PhD student profiles

The Department of Geography is at the forefront of human and physical geography research, with our internationally excellent and world-leading contribution being recognised in the most recent REF (2014). Find out more about the issues some of our PhD researchers are tackling.

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The everyday lives of homeless migrants in urban railway stations

William Haynes Supervised by Professor Richard Phillips

Seen and unseen: homeless migrants at Stazione Termini in Rome.

Exploring the relationship between tourism and development in Mexico's premier resort

Itzel San Roman Pineda Supervised by Dr Miguel Kanai

Clustering from Below: A tool for Development in The Yucatan Peninsula.

Understanding and predicting the behaviour of ice sheets is a major challenge for today's scientists.

Nico Dewald Supervised by Professor Chris Clark

Subglacial drainage networks of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet.

PhD student Stephen Langford with his dog

Activism has an important role in shaping today's environmental debate

Stephen Langford Supervised by Professor Jenny Pickerill

How alliances across difference are made and sustained in British environmental activism.

I hope to find out more about water, the fundamental element for life

KM Florentine Weber Supervised by Dr Julie Jones

Why is the atmosphere becoming drier? The roles of atmospheric processes and vegetation feedbacks, and their implications for future climate change.

Understanding how Palestinian women make sense of themselves and of space

Hazal Dolek Supervised by Dr Eric Olund

Places That Endure: Women's Spacings in the Palestinian Territories.

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