Completed PhDs
Awards list of PhD graduates in the School of Geography and Planning from 2020 to present day.
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Geography
| Year | Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | W Wenban | Deciphering the Influence of Glacial Erosion on Alpine Landscape Evolution Through a Novel Application of Thermoluminescence Thermochronometry |
| 2024 | E Hubbard | Democratic Politics for Community Economies |
| 2024 | R Archer | Emulating the last Eurasian Ice Sheet |
| 2024 | AM Hawkins | Serving Up Standards; An Institutional Ethnography of School Food Work in UK Primary Schools |
| 2024 | S Wen | Understanding Controls on Dust Emission in the Gonghe Basin, China using Integrated Remote Sensing Data |
| 2024 | RLJ Veness | Changing ice flow geometries of the British and Irish Ice Sheet: Applications of model-data comparisons |
| 2024 | MK Memon | Climate Change and Arctic Browning: Understanding the Role of Extreme Winter Weather Events |
| 2024 | WR Haynes | The in/visibility of homeless people at Termini railway station in Rome |
| 2023 | GT Rushby | Multimethodological approaches to reconstructing storms, sea level, coastal evolution, and their driving factors. |
| 2023 | FA Tornquist | Examining the causes of phytoplankton variation along the Chilean coast |
| 2023 | JB Ross | The melting Greenland Ice Sheet and the implications for the ocean |
| 2023 | Y Zhang | Understanding the dynamics of the Indonesian Throughflow and its global significance, both today and in the Late Quaternary |
| 2023 | J Cromwell | Understanding Food Loss and Waste in Tanzania's Avocado Production Systems: A Case study of Domestic and Export Avocado Supply Chains. |
| 2023 | O Abu | A Life-Course Approach to Understanding the Relationships Between Forced Migration Trajectories and Food Insecurity Paths in Central Nigeria |
| 2023 | N Dewald | Subglacial Drainage Networks of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet |
| 2023 | RV Jaines | Landscapes of Discontent: Petrified Unrest in the Fens of Eastern England |
| 2023 | RN Simas Lima | Subordinate Housing Financialization: Institutional Investors and Urban Development in Lisbon |
| 2023 | T Chitata | Living with flows of groundwater and infrastructure governance: the case of Rufaro Irrigation Scheme, Zimbabwe |
| 2023 | S Ahmadi Golsaz | My place is placeless: Exploring belonging among second generation "Iranians" in Sweden |
| 2023 | SM Langford | Extinction Rebellion: The dynamics of contemporary radical British environmental activism |
| 2023 | PA Tuckett | The distribution and evolution of Antarctic surface meltwater |
| 2023 | HF Mottram | Examining justice issues in minigrids for rural electrification: A participatory and interdisciplinary study |
| 2022 | SW Ashua | Impact of Climate variability on Maize production in the Agroclimates of Cross River State, Nigeria |
| 2022 | TMM Weimer | Relationships Between Fire and Protected Areas: A Mixed Methods Approach for Mozambique |
| 2022 | JL Molloy | Investigating variability in the diet, distribution and demographics of Barents Sea cod, 1991-2017: A combined statistical modelling approach |
| 2022 | PAN Muchada | An exploration of Zimbabwean and British Chickenscapes to Understand Food Safety and Supply |
| 2022 | K Weber | Why is the atmosphere over land becoming drier? Exploring the roles of atmospheric and land-surface processes on relative humidity |
| 2022 | AL Dorgan | Private Sector Investment and the Green Economy: The Local Consequences of Tree Plantations in Southern Tanzania |
| 2022 | A Ethur Dias | Assessing the Urban Metabolism of Informal Settlements: Understanding Infrastructure Configurations and Measuring Resource Use |
| 2022 | I San Roman Pineda | A tourism from below: An approach for the realisation of community life projects |
| 2022 | JL Veenstra | Assessing the potential of no-tillage farming across contrasting European soils |
| 2022 | BB Amos | Estimated Protected Areas Impact on Multidimensional Poverty Outcomes and Assessments of PAs Management and Governance Inputs in Nigeria |
| 2022 | NA Okong'o | Politics of Progress: An Analysis of Gender in the Extractive Sector in Kenya |
| 2022 | SM Gilgannon | Origin of overdeepened bedrock basins and valleys in ice sheet settings |
| 2022 | WJ Higson | Effect of a Terminal Overdeepening on Glacier Hydrology and Flow |
| 2022 | SJ Barragan Contreras | Towards a people-centred sustainable energy transition: Exploring energy justice in Yucatan, Mexico |
| 2021 | AP McCarron | The late Quaternary Northwest Pacific: A marine investigation of glacial change in NE Siberia, terrestrialsediment flux and regional palaeoclimatology |
| 2021 | MA Cruz Mercado | Alternative Food Markets in Mexico City: Agoecological perspectives toward sustainable food systems |
| 2021 | BB Blyton | Food, Place, Memory | Production, Plot, Story |
| 2021 | H Staples | Insurgent Territories: Peace, Politics and DDR in Colombia |
| 2021 | ELM Lewington | New insights into subglacial meltwater drainage pathways from the ArcticDEM |
| 2021 | HI Dolek | Between Patriarchy and Occupation: Joyful Encounters, Intimate Politics and Endurance in Hebron |
| 2021 | A Dayal | Seasonal Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Snow during Spring and Summer Melt in Svalbard |
| 2021 | CK Dongurum | Sexual Behaviour and the Social Epidemiology of HIV in Nigeria: the Case of Plateau State and Nasarawa State |
| 2020 | BGB Kitchener | Reinterpreting turbidity: new methodologies for suspended-sedmiment research |
| 2020 | R Hardie | Public-Private Partnerships in Sustainability in Low and Middle Income Country Contexts: Case Studies From Nigeria |
| 2020 | GL Ives | A history of the monsoon in southern India between 1730 and 1920 and its impact on society: with a particular focus on Tamil Nadu |
| 2020 | DJ Casey | Evaluating the Role of Public-Private Partnerships for the Delivery of Ecosystem Services in UK Agriculture: The case of Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs) |
| 2020 | F Cannell | Why (or Do) We Build with Brick? Exploring the dependence on the fired clay brick in the building of residential homes for private sale |
| 2020 | EL Jones | The Biogeochemistry of the Active Layer and the Shallow Permafrost in a High Arctic Fjord Valley, Svalbard |
Urban studies and planning
| Year | Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L O'Farrell | Luxury State Capture and the Elite City: Wealth, Space and the State in Three Offshore Financial Centres |
| 2024 | N Wang | Understanding the role of peer-to-peer accommodation in distrupting the neighbourhood: A new form of gentrification |
| 2024 | S Suryani | Displacements and urban water infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 2024 | C Cagil | Changes in Inter-State Authority Relations in Contemporary Metropolitan Governance |
| 2024 | Y Wu | Housing Transformations and Financialised Urbanism: The Case of Military Dependents' Villages in Taipei |
| 2024 | HA Elhalaby | NGO-led village development in Egypt: An enduring discourse |
| 2024 | MA Oveson | Community-University Partnerships in the Neoliberal University Through an Ethics of Care and Slow Scholarship Lens |
| 2024 | JS Patient | Understanding UK trade union responses to climate change: a multi-level case study of union concerns and capacities in Yorkshire and the Humber, 2008-2019 |
| 2024 | AM Mariech | The nexus between disability and urban informality: disabled voices from Eldoret¿s informal settlements |
| 2024 | JM De Little | Operationalising climate justice: a case study of experiences of flooding and flood governance in Rochdale Borough |
| 2024 | M Marshall | Financialisation, regulation and the ¿social and moral mission¿ of English housing associations |
| 2024 | T Talitha | Beyond a 'Space of Exception': The Multi-Scalar Politics of Megaproject Development in Indonesia |
| 2023 | GH Jewitt | Narrative and the development of Scunthorpe |
| 2023 | C Lee | The private sector, purpose built, student accommodation development nexus and its impact on central Sheffield. |
| 2023 | D Ferrazzi | Crime, housing tenure, and urban space: A study of Sheffield |
| 2023 | H Lee | The Work and Impact of Neighbourhood Development Plans post-adoption |
| 2023 | M Heckel | Water service providers and debt emitters: Kenya's transformation of public water and sanitation utilities' financing |
| 2023 | M Mingay | Crisis and the Common(s): Understanding Urban Community Land Trust Activism |
