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2022
Tania Guerrero Rios
- Supervisors: Ann Varley, Pushpa Arabindoo
- Title: Using financialised housing as a planning instrument: the impact of urban containment policies on affordable housing in Mexico City
Jack Layton
- Supervisors: Alan Latham, Iain Borden
- Title: Urban public sports facilities: social infrastructure and the public life of cities
Nilufer Sari Aslam
- Supervisors: James Cheshire
- Title: Inferring Trip Purposes from Travel Smart Card Data
Joanna Tindall
- Supervisors: Jonathan Holmes, Ian Candy (Royal Holloway)
- Title: Lacustrine oxygen isotopes as tracers of past climate change in NW Europe
Eleri Pritchard
- Supervisors: Jan Axmacher, Carl Sayer
- Title: New approaches for exploring signal crayfish invasion biology and ecological impacts in headwater streams
2021
Lo Lanfear
- Supervisors: Benjamin Campkin
- Title: Navigating gender diverse worlds assembled upon binary expectations: Investigating the experiences of trans people living in Britain
Damian Oyarzun Valenzuela
- Supervisors: Chris Brierley, Neil Rose
- Title: Climate Change and Air Pollution Relationships. Lessons from a Subtropical Desert Region
Anna Cutmore
- Supervisors: Chronis Tzedakis, Mark Maslin
- Title: Insights into the nature of climate and vegetation changes over the last 28,000 years using combined pollen and leaf-wax biomarker analyses from the SW Iberian Margin
Jihyun Lee
- Supervisors: Simon Marginson, Rachel Brooks
- Title: Going global? International students, UK higher education and the pursuit of an international career
Evelina Gambino
- Supervisors: Andrew Barry, Rachel Brooks
- Title: (Re)producing the logistical future: ethnography, infrastructure and the making of Georgia’s global connections
2020
Ffion Carney
- Supervisors: Paul Longley, Jens Kandt
- Title: Mobility insights through consumer data: a case study of concessionary bus travel in the West Midlands
Lucy Dablin
- Supervisors: Maria Lee, Kevin Fowler
- Title: Designing silvopastoral systems for the Amazon: a framework for the evaluation of native species
Alix Green
- Supervisors: Mark Maslin, Kevin Fowler
- Title: Assessing the impact of environmental pressures on seagrass Blue Carbon stocks in the British Isles
James Brennan
- Supervisors: Mat Disney
- Title: New techniques and insights for burned area monitoring from remote sensing data
Tim Rains
- Supervisors: Paul Longley, James Cheshire
- Title: Big Consumer Data: Understanding shopping patterns using loyalty cards
Suriyah Bi
- Supervisors: Elena Qasmiyeh-Fiddian
- Title: Marriage and masculinities in motion: Examining the migrant husband’s experience in Birmingham’s British Pakistani community
Khatereh Eghdamian
- Supervisors: Claire Dwyer
- Title: Rethinking 'Religious Identity' in Refugee 'Integration': An examination into representations and experiences of Syrian 'Religious Minority' refugees in Berlin, Germany
Lioba Hirsch
- Supervisors: Alan Ingram
- Title: Antiblackness and global health: placing the 2014-15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone in the colonial wake
Jonathan Lewis-Phillips
- Supervisors: Carl Sayer, Jan Axmacher
- Title: Contribution of pond management to local bird abundance and diversity on farms in lowland England
Murray Mckenzie
- Supervisors: Andrew Harris, Matthew Gandy
- Title: Coming together and apart in Heiqiao Village, Beijing: urban life, artistic practices, and the making of social worlds
2019
Shaun Teo
- Supervisors: Andrew Harris, Jennifer Robinson
- Title: Symbiotic states and progressive projects: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation
Thien Vinh Nguyen
- Supervisors: Jennifer Robinson, Tatiana Thieme
- Title: Transcalar Urban Governance: Planning and Development in the “Oil-City” of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Balamurugan Soundararaj
- Supervisors: James Cheshire, Paul Longley
