Completed PhDs
Awards list of PhD graduates from 2010 to the present day.
| Year | Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Carlo Chan | Urban planning and ageing |
| 2022 | Abdulla Difalla | Toward a relational understanding of informal areas in Saudi Arabia |
| 2022 | Vanessa Lo | Understanding the housing decision-making processes of elderly people |
| 2022 | Ruth Lucas | The housing crisis and the changing role of the housing professional in England |
| 2022 | Emmanuel Maiyanga | Household water practices in a rapidly urbanising city |
| 2022 | Fatima Mohammed | Resettlement and rehabilitation initiatives in Nigeria |
| 2022 | Rami Shamseen | Decentralisation and the growth of core cities |
| 2022 | Jeni Vine | Building cohesive neighbourhoods: conflict and rank awareness |
| 2021 | Fatima Ajia | Public communications in the adaptive water utility |
| 2021 | Ryan Bellinson | Coproducing urban climate change and environmental governance: A case study of Greater Manchester Beth Perry |
| 2020 | Vidya Pancholi | Towards substantive public participation in urban governance |
| 2020 | Elvis Nyanzu | Assessing neighbourhood deprivation: understanding local spatial context |
| 2020 | Pu Niu | ‘Deliberative democracy’ and the integration of the urban village into the city |
| 2020 | Zhen Lu | Housing and schools - social justice in China |
| 2020 | Sarah Linn | Intersectional identities of urban refugee women and their negotiation of space and security in Amman and Beirut |
| 2020 | Han Jiang | Zero carbon housing in China |
| 2020 | Sally Faulkner | Vulnerable communities, collective bargaining and climate change adaptation |
| 2020 | Debjani Dasgupta | State-responsiveness, decentralisation and poverty reduction in West Bengal, India |
| 2020 | Divine Asafo | Land acquisition, land conflicts and its effect on housing production in peri-urban Accra, Ghana |
| 2020 | Salman Aldalbahi | The housing market in Saudi Arabia |
| 2019 | Caroline McCalman | Nuclear heresy: environmentalism as implicit religion |
| 2019 | Amy Beckett | New-build housing, mobility and the life course: a study of housing-driven economic growth strategy in Doncaster |
| 2019 | Sinan Akyuz | Redevelopment of the squatter settlement neighbourhoods in Ankara, Turkey |
| 2019 | Daniel Tubridy | Infrastructure and design: case studies of stormwater management from Copenhagen and Sheffield |
| 2018 | Nathan Sandran | A critical examination of planning issues surrounding the formulation of public-private partnership toll road projects in Malaysia |
| 2018 | Karwan Taha | An institutionalist analysis of the role of environmental sustainability ideas in urban development policy processes: Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan region of Iraq |
| 2018 | Jiazhe Zhu | The impact of immigration on the local housing market in England and Wales |
| 2018 | Milyung Son | 'Urban regeneration' to 'social regeneration': culture and social regeneration through the Culture City of East Asia event initiative in Cheongju, South Korea |
| 2018 | Jason Slade | What do they know? The power and potential of story in planning |
| 2018 | Annie Cruz-Porter | In pursuit of recognition in a digitally divided city: conceptualising voice, visibility and presence in the age of social media |
| 2018 | Anthony McLean | Unsplintering urbanism: examining the integration of urban infrastructures |
| 2018 | Morag Rose | Women walking Manchester: desire lines through the 'original modern' city |
| 2018 | Charlotte Hoole | Leadership and governance in a city-regional context: a case study of Doncaster |
| 2018 | Uyi Ezeanah | The delivery and quality of housing in Benin City: the influence of formal and informal institutions |
| 2018 | Emily Ball | Investigating support, sanctioning and behaviour change mechanisms in family-based interventions |
| 2018 | Wu Long Jhuang | Territoriality, resistance and indigenous development in protected areas: a political ecology analysis of Turku people in Eastern Taiwan |
| 2017 | Gareth Young | Housing tenure and urban unrest: responding to contemporary rioting through housing-related mechanisms |
| 2017 | Lam Doan | A systems approach to housing market analysis: the role of search and migration in market dynamics in Greater Manchester |
| 2017 | Claire Reger | Understanding the post start-up experiences of community-based energy schemes in the UK |
| 2017 | Timi Owei | The changing context of energy generation and supply |
| 2017 | Hanaw Amin | Conservation planning, urban change and social life in Sulainmaniyah, Kurdistan-Iraq |
| 2017 | Jo Oldfield | The performance and re-performance of sustainability |
| 2017 | Adipandang Yudono | Enhancing democracy in spatial planning through spatial data sharing in Indonesia |
| 2017 | Emmanuel Adu-Ampong | Governing tourism-led economic development planning: an interactive tourism governance perspective on the Elmina 2015 strategy in Ghana |
| 2017 | Andy Lockhart | Unnatural markets: The politics of biodiversity off-setting and failed environment market-making in England |
