Current PhD Students

Culture, Space and Power

  • Mara Ferreri - Cultural politics of vacant space reuse
  • Mary Guyatt – Children, Home and Empire
  • Eithne Nightingale - Children, Migration and Diaspora
  • Evelyn Owen - The Geographies of Contemporary African Art
  • Helen Rawling - Place and space in site specific memorial museums: Implications for reconciliation
  • Eilidh Reid - Meanings and geographies of home
  • Matthew Rippon - Geographical Indications
  • Subhadra Roy - Expressing identities and experiencing difference: Spatial practices in the everyday lives of Indian students in London and Toronto.
  • Imogen Wallace - From the geopolitical to the everyday; ‘Home’ for Muslim women in London and Bristol

 Economy, Development and Social Justice

  • Camille Aznar - Risk, financial exclusion and migrant workers in London
  • Supriti Bezbaruah - Engaging with the State: Does the Indian State allow space for women's collective action?
  • Steffen Fischer - Global Commodity Chains and Production Networks, Labour Markets, Political Economy of Development, Violent Conflict, State Formation, and Agrarian Change
  • Tim Heinemann - The social and economic relations of the production of Turkey as an emerging market
  • Menah Raven-Ellison - Migration and Mental Health: Migration and mothering experiences
  • Erica Pani - Finance regulation/self regulation
  • Joshua Phillips - Exploring the geographies of migrant entrepreneurialism in London
  • Francesco Salvini - The Right to the City and the Immanence of Citizenship: Urban social movements and the reinvention of politics outside representation in the everyday life of the Raval, Barcelona, 2000–2007
  • James Scott - Community Organising in the Labour Party
  • Olivia Sheringham - Everyday Transnationalism: Religion and Brazilian Migrants in London and ‘back home’
  • Aidan Wong - Mapping the global production networks of the recycling industries in Singapore and Malaysia

Health, Place and Society

  • Natalie Savona - Proportional Responsibility in the Food System
  • Claire Thompson - Environmental determinants of diet: exploring the mediating role of culture
  • Ania Wachnicka - Perspectives on self-harm: risk factors of people who self-harm and have suicidal thoughts

Environmental Change

  • Ginny Benardout - Quantifying Quaternary Climate Change
  • Clare Boston - Patterns and timing of lateglacial glaciation in the Monadhliath Mountains, central Scotland
  • Heather Channon - Palaeo ice streams: lateral shear margins and multiscale analysis of their landforms and sediments.
  • Amanda Ferguson - Polyphase deformation in subglacial and proglacial deposits of the UK
  • Marcus Hatch - Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Solent River: Human occupation in its stratigraphic context
  • Harold Lovell - High arctic surging glacier dynamics

Hydrogeomorphological and Biogeochemical Processes

  • Matthew Cashman
  • Michelle Collins
  • Grecia Garcia Lugo - River channel and biological response to changes in wood and sediment dynamics: hydromorphological and ecological implications for river rehabilitation.
  • Helen Gibbs - Urban river restoration: some potential problems associated with sediment accumulation
  • Tom Liffen - An investigation into the influence of physical and chemical substrate conditions on the biomechanical properties of Sparganium erectum, and the implications for natural and anthropogenic habitat creation in British lowland rivers                                                        
  • Nana Osei - Wood storage and dynamics in British rivers
  • Francis O’Shea-Brown
  • Lucy Shuker - An Interdisciplinary approach to Assessing, Planning and Managing Urban River Ecosystem Services
  • Kieran Stanley
  • Adam Sutcliffe - Effects of seasonal plant growth and weed cutting regimes on river flow hydraulics
  • Teferi Tolera - Redistribution of Contaminated Sediments Under Climate Change Scenarios