- Title: Estimating Footfall From Passive Wi-Fi Signals: Case Study with Smart Street Sensor Project
Adam Byrne
- Supervisors: Mark Maslin, Andrew Barry
- Title: The Origins, Design and Implementation of the UK Climate Change Act 2008
Jim Hudson
Supervisors: Russell Hitchings, Iqbal Hamiduddin
Title: “Not alone and not in a home!”: The negotiation of later life as a cohousing group in Berlin
Karlo Lugomer
- Supervisors: Paul Longley, James Cheshire
- Title: The Composition and Functioning of Retail Areas
Alex Ma
- Supervisors: Ben Page
- Title: Labour migration, remittances and development in the Myanmar-Singapore corridor
Richard Walton
- Supervisors: Carl Sayer, Jan Axmacher
- Title: “The pond pollinator pantry”: Assessing how pond management influences pollinators in the UK farmland landscape
David Seddon
- Supervisors: Richard Taylor, Kevin Fowler
- Title: The Climate Controls and Process of Groundwater Recharge in a Semi-Arid Tropical Environment: Evidence from the Makutapora Basin, Tanzania
Matheus Boni Vicari
- Supervisors: Mat Disney, Philip Lewis
- Title: On leaf and wood separation from Terrestrial LiDAR data
Pooya Ghoddousi
- Supervisors: Alan Latham, Ben Page
- Title: Dimorphic diasporas: Assembling identity, community belonging, and collective action among Iranians in London
Richard Mazebedi
- Supervisors: Anson Mackay, Vivienne Jones
- Title: Trophic characteristics of aquatic habitats with different flooding regimes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Frances Brill
- Supervisors: Jennifer Robinson, Peter Bishop
- Title: The Developer in Question: a comparative analysis of real estate developers in Modderfontein, Johannesburg and London’s Royal Docks
Daniel Chadwick
- Supervisors: Carl Sayer, Jan Axmacher, Helen Bennion
- Title: Invasion of the signal crayfish, 'Pacifastacus leniusculus', in England: implications for the conservation of the white-clawed crayfish, 'Austropotamobius pallipes'
Poppy Harding
- Supervisors: Mark Maslin, Kevin Fowler
- Title: Ecosystem Responses to Abrupt Climatic and Environmental Change in Southern Siberia during the Late Quaternary
Michael Nattrass
- Supervisors: Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings
- Title: Commonsensical Understandings of Everyday Infrastructures for Cycling in Car Dominated Transport Environments: Rule-Making, Rule-Breaking and Social Justification
Emily Smith
- Supervisors: Helen Bennion, Carl Sayer
- Title: Conduits of Invasive Species into the UK: The Angling Route?
Alexander Koch
- Supervisors: Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis
- Title: Earth System impact of historical and future reforestation
Soledad Martinez Rodriguez
- Supervisors: Andrew Harris, Filipa Wunderlich
- Title: May I Walk with You? Exploring Urban Inequality in Everyday Walking Practices in Santiago de Chile
Andrew Papworth
- Supervisors: Sam Randalls, Mark Maslin
- Title: An analysis of the food security of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua
Jennifer Adams
- Supervisors: Mat Disney, Philip Lewis
- Title: Quality assurance for biophysical Earth-Observation (EO) products of vegetation flux and structure
Tom Brocket
- Supervisors: Caroline Bressey, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
- Title: Between East Coast and West Bank: An ethnographic study of second-generation Palestinian-Americans’ relationship to Palestine and Palestinianness
Sara Martins
- Supervisors: Helene Burningham, Carl Sayer
- Title: Ecohydrology of temporary ponds
Anastasia Ushakova
- Supervisors: Paul Longley, Vyacheslav Mikhaylov
- Title: Generating Insights from Smart Meter Data: Challenges and Opportunities
2018
Fatema Jahan
- Supervisors: Ann Varley
- Title: Gender and agency: clothing consumption practices of women factory workers in Bangladesh
Lucien Georgeson
- Supervisors: Mark Maslin, Mariana Mazzucato
- Title: Redefining and measuring the global green economy: tracking green economy transformations using transactional data
