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), University 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 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| Tarja Rannisto | Wellbeing benefits of sustainable urban woodlands: The significance of aesthetic awareness in cities environmental strategies in terms of people's wellbeing |
| Hannah Redman | The importance of the form of testimonial narratives in efforts to prevent public sexual harassment of women in the UK |
| 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 |
| Xinyu Jin | Safeguarding the Past, Embracing the Future An Examination of Alternative Development Strategies for Chinese Historic Urban Quarters |
| 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 |
| 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 |