
People in the Department: PhD students
Below is a list of PhD students in the Department, undertaking graduate study.
Current students
Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) | |
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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 |
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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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Michael Bravo |
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Katarzyna Baran | International Development Cooperation from below: recipients' perceptions of development cooperation in Haiti. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Emma Mawdsley |
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Jean-Philippe Baudouin | Winter rain, summer rain: adaptation, climate change, resilience and the Indus Civilisation (TwoRains). Funding: ERC (Archaeology). Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Michael Herzog |
Martin Baur | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Friend | |
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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 |
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Tanvi Bhatkal | Making cities work for women: gender and urban planning in India. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Charlotte Lemanski |
Simon Billett | UK soft power in India. Funding: FCO?. Began October 2018. | Dr Emma Mawdsley and ? | |
Prerna Bindra | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bhaskar Vira | |
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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 |
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Diane Borden | ‘Apis-temologies’: More-than-human Temporalities of Pollination and Economics. Began October 2019. | Dr Maan Barua |
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Karla Boxall | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Ian Willis |
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Helen Brooks | Can nature protect us from the coastal impacts of climate change. Funding: NERC. Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Iris Möller and Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Katherine Royse |
Emiliano Cabrera Rocha | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
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Tiffany Dang | Dispossession By Design. Funding: Newnham College. Began October 2018. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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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 |
Valerio Donfrancesco | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Xingran Gao | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Michael Herzog |
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Premdeep Gill | Studying antarctic seals by remote sensing. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. Began October 2018. | Dr Gareth Rees and Peter Fretwell |
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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 |
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Ellen Gordon | Street-level bureaucracy and inclusive governance in Ecuador. Funding: ESRC Knowledge Exchange Studentship. Began October 2018. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Annette Green | A political ecology of conservation and development corridors in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2016. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
Abbie Greig | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Philip Howell | |
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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 |
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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 |
Friederike Hartz | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | ||
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Maximilian 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 |
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Sarah Hughes | Development finance: private finance and innovative financing models in a ‘beyond aid’ era. Began October 2019. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
Elizabeth Isaac | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | ||
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Pei Jiang | Seeds of Struggle: A Political Ecology of Millet Growing in Aohan, China. Began October 2019. | Dr David Nally |
James Johnston | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Andrew Friend | |
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Dino Kadich | Young people at Europe’s margins: An intimate geopolitics of the future. Funding: GATES America. Began October 2019. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
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Edward Kiely | Mental Health in the ‘Holding Pattern’: The management of madness in austerity Britain. Funding: ESRC. Began October 2018. | Dr David Nally |
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James Kirkham | Reconstructing water flow beneath past ice sheets. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. Began October 2018. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
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Robert Law | Fast-flowing ice in Greenland: fibre opticbmeasurements and process based modelling. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. Began October 2018. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
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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 |
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Stephen Lezak | The new ‘Last Frontier’: Extraction and Adaptation in Rural Alaska. Began October 2019. | Dr Richard Powell |
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Rogelio Luque Lora | The New Conservation Debate: Exploring Conservationists' Values and Viewpoints. Funding: Cambridge European Scholarship (CCEIT). Began October 2018. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
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Debolina Majumder | Labour informality and the urban landscape in Delhi. Funding: Smuts International Scholarship (Cambridge Trust). Began October 2017. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
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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 |
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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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Christine Lane |
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Charlotte Milbank | Wild Foods, Hunger and Nutrition – harnessing knowledge for sustainable food security. Began October 2019. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
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Alice Millington | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
Priti Mohandas | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | ||
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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 |
Matipa Mukondiwa | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
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Fleur Nash | Understanding participation in and through conservation research and practice. Began October 2019. | Dr Chris Sandbrook |
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 | |
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Alice Oates | Instruments of scientific governance? Historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present. Began October 2019. | Dr Richard Powell |
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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 |
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Tami Okamoto | Territory and indigenous geographies in the Peruvian Amazon. Began October 2018. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Michael Overton | Governing Wildness: The more-than-human politics of rewilding landscapes. Began October 2019. | Dr Maan Barua |
Catriona Parpworth | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Francesca Moore | |
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Peili Pey | Urban green assemblage: a machinic approach to green cities. Funding: Self Funding. Began October 2018. | Prof Ash Amin |
