
Below is a list of PhD students in the Department, undertaking postgraduate study.
Current students
Name | Phd title and details | Supervisor(s) | |
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Thomas Addoah | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Rachael Garrett | |
Matthew Allen | End-to-End Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches to Crown Dieback Monitoring. Funding: AI4ER CDT. | Dr Emily Lines | |
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Martin Baur | Leveraging remote sensing-based information on plant water status for ecosystem models. Funding: Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. | Prof Andrew Friend |
Tatiana Bebchuk | Using subfossil yew wood from South-eastern England to reconstruct mid-Holocene environmental changes. Funding: Hill Foundation Scholarship. | Prof Ulf Büntgen and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
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Corinne Benedek | Using Sentinel-1 SAR data to map the fate of meltwater in the percolation zone. Funding: CISS award. | Prof Ian Willis |
Simon Billett | UK soft power in India. Funding: FCO?. | Prof Emma Mawdsley and Prof Tim Wilkinson | |
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Prerna Bindra | The aftermath: the human implications of conservation related relocations; and the institutions that shape them. Funding: Benefactor's Scholarship Award, St. John's College. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
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Diane Borden | ‘Apis-temologies’: More-than-human Temporalities of Pollination and Economics. Funding: Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Philip Howell |
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Karla Boxall | Investigating annual and seasonal velocity variations of George VI Ice Shelf and its contributing glaciers. Funding: C-CLEAR NERC DTP. | Prof Ian Willis and Dr Frazer Christie and Prof Neil Arnold |
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Joyce Brandão | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Rachael Garrett |
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Kate Brockie | The characteristics, opportunities and aspirations of young women not in employment, education or training (NEET) in Bangladesh. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Bhaskar Vira and Dr Anna Barford |
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Emiliano Cabrera Rocha | Genomic Utopia in the Jungle: Indigenous Knowledge, Instruments, and Infrastructure in the Remaking of the Amazon. Funding: Gates Cambridge. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Emilie Canova | The Arctic and EUrope: two overlapping geopolitical regions . Funding: Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. | Prof Richard Powell |
Sizhe Chen | Machine Learning for past climate reconstruction: Identifying AMOC variations using proxyclimate fingerprints . | Dr Francesco Muschitiello | |
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Tiffany Dang | Dispossession By Design. Funding: Newnham College. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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Amandine Debus | Using high-resolution Earth observation and socio-economic data to improve land-use classification and deforestation prediction in sub-Saharan Africa. Funding: NERC DTP (C-CLEAR). | Dr Emily Lines and Emilie Beauchamp |
Emma Diduch | The Demography of Derbyshire: Event History Analysis of Women's Labor Force. Participation and Family Formation Patterns in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries. | Prof Alice Reid | |
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Valerio Donfrancesco | The political ecology of coexistence between people and large carnivores. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Chris Sandbrook |
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Simone Eringfeld | Voices from the Silent Continent: A sonic genealogy of Antarctic futures amidst a climate (of) crisis. | Prof Michael Bravo |
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Bronte Evans Rayward | Animal Atmospheres and Scientific Practice on Bird Island. Funding: AHRC OOC DTP. | Prof Richard Powell |
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Frédérique Fardin | Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in mangrove forests and their fisheries. Funding: Nippon NERUS. | 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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Mia Gray |
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Xingran Gao | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Michael Herzog |
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Premdeep Gill | Studying antarctic seals by remote sensing. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof 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. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
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Ellen Gordon | Street-level bureaucracy and inclusive governance in Ecuador. Funding: ESRC Knowledge Exchange Studentship. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Ciara Greaves | Climate and Societal Impacts of Icelandic Volcanism. Funding: NERC DTP (C-CLEAR). | Prof Clive Oppenheimer and Prof Andrew Friend |
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Abbie Greig | Regulating ‘The Good Patient’: Organ Transplantation and the Regulation of the (Dis)embodied Self. Funding: Emmanuel College. | Prof 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. | Prof Philip Howell |
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Madeleine Hahne | Building Zion in the Anthropocene The Complex Ways Religion and Geography Inform Climate Belief. Funding: Gates Cambridge. | Prof Mike Hulme |
