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