| 2017 | Emma Morales | Middle-class gatedness: a practice-based analysis of middle-class gated communities in Mexico |
| 2017 | Xin Feng | The changing role of urban planners in transitional China: expectations, appropriateness and 'making a difference' |
| 2016 | Jacob Gower | A rapid rural appraisal of energy access in Cambodia |
| 2016 | Mary Mwangi | Urban growth management in sub-Saharan Africa: conflicting interests in the application of planning laws and regulations in middle income residential developments in Nairobi |
| 2016 | Hannah Bayfield | Mobilising Manchester through the Manchester International Festival: Whose city, whose culture? An exploration of the representation of cities through cultural events |
| 2016 | Aysegul Can | The relationship between neighbourhood renovation and gentrification in a historic environment: the example of Istanbul |
| 2016 | Jieling Xiao | A study to explore smellscape: from understanding and interpretation to evaluation and design in urban intermodal transit spaces in UK and China |
| 2016 | Chloe Skinner | Masculinities and the continuum of violence: A study of the interplay of masculinities, militarism, occupation and violence against women in Israel and Palestine |
| 2016 | Reyhana Shojaei | Deep understanding of private housing supply in Tehran - An application of structure and agency approach |
| 2016 | Gabby Perez Ibarra | The meaning of 'social' in Mexican social housing |
| 2016 | Chris Maidment | Planning in the public interest? Looking for the `public interest' in English plan-making |
| 2015 | Qiaomin Hong | Stakeholders' interactions in the redevelopment of urban villages: A case study in Xiamen |
| 2015 | Zifei Cheng | The dilemma of changes in Chinese local governnance: Through the lens of heritage conservation |
| 2015 | Tom Ellerton | Exploring the impact of New Labour urban regeneration policy at the local scale: the implications of an approach to 'joining-up' on the coordination of urban regeneration |
| 2015 | Taehee Lee | Issues of planning justice within two large-scale urban (re)development projects in Seoul, South Korea |
| 2015 | Tim Neal | An ethnographic study of British migrants in rural France |
| 2014 | Fahyre Loiola | The formulation of public private partnerships projects for infrastructure developments in Brazil: An institutional analysis of the municipality of fortaleza |
| 2014 | Kirsten Owen | Youth in the mix: An exploration of young people's position in a neighbourhood designed for social mix |
| 2014 | Youhong Yang | The rationalities of irrational behaviours: the dynamics of the owner-occupied residential property process in Shenzhen, China |
| 2013 | Jin Hee Park | Institutional explorations of shaping a particular housing culture in South Korea: The Gangnam District, Seoul |
| 2013 | Xiaoyuan Wan | Changing governmentalities and power relations in Chinese government 'community construction' practices |
| 2013 | Dalia Gouda | The impact of social capital on the operations of water user's organisations in Egypt's old lands |
| 2013 | Sarah Charlton | State ambitions and people's practices: An exploration of RDP housing in Johannesburg |
| 2013 | Ozlem Celik | Changing forms and strategies of state intervention in the housing of the poor in Istanbul |
| 2013 | Fatih Eren | Local and global interactions in the evolution of Istanbul's retail property market |
| 2012 | Dan Lin | Policy for protected ecological areas in urban China: A case study of the DaPeng Peninsula and the rapidly urbanizing city of Shenzhen |
| 2012 | Myung Jun Kim | The role of the environmental movement in government decision making in newly democratised Korea: Focusing on the anti-dam protest |
| 2012 | Lucy Jones | The making and continued making of 'eco-home' and the coming-into-being of 'eco-being' |
| 2012 | Lee Crookes | The making of space and the losing of place: A critical geography of gentrification-by-bulldozer in the North of England |
| 2011 | David Scofield | Risk, cost and capital: Liquidity and transaction cost pricing in commercial real estate investment |
| 2011 | Jennifer Brooks | The influence of identity on travel behaviour |
| 2010 | Yan Wang | Environmental policy and politics in the 'ordinary' Chinese city |
| 2010 | Berna Keskin | Alternative approaches to modelling housing market segmentation: Evidence from Istanbul |
| 2010 | Simon Parris | Institutional ecologies of commercial property development |
| 2010 | Sowadee Thongsukplang | Governing development through leases in Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2010 | Dave Vanderhoven | Community representation and legitimacy in urban regeneration: insights from the global North and South |
| 2010 | Zhihua Zhou | An institutional analysis of market housing development in a transitional economy: The case of Guangzhou, China |
| 2010 | Eric Tenz | The Stadtumbau Ost and the governance of non-profit housing and urban renewal in post-socialist Eastern Germany |
| 2010 | Hassan Sani | The impact of urban management on residential mobility in Jos metropolis, Nigeria |