Mathilda Hancock | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Andrew Friend | |
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Friederike Hartz | Making the future possible? The IPCC, its philosophy and responsibilities in climate science and policy. Funding: OOC AHRC DTP and Pembroke College. | Prof Mike Hulme |
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Mark Hehlen | Crack & bang: Shear margin evolution on Thwaites, Glacier, Antarctica. | Prof Poul Christoffersen |
Maria Hernandez De La Pena | The dynamics of human/nonhuman relationships in rural-urban migrations from the Oaxacan Sierra of Mexico to Los Angeles, California. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
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Coco Huggins | A New Poor Law Politics? Exploring a Dickensian Discourse of UK Austerity from 2010 to 2020. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Mia Gray |
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Sarah Hughes | Development finance: private finance and innovative financing models in a ‘beyond aid’ era. Funding: ESRC DTP. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Emma Mawdsley |
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Elizabeth Isaac | Subsistence crises and the spread of plague across Eurasia and The Mediterranean Littoral between 1850-1960. Funding: Self-funding. | Prof Clive Oppenheimer |
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Pei Jiang | Seeds of Struggle: A Political Ecology of Millet Growing in Aohan, China. Funding: Self-funding. | Prof David Nally |
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James Johnston | Conserving a Safe Operating Space for Terrestrial Ecosystem Functioning via Integration of Plant- and Animal-based Ecologies and Models. Funding: DAERA Postgraduate Studentship. | Prof Andrew Friend |
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Dino Kadich | Young people at Europe’s margins: An intimate geopolitics of the future. Funding: GATES America. | Prof Alex Jeffrey |
Chloe King | Communities and Nature First: The Regenerative Tourism Future of the Galápagos. | Prof Chris Sandbrook | |
Maria-Prisca Kouakou Keessy | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Rachael Garrett | |
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Ellen Kujawa | Identifying data gaps and understanding policy in transboundary natural hazard management. Funding: Cambridge International Scholarship. | Dr Amy Donovan |
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Stephen Lezak | The new ‘Last Frontier’: Extraction and Adaptation in Rural Alaska. Funding: Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Richard Powell |
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Rogelio Luque Lora | The New Conservation Debate: Exploring Conservationists' Values and Viewpoints. Funding: Cambridge European Scholarship (CCEIT). PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Chris Sandbrook |
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Debolina Majumder | Labour informality and the urban landscape in Delhi. Funding: Smuts International Scholarship (Cambridge Trust). PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof 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. | Prof David Nally |
- Marwa | Moving Across Scales: Negotiating Urban Resilience in Jakarta's Climate Adaptation Governance. | Prof Emma Mawdsley | |
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Elspeth Mathau | Creating food in fragile Landscapes: impacts of environmental and climate change on biodiversity conservation, local food systems, and biocultural adaption in subarctic Canada. | Prof David Nally |
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Charlotte Milbank | Wild Foods, Hunger and Nutrition – harnessing knowledge for sustainable food security. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
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Alice Millington | ‘Amended Animation’: Engaging with the ‘More than human’ Topographies of Tibetan-Himalayan belief systems as a platform to approach climate change in the Himalayas. Funding: ESRC DTP IS. | Prof Bhaskar Vira |
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Elisabeth Mjaaland | Early-life effects on later-life health outcomes: Influenza, seasonality and feeding methods in 20th century Derbyshire. Funding: ESRC DTP (IS). | Prof Alice Reid |
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Priti Mohandas | The Politics of Power: Understanding “transformation” through gender, energy and domestic space in Transitional Housing in Cape Town, South Africa. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski |
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Grace Mueller | Theorising Back the Market for Labour: A Co-Produced Socio-Spatial Analysis from Nepal. Funding: ESRC DTP and Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Bhaskar Vira and Dr Anna Barford |
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Matipa Mukondiwa | The Pursuit of Knowledge: coloniality and decoloniality in Zimbabwean Secondary Schools. Funding: Cambridge-Africa Trust. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Fleur Nash | Understanding participation in and through conservation research and practice. Funding: ESRC DTP KeS. | Prof Chris Sandbrook |
Adam Noach | The forgotten forests: remote sensing and predictive modelling to understand the structure, function and future of wet woodlands. | Dr Emily Lines | |
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Alice Oates | Instruments of scientific governance? Historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present. Funding: AHRC CDA. | Prof Richard Powell |
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Tami Okamoto | Territory and indigenous geographies in the Peruvian Amazon. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Michael Overton | Governing Wildness: The more-than-human politics of rewilding landscapes. Funding: Self-funding. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Maan Barua |
