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Geography
Part of the School of Environment and Development (SED)

Current Geography PhD students

Kathryn Adamson
The response of Mediterranean river basins to Pleistocene glaciation.
Supervisors: Jamie Woodward and Phil Hughes.
Constantinos Antonopoulos
The evolving interface between port-city and global production networks. A case study of Piraeus, Athens.
Supervisors: Martin Hess and Neil Coe.
Janice Astbury
Inviting landscapes - engaging citizens with ecosystem services for sustainable urban infrastructure.
Supervisors: James Evans and Joanne Tippett.
Jason Beery
Constellations of power: the state, capital and nature in the uneven production of outer space.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Noel Castree.
Alexandra Buckland-Wright
Transnational retail in developing economies: Regulating the transformation of retail markets.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Martin Hess.
Beth Cole
High resolution remote sensing for landscape scale restoration of peatland.
Supervisors:
Julia McMorrow and Martin Evans.
Dawn Cole
Housing biographies and the construction of 'liveable' places.
Supervisors: Kevin Ward and Mark Jayne
Alan Davis
Chinese labour migration to the UK.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Kevin Ward
Robin De La Motte
Waterworks: public participation, social capital and co-production in the (peri) urban water sector in Latin America.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Diana Mitlin.
Suraya Fazel-Ellahi
Water, Power and Reverse Osmosis Technology: water crises and solutions in the coastal towns of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw.
Lisa Ficklin
The Political Ecology of Environmental Crisis: Neoliberalising Nature and Political Identity in Nicaragua.
Supervisors: Noel Castree and Rosaleen Duffy.
Ralitsa Hiteva
Geographies of energy governance – negotiating low carbon and energy secure futures in the European Union.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Sally Randles.
Robert James
The Address as a Special Case in Geographical Referencing.
Supervisors: Chris Perkins, Martin Dodge and Robert Barr.
Sarah Kneen
The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition of north-west Europe: climatic change, human impact and the adoption of agriculture.
Supervisors: Jeff Blackford and Pete Ryan.
Lazaros Karaliotas
“There is no such thing as ‘The Port of Balkans’: Urban Élite Configurations and Post-Political Politics in Thessaloniki’s Port Restructuring”
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika.
Guy C.K. Leung (Chun Kai Leung)
Geographical political economy of natural gas industry in China.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Neil Coe.
Gail Millin-Chalabi
A multisensor approach to monitor moorland fires and post fire impact for the Peak District National Park
Supervisors: Julia McMorrow and Clive Agnew.
Miranda Morgan
Women, gender and protest: contesting oil palm plantation expansion in Sambas district, Indonesia.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Noel Castree.
Piotr Niewiadomski
Interdependencies between the corporate growth and spatial expansion of international hotel groups.
Supervisors: Martin Hess and Neil Coe.
Genevieve Potts
Investigating Late-Holocene Climatic Fluctuations Using Palaeoecology in the Orkney Islands.
Supervisors: Jeff Blackford and James Rothwell.
Laura Pottinger
Ethical consumption and alternative food movements.
Supervisors: Noel Castree and Mark Jayne.
Hugo Romero
A Political Ecology of the HidroAysen Hydropower Project in Chilean Patagonia.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Tony Bebbington.
Brian Rosa
Beneath the arches:  Re-appropriating the spaces of infrastructure in Manchester
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and James Evans.
Emma Shuttleworth
Sediment and pollutant dynamics in degraded peatlands using geochemical and geophysical tracers.
Supervisors: Martin Evans and James Rothwell.
Cynthia Skelhorn
Evaluation of the impacts of urban greenspace on building energy consumption.
Supervisors: Sarah Lindley and Professor Geoff Levermore.
Andrew Speak
Quantification of the urban microclimate modification properties of green roofs.
Supervisors: Claire Smith and Sarah Lindley.
Andrew Stimson
Fluvial Carbon dynamics in restored peatland catchments: implications for water supply.
Supervisors: Martin Evans, Tim Allott and Steve Boult.
Joanna Tantanasi
Adaptive governance for carbon sequestration: The case of the peatlands in the Peak District National Park.
Supervisors: James Evans and Clive Agnew.
Isaac Tchuwa
Hydro-social Permutations of Water Commodification in Blantyre City.
Supervisors: Gavin Bridge and Maria Kaika.
Craig Thomas
Exploring the practice of PM10 modelling and monitoring and its translation into air quality management.
Supervisors: Noel Castree and James Evans.
Georgios Tzimas
Understanding local geographies of retail development and retail regulation: Corporate strategies of multiple food retailers in three medium sized cities in Greece.
Supervisor: Martin Hess and Neil Coe.
Mark Usher
Governing the hydrosocial cycle in Singapore: Tapping into the “intelligent island” discourse.
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw.
Nadia von Benzon
Learning Disabled Childhoods and Experiences of the Natural Environment.
Jennifer Watts
The Institutional Context for Temporary Staffing: a European cross-national comparative study.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Kevin Ward.
Jana Wendler
Exploring the role of play and playfulness in environmental efforts and sustainability engagement
Supervisors: James Evans and Mark Jayne
Rose Wilkinson
Quaternary vegetation dynamics in Montenegro through multiple glacial-interglacial cycles.
Supervisors: Jeff Blackford, Jamie Woodward and Phil Hughes.
Yue Wang
Exploring retail transnational corporations (TNCs) and supply chains transformation in Shanghai, China.
Supervisors: Neil Coe and Martin Hess.
Yu-hin Wong, Sampson
Where the wild things were: urban (bio)political ecology of live poultry in Hong Kong.
Supervisors: Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw.