Current PhD projects

GDSJ (Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice Research Group)

• Harri Hudson: Sanitising a City? Visualising the intersect between flooding, urbanisation and sanitation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Simon Malyon: Chasing Gold Stars: The Precarious Working Lives of Rural Migrants on Food Delivery Platforms in Beijing, China
• Alexander Hardy: Global pioneers? e-Estonia and everyday cyber security
• Jasmine Joanes: Seeing Red: Alter-geopolitics of menstrual management and activism in the United Kingdom
• Tat In Tam: Through Him, In Him and With Him: the roles of religious associations in the Filipino migrants’ lives in Macau
• Valentine Gavard-Suaire: Human trafficking, Modern Slavery and Vietnamese migrants in the UK: Feminist geopolitics of a transnational protection agenda
• Liling Xu: China's Geopolitical Imaginations of the Arctic
• Katharine Vann: Rupununi re-collections: historical photographs, Indigenous  knowledge and heritage in Guyana
• Viveca Mellegård: Indigo dyeing for sustainable livelihoods and landscapes: ethnobotanical knowledge and material practices in West Bengal
• Evie Gilbert: Speculative Futures of Work for Cambodia's Female Garment Workers: Educational Inequalities and Women's Economic Empowerment in Industry 4.0
• Can Emre Memis: Post-pandemic cities
• Kayla De Freitas: Changing practices of Indigenous fire use and implications for management in South Rupununi, Guyana
• Alice Reynolds: The finacialisation of student housing: A Dublin case study
• Madelaine Joyce: Within the Boundary Zone: Enlivening the Inter-Korean Borderland

SCHG (Social, Cultural & Historical Geography)

• Kimberley Walker: John Eliot Howard’s cinchona collections and the making of Victorian quinology
• Jihane Dyer: Wearing the City: Fashion and Clothing in the Curation of Urban History
• Emily Hopkins: Creating the Ordinary City: The Making of Place and Community in Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021
• William Barnes: Getting personal with work: The impact of homeworking,  self-employment and creative work on wellbeing
• Rhys Gazeres De Baradieux: From the street to the stadium and back again: The neoliberalisation of skateboarding following its inclusion into the Olympic Programme.
• Jack Morton: Playing the precarity game: The Challenges of Sustainable Freelance Labour in the UK Videogames industry.
• Indira Lemouchi: Voicing the ecopolitical agencies of children through participatory creative methods
• Harriet Coppard: Staying With The In-Between: what can creative practices tell us about play?
• Flora Parrott: Both without and within: Cave exploration as a guide to knowledge making.
• Teresa Pinto: Heritage and Conservation in the work of the Greater London Council: Reimagining London 1965-1986
• Saskia Papadakis: Northerners in London
• Rachael Utting: Collecting Leviathan: curiosity collecting and the British Southern Whale Fishery (1775-1860)
• Francesca Kubicki: Cultivating a paper world: paper plant fibre collection and innovation c.1847-1914
• Rachel Tyler: Skipped Stiches: Palimpsestuous maps of garments, and lives of East London Fashion workers in the 21st Century.
• Roselle Knowles: Creating therapeutic landscapes
• Angela Chan: Creative Clusters as an Instrument of Inclusive Innovation
• Stefano Carnelli: Visualising Intangible Sacred Spaces: The Materialities and and Ephemerality of Orthodox Jewish Ritual Enclosures in London and New York.
• Christina Hourigan: The making of a global arboretum: The case of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• Cynthia Anyadi: Mapping death, migration, and material culture: A case study of Igbo Nigerians
• Bethany Williamson: Translating place: orthography and the problem of place names at the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1919
• Una Helle: Spirits of Place: thinking through subterranean subjectivities
• Eva Barbarossa: Caves, language and the subsurface
• Richard Chambliss: Earthworks: Toward a Geophysical Art and the Articulation of Geology of Knowledge
• Bethan Worthington: Arts of Climate Reconstruction
• Alice Reynolds: The finacialisation of student housing: A Dublin case study
• Madelaine Joyce: Within the Boundary Zone: Enlivening the Inter-Korean Borderland
• Viveca Mellegard: Indigo dyeing for sustainable livelihoods and landscapes: ethnobotanical knowledge and material practices in West Bengal

• Daniel Parkes: Investigating the cause and the structure of abrupt climate change events in Marine Oxygen Isotope stage 11
• Amy Walsh: Demonstrating the potential of an inter annual record to improve our understanding of the interplay between climate change, human activity, and landscape evolution
• Laura Hemmingham: Dietary Flexibility, Niche Differentiation and Ecological Resilience in the Quaternary Cervidae
• Emma Cooper: Patagonian Ice Sheet Deglaciation and palaeolake evolution (44 – 46°S).
• Alice Carter-Champion: The drivers and responses of North Atlantic climatic variability during the Younger Dryas
• Mollie Mills: Rescuing the red dog: using the Pleistocene fossil record of the dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) to inform future conse
• Alexander Clark: Multiproxy quantification of deglacial dynamics of the NW Irish Ice Sheet
• Joshua Pike: Extending the varve record for Central Patagonia: Assessing glacier dynamics and responses during the last deglaciation
• Laura Boyall: Palaeo-evidence for policy: reconstructing decadal climate variability in Europe to inform climate policy decisions
• Daniel Gallagher: Long term interactions between vegetation, fire and human impact in Guyana.
• Naima Harman: Extending coupled cryptotephra and palaeoclimatic analysis of marine cores to the Eastern Mediterranean over the last ~200ka
• Shuang Zhang: Developing a multi-methods dating framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region over late Quaternary
• Thomas Vandyk: Neorproterozoic Glaciation from the bottom up: Striated pavements of the Cryogenian to Ediacaran Periods
• Bethan Worthington: Arts of Climate Reconstruction
• Kayla De Freitas: Changing practices of Indigenous fire use and implications for management in South Rupununi, Guyana