Our PhD candidates
Funded PhD students and their research areas.
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Our PhD candidates receive financial support to undertake their studies from a variety of sources. These include UK research councils (particularly ESRC and EPSRC), ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý funding (both fee waivers and scholarships offering maintenance funding), and overseas governments and funding organisations (for example, CONACYT for students from Mexico).
Geography PhD candidates
| Name | Research area |
| Shriya Bajaj | Inequalities in Market Access to Nutrient Dense Foods: A Mixed Methods Investigation in Rural India |
| Aishwarya Bhuta | Interrogating NGO-isation, Rethinking Women's Empowerment: Case Studies from India |
| Ingun Borg | |
| Ollie Chesworth | Interrogating the nature of foodscapes and alternative food-economies through alternative food spaces |
| Ben Cornford | An investigative study into Concentric Crater Fills and their relationship with Martian glacial and climate histories |
| Charlotte Curry | The Impacts of Climate Change and Mining on Glaciers in the Andes |
| Rebecca England | Spectroscopic measurements of volcanic gases in volcanic environments |
| Alyssa Heggison | Automated Analysis of Volcano Imagery with Machine Learning Techniques |
| Josephine Hornsey | |
| Davi Lemos | Carnival as Queer Claim: Reappropriating Rio de Janeiro’s streets through LGBTQ+ celebratory performances |
| Virginia Longo | Engineer crop behaviours to respond to extreme climatic conditions |
| Laura Maratou-Kolias | Female Household-Headship, Agricultural Productivity, and Factor and Output Markets: The Case of Uganda’s Cotton Smallholder Farmers |
| Teresa (Tete') Mausse | Informal Water Provision: Enabling or Constraining -Sustainable- Development? |
| Winnie M Musivo | |
| Mwanja Mwale | The good life? Focusing a capability lens on Zambia's social cash transfer programme |
| Tarja Rannisto | Wellbeing benefits of sustainable urban woodlands: The significance of aesthetic awareness in cities environmental strategies in terms of people's wellbeing |
| Luke Richardson | Dynamics of Glacier blood: Understanding climatically important extremophiles from the continental to molecular scale |
| Charlotte Pacey | Student Loneliness: Curating Experiences and Breaking Silences |
| Dimitra Pilichou | Does living in an eco-community make you happier? - Critical evaluation of case studies from Greece as potential alternative development pathways |
| Tessa Spano | Understanding fluvial sediment transport using infra-red stimulated luminescence |
| Katie Sumner | |
| Mirsu Tekin | Quantifying bioturbation rates of different earthworm functional groups using novel methods |
| Sian Thorpe | Investigation into the ice dynamic impact of active subglacial lake drainage |
Urban studies and planning PhD candidates
| Name | Research area |
| Enes Aydin | Redefining Socio-Spatial Inequalities through Comparative Urban Policy Analysis in London and Berlin |
| Helen Brown | Understanding attitudes and perceptions amongst older people of housing and housing processes in an era of rising demand |
| James Beaumont | Out-of-area displacement: Exploring how England’s housing system is shaping new forms of urban marginalisation |
| Aïcha Diallo | Urban Possession and Repossession in Dakar |
| Charly Eden | Migrant youth activisms: de-bordering practices and urban solidarities in re-imagining the city |
| Mónica Martin Grau | Urban frictions: prosperity turns within Nairobi’s water tinkering practices |
| Francesca Guarino | Othered people in othered places: a critical and situated exploration of the challenges of cultural diversity in Palermo |
| George Jewitt | A better tomorrow: paternalism, totalitarianism, democracy |
| Xinyu Jin | Safeguarding the Past, Embracing the Future An Examination of Alternative Development Strategies for Chinese Historic Urban Quarters |
| Chan-Woo Kim | Commercial real estate rental markets in Europe |
| Stephanie Lacey | The impact of female homelessness on children's educational experiences in inner-city schools |
| Wanying Li | Residential Redevelopment: Eviction and the reconstruction of space in the lower half of Chongqing, China |
| Mateus Lira | The politics of resettlement and occupations in Brazil |
| Emma Mahoney | Understanding Power in Urban Climate Governance: The Case of Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Catherine Malpass | Schools as sites for integrated community food action |
| Naomi Oates | Water service provision practices in Malawi |
| Inken Oldsen-thor Straten | An analysis of local authorities and property developers’ relations shaping spatial change in Cape Town and Johannesburg |
| Christopher Outlaw | Socio-spatial dynamics of queerness and mobility in Bogotá, Colombia |
| Marion Oveson | Civic universities and social justice |
| Zhuo (Claire) Pang | Embodied Arrivals: Migrant Newcomers and Urban Arrival Infrastructure |
| Martyna Piliszewska | Why do they stay? Exploring the reasons why homeless Polish migrant workers remain in a state of prolonged destitution in post-Brexit Britain |
| Rahul Raj | Political Ecologies of Caste, Class and Precarious Labour in Indian Cities |
| Camille Rantz-McDonald | The Impact of the Planning system on the Gypsy and Traveller community; counter-mapping, oral histories and housing justice |
| Holly Rooke | Migration, Cities and Inequality |
| Xiao Tang | Investigation of how land use/cover change impact on housing price at Megaregion |
| Stephany Mercedes Vargas-Rojas | Governing forced migration in Colombia's peace transition: integrating urban resettlement and housing in the Llano Verde housing state in Cali, Colombia |
| Agustina Vazquez | Making Sense of Socio-Spatial Inequality: A Qualitative Study of Geographical Proximity and Social Distance in Buenos Aires |
| Nancy Marcia L. Wilson | Housing discrimination in the Sheffield metropolitan area, 1960s to the present |
| Said Zaaneen | Urban refugee camps in the Gaza Strip |
| Rong Zheng | Exploring Children’s Nature-Based Place Attachment in High-density Metropolitan Areas |