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Jinheum Park | Long-range impacts of the Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) eruption, 74,000 years ago. Funding: NERC DTP (C-CLEAR) and Cambridge International Scholarship. | Prof Christine Lane and Prof Clive Oppenheimer |
Rachael Parker Allen | Identifying Ecocide: expanding the legal geographies of the Chevron case in Ecuador. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
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Catriona Parpworth | Brexit as rupture or just more of the same?: women’s everyday lives within and beyond the ‘lost decade’. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Alex Jeffrey |
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Samira Patel | The Rise of a Technoscientific Third Pole: Climate Science, Data, and Culture in the Himalayan Cryosphere. | Prof Michael Bravo |
Katie Peters | How has the legacy of the Nepalese 1996-2006 People's War and transition to a federalist state shaped contemporary disaster risk governance arrangements? . | Dr Ayesha Siddiqi | |
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Peili Pey | Urban green assemblage: a machinic approach to green cities. Funding: Self Funding. | 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. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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Nicholas Pritchard | (Thesis title will be available in due course.) | Prof Philip Howell |
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Viviana Pupeza | Cecil Rhodes’ Cape to Cairo and Urban Transformations, 1890 - 1961. Funding: German Academic Scholarship Foundation. | Dr Graham Denyer Willis and Dr Sneha Krishnan |
Nazifa Rafa | Connecting the disconnect between the cultural framing of disaster resilience by refugee communities and the disaster risk reduction strategies implemented by the host state: A case study of the Rohingya refugee settlement in Bhasan Char, Bangladesh. | Dr Ayesha Siddiqi | |
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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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Alice Reid |
Cecilia Reed | No Man's Land: Volcanic Terrain, Vulnerability and Imaginative Embodiment . | Dr Amy Donovan | |
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Chloe Rixon | Memory, Cinema and Polish Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust. Funding: OOC AHRC DTP. | Prof Matthew Gandy |
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Lily Marie Rubino | Universal Access? Exploring everyday experiences of urban water insecurity in Newburgh, NY. Funding: Gates Cambridge. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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Graham Sadler | Remote monitoring of Arctic pollution from oil spills. Funding: Self-funding. | Prof Gareth Rees |
Mushtari Saidikova | Health effects of atmospheric aerosols from urban and volcanically-influenced environments. Funding: University of Central Asia Cambridge Scholarship. | Dr Anja Schmidt and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
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Udisha Saklani | Dams, Development and Diplomacy: Deconstructing Indian dam-building in the Himalayas. Funding: MAC Scholarship at Newnham College. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Emma Mawdsley |
Olivia Shears | Building with Nature: the role of bio-physical linkages within coastal wetland restoration. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Tom Spencer | |
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Hafsah Siddiqui | The Politics of Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski |
John Slattery | Abrupt sea ice loss in the Arctic: Tipping points in warm and cold climates. | Dr Francesco Muschitiello | |
Abigail Smith | Bringing law to its senses: waste, olfactory politics and the search for justice in New York City's 'overburdened' communities. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Owain Smith | A case study of Antillanca, Chile - Assessing risks posed by volcanoes with no historical eruptions. | Dr Amy Donovan and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
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Carolyn Smith | Indigenous Cosmologies and Active Volcanism Across the Chile-Argentina Border. Funding: ERC IMAGINE. | Dr Amy Donovan |
Catherine Tan | Hacking the limits of the earth: A critical cartography of techno-utopias at sea, in space, and on the virtual world. | Prof Alex Jeffrey | |
Ilanah Taves | Variations in Responses to Newly Situated Wildlife Among Disparate Cultural Groups in Urban Spaces. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Philip Howell | |
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Lucy Thompson | Stepping in Time and Space with Circum-Atlantic Performance: A Cultural and Historical Geography of Tap Dance. Funding: Internal Graduate Studentship, Trinity College. | Prof Philip Howell |
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Benjamin Thurlow | From ‘zero-tolerance’ to ‘living with the virus’: Geographies of containment in the elite political discourse of COVID-19 in New Zealand. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Alex Jeffrey and Dr Amy Donovan |
Ainsley Trahan | Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems: An Analysis of Heat Early Warning Systems in Ahmedabad, India. | Dr Amy Donovan | |
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Jonathon Turnbull | A Radioactive Refuge: Caring for Contaminated Canids in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Bill Adams and Prof Matthew Gandy |