| 2023 | P Schappo | Public Markets and Social Justice in Cities: A South-North comparative study of markets¿ social justice potential and the role of urban governance |
| 2023 | PM Hughes | Enabling Community-Led Housing |
| 2023 | S Robi | Industrial park cities in Ethiopia |
| 2023 | Y Liu | Gated communities in Chinese cities: social networks, mobilities and segregation |
| 2023 | D Ferrazzi | Crime, housing tenure, and urban space: A study of Sheffield |
| 2023 | SW Robi | The Politics of Urban Industrialization: Integrating the Urban Industrial Nexus in Ethiopia's Disintegrating Ethno-Federal Party State |
| 2023 | C Lee | The making of a market: the private sector, purpose built, student accommodation development nexus and its impact on central Sheffield 2000-2019 |
| 2023 | M Heckel | Water service providers and debt emitters: Kenya's transformation of public water and sanitation utilities' financing |
| 2022 | C Chan | ¿Silver linings Graybook¿: A Comparative Study of Age-friendly Development in Hong Kong and Manchester |
| 2022 | P Schappo | Public Markets and Social Justice in Cities: A South-North comparative study of markets social justice potential and the role of urban governance |
| 2022 | ASA Difalla | Towards a Relational-Processual Understanding of Informal Settlements in Saudi Arabia: Informality, Collectives, and Urbanization. |
| 2022 | V Lo | Understanding People in their 50s and 60¿s Housing Decision Making Process for Later Life |
| 2022 | RM Lucas | The Housing Crisis and Redefining the Role of the Housing Professional |
| 2022 | EI Maiyanga | Household Water Practices in a Rapidly Urbanising City: Implications for the Future of Potable Water in African Lower-Middle Income Countries |
| 2022 | F Mohammed | Displacement to the camp vs Displacement to the city: A comparative study of Internally Displaced Persons' capabilities in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeastern Nigeria. |
| 2022 | R Shamseen | The Application of Municipal Bonds to fund Local authorities projects in England; Barriers and Solutions |
| 2022 | JA Vine | Social cohesion and local leadership in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: encounters, urban trauma and complexity |
| 2021 | JLH Erskine | Household Strategies in a Yorkshire Mining Village |
| 2021 | VO Okoye | Children's community space experiences in Nima: Tracing racializing assemblages of the human |
| 2021 | CJC Van der Lijn | Understanding Spatial Housing Choice and Demand: A comparative study of London, Liverpool, and Sheffield |
| 2021 | RA Bust | Safeguarding and conflicts in local minerals planning |
| 2021 | M Jeong | Refractive Spatialisation: The Digital Picturesque, the Online-Reality Gap and Gentrification in Seoul |
| 2021 | FO Ajia | Water efficiency engagement in the UK: barriers and opportunities |
| 2021 | RG Bellinson | Doing things differently? The promise and pitfalls of co-productive urban climate policy development in Greater Manchester, UK |
| 2020 | KA Ward | Strategic spatial planning in a devolving governance context: A study of Sheffield City Region |
| 2020 | VS Pancholi | Planned Ambitions Versus Lived Realities: An Examination of the BSUP Scheme in the Periphery of Mumbai |
| 2020 | E Nyanzu | Assessing neighbourhood deprivation: understanding local spatial context |
| 2020 | P Niu | Policy-making and Deliberation in Urban Village Regeneration in China |
| 2020 | Z Lu | The Implementation of China's New-Type Urbanisation Plan to Reduce Educational Inequality of Migrant Children in Changsha |
| 2020 | SL Linn | Intersectional identities, space and security: Syrian refugee women's experiences and negotiations of Amman and Beirut |
| 2020 | H Jiang | Green Housing Transitions in the Chinese housing market: an institutional analysis from the developers' perspective |
| 2020 | SL Faulkner | From Andes to Amazon: Translocal Livelihoods in the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Sector |
| 2020 | D Dasgupta | Participatory Governance Reform In West Bengal: Policy Agendas and Local Responses |
| 2020 | DM Asafo | Peri-urban Development: Land conflict and its effect on housing development in peri-urban Accra, Ghana |
| 2020 | SMM Aldalbahi | The Structure of the Current Housing Provision in Saudi Arabia: an institutional perspective |