The University of Sheffield
Department of Geography

Current Research Students

Postgraduate Research in Human Geography, 2012-2013
Name Project title
Lauren Blake An oral history of recent British food activism
Margi Bryant Conservation, communities and international volunteering in sub-Saharan Africa
Lewis Cameron Enabling Access to Energy for Sustainable Development in Remote Areas
Elizabeth Carabine Impacts of climate change on semi-arid grasslands: scales of interaction and livelihood security
Eleanor Carter TBC
Jennifer Carton Writing the self (after) non-representational theory
Nick Clare iQue se vayan todos! Migrants, labour movements, and the 'underclass' in Buenos Aires
Tom Croll-Knight Easy listening? The politics and poetics of cross-cultural musical collaboration in contemporary France
Corrie de Blocq van Scheltinga (Viti)culture: a geography of Franschoek, Western Cape
Carol Dixon TBC
Alexandra Dorgan TBC
Simon Duphey Impact of HIV/AIDS on household livelihood in Ghana
Anna Gawlewicz Mobility and Encounters with Difference: The Impact of Migrant Experience on the Transmission of Values and Attitudes
Mike Gordon Institutional and policy conditions for the development of social enterprise in South Yorkshire
Mark Green Death in England and Wales, 1981-2009: Using a classificatory approach for researching mortality
Rosie Hughes Performing the ‘Rural’ Through Materialities: Thinking Critically about Cars
Alexandros Karvounis The Impact of EU Regional Policy and its Future on Metropolitan Regions of Cohesion Countries
Hannah Lambie-Mumford Emergency food provision in the UK: Understanding its Rise and Implications
Robin Lovelace The energy costs of commuting: a spatial microsimulation approach
Felicitas Mberema Disclosure of HIV status: Women's experience of gender-based violence in Namibia
Kasia Narkowicz Contested Spaces: Group Identities and Competing Rights in Transitioning Warsaw
Nick Piper Consuming Popular Food Media: Audiencing Jamie Oliver
John Pritchard TBC
Ava Shackleford TBC
Vincent Song 'Consuming' the Peranakan Identity: Understanding Postcoloniality and Consumption
Thom Sullivan Living and Walking With a Guide Dog
Roza Tchoukaleyska Re-imagining public space: Urban renewal, identity and discourses of consumption in Montpellier, France
Luke Temple Citizen Support for Democratic Governance
Marcia Vera Espinoza Refugee protection in South America: A critical analysis of the regional resettlement model in Chile and Brazil
Amber Wilson TBC
Sarah Wrathmell Exploring connective commodity geographies between the UK and Sri Lanka
Will Wright TBC

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Postgraduate Research in Physical Geography, 2011-2012
Name Project title
Belgasim Alabidi Land Degradation in Libya
Rebecca Coles Glacial landscaping: using geomorphological properties of glaciated terrain to test and refine a landscape evolution model
Tom Cropper Air-sea interaction in Macaronesia
James Douglas TBC
Jeremy Ely TBC
William Fairburn TBC
James Foster The effects of land use change on the sediment sources and sedimentation rates of the River Liza catchment at Ennerdale in the Lake District
Andrew Gray Microbially-mediated sulphide oxidation in Arctic terrestrial sediments
Richard Hall TBC
Matt Hannaford The consequences of past and future climate change for state formation and security in southern Africa
Richard Hayes Assessing Mountain Glacier Health Signatures Stored in Their Ice Surface Geometry
Tom Hurst TBC
Tristan Ibrahim Interaction between aquifers and streams in highly heterogeneous environments
Amy Jowett TBC
Jonny Kingslake Dynamics of Subglacial Outburst Floods
Krystyna Koziol Provenance, Composition and Fate of Organic Carbon on an Arctic Glacier
Kuok Choy Lam Remote Sensing of Soil Erosion Processes
Christopher Lloyd Controls on the location and geometry of glacial overdeepening
Aga Nowak Zwierz Biochemistry of Meltwater in the High Arctic with an emphasis on nitrogen species; a nested catchment approach
Kate Orgill TBC
Tom Parker Plant-soil interactions in a greening arctic
Tom Pering Passive and Active Degassing of CO2 and SO2 from volcanoes using Ultra-Violet Camera Technology
Shohrab Sarker Climate change induced migration and its consequences: a case study of Bangladesh
Faraj Sulaiman Reclamation, Development and Cultivation of North East Jefara Plain Vallies (Al Margeb County) Libya
Teresa Weimer Human and physical feedbacks of biomass burning in South Africa

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