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Joanna Watterson | Infrastructural entrepreneurship in the off-grid city: energy access and provision in Cape Town and Johannesburg’s post-apartheid townships. Funding: ESRC DTP. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski and Prof Jaideep Prabhu |
Jonathan White | Just in Time: Exploring experiences of 'time acceleration' in male UK gig economy workers. | Prof Mia Gray | |
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Deborah Wood | "To Those Who Knew Him Best Because They Loved Him Most" : The Role of Grief and Family Networks in Preserving Exploration Histories. | Prof Michael Bravo |
Mia Wroe | Dangerous waters: investigating the distribution and social impacts of volcanic metal and volatile pollution in the East African Rift . | Dr Amy Donovan | |
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Hannah Wynton | Explosive volcanism in the Kenyan Rift: a tephrostratigraphic perspective. Funding: NERC DTP. | Prof Christine Lane and Prof Clive Oppenheimer |
Maximilien Zahnd | Athabascan Conceptions of Space and Place through a Socio-legal Lens. Funding: Self. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Michael Bravo | |
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Naï Zakharia | Gender and histories of Arctic field science, 1900-1950. Funding: OOC AHRC DTP and Cambridge European & Newnham College Scholarship. | Prof Richard Powell |
Tamara Zambiasi | Brazil in the global contra-flow: the privatisation of basic sanitation as an instrument for universalizing access to water. | Prof Emma Mawdsley and Pedro Loureiro | |
Jure Zgubic | CE317: Improving parametrizations for convection in climate models. | Prof Michael Herzog |
Recently approved for the PhD
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. | 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. | Prof Michael Bravo |
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Katarzyna Baran | International Development Cooperation from below: recipients' perceptions of development cooperation in Haiti. Funding: Self. | Prof 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). | Prof Michael Herzog |
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Tanvi Bhatkal | Making cities work for women: gender and urban planning in India. Funding: Self. | Prof Charlotte Lemanski |
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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. | Prof Bill Adams and Juliet Vickery |
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Helen Brooks | Can nature protect us from the coastal impacts of climate change. Funding: NERC. | Dr Iris Möller and Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Katherine Royse |
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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. | 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. | Prof Andrew Friend |
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Annette Green | A political ecology of conservation and development corridors in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Funding: ESRC. | Prof Chris Sandbrook |
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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. | Prof Ash Amin |
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Maximilian Hepach | The climatic: A phenomenological approach to climate and its changes. Funding: AHRC and Cambridge European Scholarship - Cambridge Trust CCEIT. | Prof Mike Hulme |
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Edward Kiely | Mental Health in the ‘Holding Pattern’: The management of madness in austerity Britain. Funding: ESRC. | Prof David Nally |
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James Kirkham | Reconstructing water flow beneath past ice sheets. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof Julian Dowdeswell |
Marta Lang | Influencing industrial facility compliance: provincial environment agency practices in Vietnam. Funding: CIS. | Prof Keith Richards | |
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Robert Law | Fast-flowing ice in Greenland: fibre opticbmeasurements and process based modelling. Funding: ESS DTP NERC. | Prof 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). | Prof Philip Howell |
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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. | Prof 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. | Dr Ivan Scales | |
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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. | Prof Mike Hulme |
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Timothy Reilly | Governance of the Arctic and the oil and gas industry. Funding: Self-funded. | Prof Gareth Rees |
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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. | Prof Tom Spencer and Dr Mike Bithell |
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Morgan Seag | Equal Opportunities on Ice: Gendered institutional change in 20th century Antarctic science. Funding: GATES. | Prof Michael Bravo |
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Adam Searle | Celia's ghost: Liminality and authenticity in de/extinction. Funding: VC Award and King's College. | Prof Bill Adams |
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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. | Prof Chris Sandbrook |
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Laura Trajber Waisbich | Negotiating Accountability in South-South Cooperation for Development. Funding: CISS. | Prof Emma Mawdsley |
Yifu Wang | Identifying conservation solution in data-poor environments - the Yangtze finless porpoise as a conservation case study (an advertised project). Funding: Self funding. | Prof Nigel Leader-Williams |
Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.