sustainability: participatory conservation and development in the annapurna region of Nepal. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2012. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Anika Nasra Haque | Climate change adaptation to flooding in the low income urban settlements of the Least Developed Countries: A case of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Funding: Schlumberger Foundation. Began October 2013. | Dr Mike Bithell and Prof Keith Richards |
| Jonathan Harris | The politics of citizenship and indigenous positioning in the Amazigh diaspora. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2014. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Sebastian Haug | Investigating liminality: Turkey and Mexico in global development. Funding: Vice-Chancellor’s Award and ESRC. Began October 2015. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Victoria Herrmann | Art, Technology, and Political Agency in Arctic Governance and Development: an analysis from Bipolar competition to International co-operation. Funding: GATES. Began October 2014. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Thomas Jackson | Paradiplomacy in the Russian Federation: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective. Funding: ESRC-College matched. Began October 2016. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Katy Jeary | Land sparing and its impact on local forest biodiversity, local land users and their food security. Funding: CHESS. Began October 2013. | Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Ritika Kapur | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Tania Kossberg | Mental Health and Suicide in Siberia. Funding: ESRC - EU fees only and DRS. Began October 2008. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Conrad Koziol | The impact of surface melt on ice acceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Began October 2013. | Dr Neil Arnold |
| 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. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| Marta Lang | Influencing industrial facility compliance: provincial environment agency practices in Vietnam. Funding: CIS. Began April 2011. | Prof Keith Richards |
| James Lester | Emerging disease transmission in Western Uganda. Funding: ESRC-NIH - Vet School. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Simon Frost and Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| Natalia Magnani | Materiality, Memory, and Identity in Finnish Lapland. Funding: GATES. Began October 2013. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Michael McCarthy | Rubble Matters! How can we map the thickness of debris on Himalayan Glaciers?. Funding: NERC. Student at BAS. Began October 2014. | Dr Hamish Pritchard and Dr Ian Willis |
| 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 |
| David McLaughlin | Mobile Holmes: Travel Writing, Mobility and Imagination in the Sherlock Holmes Stories. Funding: AHRC. Began October 2013. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Evan Miles | Regional coupled glacier and hydrologic modeling in the Himalaya: Lake formation and outburst hazards. Funding: Gates Scholarship. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Ian Willis |
| Jasper Montana | Expertise at the Interface: Insights from emerging international governance arrangements for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2013. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Bill Adams |
| Aleksandr Montelli | Investigating glacial history and sedimentary architecture of marine glaciated margins and their linkages to global climate. Funding: GATES. Began October 2015. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
| Della Murton | Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Vale of York and Humber gap. Funding: Self-funded. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Marcus Nyman | Foraging in the city’s margins: understanding urban nature through food gathering practices in London. Funding: ERC grant. Began October 2015. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
| 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. Began October 2013. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams and Prof Bill Adams |
| 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. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
| 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 |
| Ellen Potter | Mortality and morbidity by socioeconomic status in England, c. 1760 to c.1850. Funding: Welcome Trust. Began October 2015. | Dr Alice Reid and Dr Romola Davenport |
| 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. Began October 2015. | 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. Began October 2014. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
| Thomas Pryke | Nature Conservation: Living with Environmental Change on the Suffolk Coast, United Kingdom. Funding: ESRC/NERC. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Bill Adams and Prof Tom Spencer |
| 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 |
| Ciaran Robb | Using airborne and spaceborne remote sensing to investigate glacier geomorphic processes. Funding: CHESS. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Ian Willis and Dr Neil Arnold |
| Mathilda Rosengren | Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg. Funding: ECR grant. Began October 2015. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
| Thérèse Rudebeck | Power, Politics and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Water Governance. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2014. | Prof Susan Owens and Prof Keith Richards |
| Morgan Seag | Equal Opportunities on Ice: Gendered institutional change in 20th century Antarctic science. Funding: GATES. Began October 2016. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Rachel Seary | Mangroves, fisheries and community livelihoods. Funding: Nippon Nereus Fellowship. Began October 2015. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Anca Serban | Decoding the goverance of nature in the world's largest protected area network. Began October 2013. | Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Mike Bithell |