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Ben Platt | London in the 'Anthropocene': morphogenetic landscapes and environmental power. Funding: AHRC (OOC) DTP Scholarship and Cambridge Trust. Began October 2019. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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Viviana Pupeza | Cecil Rhodes’ Cape to Cairo and Urban Transformations, 1890 - 1961. Began February 2020. | Dr Charlotte Lemanski |
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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 |
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Timothy Reilly | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Dr Gareth Rees |
Chloe Rixon | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Matthew Gandy | |
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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 |
Lily Marie Rubino | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Sarah Radcliffe | |
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Graham Sadler | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | |
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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 |
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Morgan Seag | Equal Opportunities on Ice: Gendered institutional change in 20th century Antarctic science. Funding: GATES. Began October 2016. | Dr Michael Bravo |
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Adam Searle | Celia's ghost: Liminality and authenticity in de/extinction. Funding: VC Award and King's College. Began October 2017. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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 | |
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Hyesop Shin | Assessing health vulnerability to air
pollution in megacities using agent-based modelling. Funding: Self. Began October 2016. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Mike Bithell |
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Hafsah Siddiqui | The Politics of Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Began October 2019. | Dr Charlotte Lemanski |
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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 |
Carolyn Smith | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | ||
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Laura Trajber Waisbich | Negotiating Accountability in South-South Cooperation for Development. Funding: CISS. Began October 2017. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Emma Mawdsley |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hannah Wynton | Explosive volcanism in the Kenyan Rift: a tephrostratigraphic perspective. Began October 2019. | Prof Christine Lane |
Recently approved for the PhD
Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) | |
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Misbah Khatana Aamir | Negotiating gendered space: Exploring forces that influence the construction of labour markets in Pakistan. Funding: Cambs Trusts. | Dr Mia Gray |
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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. | Dr Alice Reid |
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Peadar Brehony | Socio-ecological systems and drought in East Africa. Funding: Self. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
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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. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
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Han Cheng | Politics of knowledge construction in China's international development cooperation. Funding: CSC Cambridge Intern. Sch. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
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Thomas Chudley | Tracking water under the Greenland Ice Sheet with UAVs. Funding: NERC. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
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Samuel Cook | Will fast glaciers accelerate under a warming climate?. Funding: NERC. | Dr Poul Christoffersen |
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Hannah Cubaynes | Whales from space: studying ballen whales by satellite. Funding: MAVA Foundation. | Dr Gareth Rees and Peter Fretwell |
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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 |
Ben Gardiner | City-Level Resilience and the Role of Sectoral Structure. | Prof Ron Martin | |
Sebastian Gibson | The Pleistocene History of the Birmingham District. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Philip Gibbard | |
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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. | Dr Gareth Rees |
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Jonathan Harris | The politics of citizenship and indigenous positioning in the Amazigh diaspora. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Sebastian Haug | Investigating liminality: Turkey and Mexico in global development. Funding: Vice-Chancellor’s Award and ESRC. | Dr Emma Mawdsley |
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Thomas Jackson | Paradiplomacy in the Russian Federation: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective. Funding: ESRC-College matched. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
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 | |
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Judit Kuschnitzki | Negotiating Statehood: A Study of the Yemeni Diplomatic Service. Funding: ESRC and College Matched Funding Award with some CT's. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
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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 |
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Marcus Nyman | Plants, food and the repurposing of urban nature: the geographies of foraging and landscape in London. Funding: ERC grant. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams | |
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James Pollard | Temporal and spatial patterns of shoreline change and exposure of coastal communities and ecosystems to future flood risks. Funding: NERC DREAM DTC. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Iris Möller |
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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 |
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Simon Price | Geology and geotechnical properties of Quaternary sediments in the English South Midlands. Funding: EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship. | Prof Philip Gibbard |
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Nida Rehman | Urban Vectors: The Politics and Practices of Public Health in Lahore. Funding: Rethinking Urban Nature ERC grant. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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Rachel Seary | Mangroves, fisheries and community livelihoods. Funding: Nippon Nereus Fellowship. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell |
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Saba Sharma | The state and ethnic violence in Assam, India. Funding: GATES. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
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Sipke Shaughnessy | The politics of conservation, identities and livelihoods in Mukogodo Forest, Kenya. Funding: ESRC. | Dr Liz Watson |
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Oliver Taherzadeh | Global hydrology and the resource nexus. Funding: Vice Chancellor's award. | Dr Mike Bithell and Prof Keith Richards |
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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. | Dr Alex Jeffrey |
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Praveen Teleti | Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate change reconstructed from historical records. Funding: Nehru Trust and Christ's College Bursary. | Dr Gareth Rees and Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
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Rebecca Vignols | Understanding future changes in Northern Hemisphere snow. Funding: NERC - BAS award. | Dr Gareth Rees and Dr Gareth Marshall |
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Sibylla Warrington Brown | Intersectional economic inequalities under plurinational agendas: indigenous women's work and citizenship in post-neoliberal Bolivia. Funding: ESRC +3. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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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 |
Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.