
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?. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Nathaniel Douglass | Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Dr Mike Bithell | |
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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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Xingran Gao | Examining the Influence of Aerosols from Air Pollution on Current and Projected Temperature Trends in the Urban Area
of Chongqing, China. Funding: Self Funding. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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: Gray Whale Migration, Histories, and Justice on the North American Pacific Coast. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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 |
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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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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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Alex Jeffrey |
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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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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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- 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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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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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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Alice Oates | Instruments of scientific governance? Historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present. Funding: AHRC CDA. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Richard Powell |
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Tami Okamoto | Territory and indigenous geographies in the Peruvian Amazon. | Prof Sarah Radcliffe |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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 |
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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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Hafsah Siddiqui | The Politics of Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan. Funding: Gates Cambridge Scholarship. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
Prof Charlotte Lemanski |
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John Slattery | Abrupt sea ice loss in the Arctic: Tipping points in warm and cold climates. | Dr Francesco Muschitiello |
Owain Smith | A case study of Antillanca, Chile - Assessing risks posed by volcanoes with no historical eruptions. | Dr Amy Donovan and Prof Clive Oppenheimer | |
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 | |
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Carolyn Smith | Volcanic Imaginaries: Between Indigeneity and Risk Across the Chile-Argentina Border. Funding: ERC IMAGINE. | Dr Amy Donovan |
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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 and Prof Matthew Gandy |
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 |
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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. PhD thesis submitted for examination. |
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 |
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Jon White | Just in Time: Exploring experiences of 'time acceleration' in male UK gig economy workers. | Prof Mia Gray |
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Fleur Winn | Understanding participation in and through conservation research and practice. Funding: ESRC DTP KeS. | Prof Chris Sandbrook |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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