| Saba Sharma | The state and ethnic violence in Assam, India. Funding: GATES. Began October 2015. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Sipke Shaughnessy | The politics of conservation, identities and livelihoods in Mukogodo Forest, Kenya. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2015. | Dr Liz Watson |
| Hyesop Shin | Assessing health vulnerability to air pollution in megacities using agent-based modelling. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. | Dr Mike Bithell |
| Samuel Strong | The spatial politics of social abandonment. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2013. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr David Nally |
| Yu Su | Study on the system innovation of the ecological compensation of Basin Water resources. Funding: CSC Cam. Intern. Scholarship. Began October 2012. | Prof Keith Richards |
| Oliver Taherzadeh | Global hydrology and the resource nexus. Funding: Vice Chancellor's award. Began October 2016. | Dr Mike Bithell and Prof Keith Richards |
| Makoto Takahashi | Travelling controversy: a spatial theory of post-Fukushima radiation risk. Funding: ESRC. Began April 2015. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Toberg | Sea Ice pressure ridge structure. Began April 2013. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell and Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Joe Todd | Investigating flow sensitivity of Greenland outlet glaciers. Funding: NERC. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Rebecca Vignols | Understanding future changes in Northern Hemisphere snow. Funding: NERC - BAS award. Began October 2015. | 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. | 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. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Natasha Watts | 'Serious business to solve serious poverty': Finance and farming in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2014. | Dr Ivan Scales |
| Andrew Williamson | Remote sensing of the supraglacial hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Funding: NERC. Began October 2014. | 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 ????. Began October 2013. | 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. Began April 2015. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Tun Jan Young | Investigating sea ice fluxes through Arctic gateways. Began October 2013. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
| Sang-Ju Yu | Spatial transformation, dynamics of power and policy network in Chinese urban governance: a comparison of waterfront regeneration in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kaohsiung. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust. Began October 2012. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Ash Amin |
| Maximilien Zahnd | Athabascan Conceptions of Space and Place through a Socio-legal Lens. Funding: Self. Began October 2014. | Dr Michael Bravo |
| 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. Began October 2014. | Dr Mike Bithell |
Recently approved for the PhD
| Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Zhiyu Cao | Convection and its representation in global climate model. Funding: Self-funded. | Dr Michael Herzog |
| George Carothers | Neoliberalism under the radar IT parks as exceptional spaces in Kerala. Funding: CCT. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Girija Godbole | 'Selling land is the beginning of the end of us': understanding rural women's perspectives on the impact of increasing land sale in western Maharashtra, India. Funding: Gates Scholarship. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Mona Hamade | Women and Emiratisation in the UAE workforce. Funding: Cambridge OSI Middle East. | Dr Jude Browne |
| Regina Hansda | Alternative agriculture and gendered labour implications: the case of system of rice intensification (SRI) in Bihar, India. Funding: CCT and Self-funded. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
| Krista Kemppinen | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Friend |
| Andy Chia-An Ku | An integrated framework for evaluating the effectiveness of land-use based flood management srategy in urban areas - a case study in Taipei City, Taiwan. Funding: Ministry of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan. | Dr Mike Bithell and Prof Keith Richards |
| Ave Lauren | Global citizens and local aliens: the rise of new migrant identities and landscapes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Mia Gray |
| Laura Loyola Hernandez | Between catrinas and mestizas: gendered-ethnic performances of female politicians in Yucatecan Maya municipalities. Funding: Conacyt (Mexican Gov). | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
| Akanksha Marphatia | Predictors and consequences of variability in secondary educational attainment in rural India: a life course approach. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Alice Reid |
| Stefano Mazzilli | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Iris Möller and Prof Tom Spencer |
| Tim Tito Rademacher | Dynamics and patterns of vegetation and soil carbon turnover times at regional to global scales. Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Self-funded. | Dr Andrew Friend |
| Shino Shiode | Network-based micro-scale crime hotspot detection: developing and applying spatial, space-time and geo-surveillance methods for micro-scale crime analysis. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Bob Haining |
| Roman Sidortsov | Wrestling with polar bears: power relations in risk governance of oil and gas in Russia. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust, Self-funded. | Dr Piers Vitebsky |
| Shashi Singh | Political Economy of Land Acquisition and Resource Development in India: Case of Singrauli Region. Funding: British Council. | Dr Bhaskar Vira |
| Claire Warrior | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Michael Bravo |
| Dagmar Zadrazilova | Tempelhof Airport: Memory, Heritage and Cultural Politics in 20ᵗʰ Century Berlin. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Philip Howell |
| Sofia Zaragocin | Ethnic boundary-making and the gendered politics of belonging along the Ecuador - Colombia borderland. Funding: SENESCYT -Ecuadorian Govt. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.