Current PhD candidates
Funded PhD students and their research areas and supervisors.
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).
| Name | Research area | Primary supervisor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Brown | hlbrown2@sheffield.ac.uk | Understanding attitudes and perceptions amongst older people of housing and housing processes in an era of rising demand | Malcolm Tait |
| Cihan Cagil | trp11ctc@sheffield.ac.uk | The Istanbul International Financial Center and World City Planning in Istanbul | John Henneberry |
| Fiona Calder | f.calder@sheffield.ac.uk | Involving customers in directing water supply and sewerage outcomes | Liz Sharp |
| Juliet de Little | jmdelittle1@sheffield.ac.uk | Planning for resilience under multi-stakeholder risk management | Liz Sharp |
| Hoda Elhalaby | haelhalaby1@sheffield.ac.uk | The effect of NGOs interventions on urban villages in Egypt | Steve Connelly |
| Dario Ferrazzi | dferrazzi1@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing, crime and the city: re-addressing the urban crime question | Rowland Atkinson |
| Manuel Heckel | mheckel1@sheffield.ac.uk | Urban governance and finance in sub-Saharan Africa | Glyn Williams |
| Philippa Hughes | phughes4@sheffield.ac.uk | Community land trusts | John Flint |
| George Jewitt | g.jewitt@sheffield.ac.uk | A better tomorrow: paternalism, totalitarianism, democracy | Peter Bibby |
| Chan-Woo Kim | cwkim1@sheffield.ac.uk | Commercial real estate rental markets in Europe | Craig Watkins |
| Stephanie Lacey | svlacey1@sheffield.ac.uk | The impact of female homelessness on children's educational experiences in inner-city schools | Michele Lancione |
| Carl Lee | clee37@sheffield.ac.uk | Purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) development nexus in Sheffield 2000-2019. | Sarah Payne |
| Hakjin Lee | hlee58@sheffield.ac.uk | Neighbourhood planning: localism, community participation and conflicts | Andy Inch |
| Wanying Li | WLi94@sheffield.ac.uk | Residential Redevelopment: Eviction and the reconstruction of space in the lower half of Chongqing, China | Amparo Tarazona Vento |
| Yixin Liu | yliu155@sheffield.ac.uk | Gated communities in China | Rowland Atkinson |
| Abraham Mariech | AMMariech1@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing and disability within urban informality in Eldoret, Kenya | Paula Meth |
| Martha Mingay | mmingay1@sheffield.ac.uk | Community land trusts and the housing crisis | John Flint |
| Naomi Oates | nemoates1@sheffield.ac.uk | Water service provision practices in Malawi | Steve Connelly |
| Inken Oldsen-thor Straten | ioldsen-thorstraten1@sheffield.ac.uk | An analysis of local authorities and property developers’ relations shaping spatial change in Cape Town and Johannesburg | Paula Meth |
| Marion Oveson | m.a.oveson@sheffield.ac.uk | Civic universities and social justice | Lee Crookes |
| Jenny Patient | jspatient1@sheffield.ac.uk | Trade Unions and a 'just' transition to low carbon | Beth Perry |
| Martyna Piliszewska | mppiliszewska1@sheffield.ac.uk | Why do they stay? Exploring the reasons why homeless Polish migrant workers remain in a state of prolonged destitution in post-Brexit Britain | Michele Lancione |
| Selam Robi | swrobi1@sheffield.ac.uk | Industrial park cities in Ethiopia | Tom Goodfellow |
| Patricia Schappo | pschappo1@sheffield.ac.uk | Street markets as multi-purpose development strategies for urban environments | Melanie Lombard |
| Sri Suryani | ssuryani1@sheffield.ac.uk | Displacements and urban water infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia | Michele Lancione |
| Chao Wang | cwang47@sheffield.ac.uk | The involvement of Chinese civil society in environmental planning | Steve Connelly |
| Yu-Tung Wu | YWu165@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing and intergenerational inequality in the Taipei metropolitan area | Ryan Powell |
| Said Zaaneen | SYSZaaneen1@sheffield.ac.uk | Urban refugee camps in the Gaza Strip | Tom Goodfellow |
| Nancy Marcia L. Wilson | nmwilson1@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing discrimination in the Sheffield metropolitan area, 1960s to the present | Tom Goodfellow |
| Nan Wang | nwang30@sheffield.ac.uk | Understanding the role of peer-to-peer accommodation in disrupting the neighbourhood: A new form of gentrification | Stephen Hincks |
| Mónica Martin Grau | mmartingrau1@sheffield.ac.uk | Urban frictions: prosperity turns within Nairobi’s water tinkering practices | Vanesa Castan Broto |
| Michael Marshall | mmarshall7@sheffield.ac.uk | Financialisation, regulation and asset management in English housing associations | Stephen Hincks |
| Mateus Lira | mateus.lira@sheffield.ac.uk | The politics of resettlement and occupations in Brazil | Jonathan Silver |