Alyson Lloyd
- Supervisors: James Cheshire, Helena Titheridge
- Title: The applications of loyalty card data for social science
Sarah Kunz
- Supervisors: Tariq Jazeel, Claire Dwyer
- Title: The ‘Expatriate’: The Postcolonial Politics of a Migration Category
Hannah Fair
- Supervisors: Sam Randalls, Ben Page
- Title: 'Not Drowning but Fighting': Faith, Activism, and Climate Change Narratives in the Pacific Islands
Niranjana Ramesh
- Supervisors: Andrew Barry
- Title: Infrastructures with a pinch of salt: comparative techno-politics of desalination in Chennai and London
Amanda Robinson
- Supervisors: Julian Thompson, Jon French
- Title: Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia
Daniel Lapworth
- Supervisors: Richard Taylor, William Burgess
- Title: Hydrogeological responses to deep groundwater pumping in the Indo-Gangetic Basin: Evidence from environmental tracers
Isabel Bishop
- Supervisors: Richard Battarbee, Carl Sayer
- Title: Understanding the habitat and decline of Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & Schmidt in the UK using ecology and paleoecology
Frank German
- Supervisors: Richard Dennis, Hugh Clout
- Title: Migration, work and housing in Northampton, 1841-71
Mandy Robinson
- Supervisors: Julian Thompson, Jonathan French
- Title: Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia
Michael Schembri
- Supervisors: Helene Burningham, Jonathan French
- Title: Aspects of embayed beach morphology in a micro-tidal setting in Malta
Guy Lansley
- Supervisors: Paul Longley, James Cheshire
- Title: Big data: geodemographics and representation
Sam Page
- Supervisors: Jason Dittmer, Alan Ingram
- Title: A year in Labour: rethinking political parties, campaigns and elections through assemblage and affect
Jessica Durkota
- Supervisors: Julian Thompson, Roger Flower
- Title: Groundwater Ecology: Invertebrate Community Distribution across the Benthic, Hyporheic and Phreatic Habitats of a Chalk Aquifer in Southeast England
Cecil Sagoe
- Supervisors: Andrew Harris, Benjamin Clifford
- Title: English planning and governmentality: the case of the London Legacy Development Corporation
2017
Jennifer Adams
- Supervisors: Neil Rose, Anson Mackay
- Title: Multiproxy reconstructions of recent environmental change: understanding the ecological response of shallow lakes within the Selenga River basin, southeast Siberia, to anthropogenic and natural disturbances
Hannah Robson
- Supervisors: Vivienne Jones
- Title: Causes of decline of common scoter (Melanitta nigra) in north Scotland: evidence from palaeolimnology
Myfanwy Taylor
- Supervisors: Jennifer Robinson, Michael Edwards
- Title: Contested urban economies: representing and mobilising London's diverse economy
Samuel Barton
- Supervisors: Andrew Harris, Adam Drazin
- Title: Alienation and Authenticity in Brixton: An ethnography of a changing neighbourhood
Alvaro Sanchez Jimenez
- Supervisors: Jennifer Robinson, Adam Drazin
- Title: Urban crises across the North-South divide: A comparative study of institutional transformations and urban policy responses in Valencia and Mar del Plata
Emily Alderton
- Supervisors: Carl Sayer, Jan Axmacher
- Title: “Ghost ponds”: Resurrecting lost ponds and species to assist aquatic biodiversity conservation
Andrew Burt
- Supervisors: Mat Disney, Simon Lewis
- Title: New 3D measurements of forest structure
Clare Duncan
- Supervisors: Julian Thompson, Nathalie Pettorelli (ZSL), Jurgenne Primavera, Heather Koldewey
- Title: Mangrove forest ecosystem services: Biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation and resilience to climate change
Alistair Leak
Supervisors: Paul Longley, James Cheshire
Title: Applications of new forms of data to demographics
Michel Wortmann
Supervisors: Julian Thompson
Title: Adaptation and implementation of the European, hydrological model SWIM to arid, glacier and snow melt water dominated catchments in NW China