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Registered PhD Students

Discover the current activities of research graduates in the Department of Environment & Geography

 

A-G

Student Area of Research

Anar Abtalibov 

  • Geography
  • Environment
  • Geochemistry
  • Geology

Obroma O Agumagu

  • Climate Change
  • Impact Assessment
  • Climate Model.
  • Climate Risks. 
  • Social Response.
Godwin Aigbe
  • Global gas flaring policies governance
  • Environmental Policies
  • Health Safety and Environment
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 
Yasmeen Alazmi
  • Environmental attitudes 
  • Socio-demographics factors
  • Geographical factors
  • Personal well-being influence
  • Sustainable communities 
Ohood Alharbi
  • Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote sensing.
  • Modelling Groundwater.
  • Climate change.
  • Future water demand.
Mashael Almalki 
  • Urban Geography
  • Urbanization
  • Land cover and land use
  • Urban expansion
  • GIS and Remote Sensing
Abdullah Almehmadi  
Nahum Ashfield
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Uptake and Fate Modelling
  • Soil Science
Elaine Azzopardi  
William Barrop (né Jessop)
  • Peatlands
  • Gas Flux and Carbon Storage
  • Botany 
Sarah Belalia  
Alejandra Bouzas Monroy  
Hattie Brunning 
  • Environmental risk assessment
  • Polymer regulation and environmental impacts
  • Water-soluble polymers
  • Environmental fate and exposure modelling
Sam Buckton
  • Societal transformations
  • Transformation-focused evaluation
  • Regenerative social-ecological systems
  • Futures methods (e.g. Three Horizons)
  • 'New economics' beyond capitalism
  • Youth environmental activism
  • Natural history, ecology and nature conservation
Alexandra Burkitt  
Elizabeth Carper  
Banki Thomas Chunwate  
Sophie Cogan
  • Global Energy Justice
  • Nuclear Fusion
  • Climate Change
  • Clean Energy Transitions
Megan Connolly
  • Nuclear Fusion
  • Public Attitudes
  • Low Carbon Energy
  • Future Energy Generation
  • Qualitative Analysis
Joanne Cook
  • Nutrition security
  • Mechanistic crop modelling
  • Climate change impacts on food
  • Ozone impacts on food
Jenny Cudmore
  • Environmental Physics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Numerical Modelling
  • Tsunamis and Storm Surges
  • Mangrove Forests
Rebecca Dunn
  • Blue Carbon
  • Plastic Waste Management and Biodegradation
  • Plant Developmental Gene Evolution

Ségùn Ehinfun

  • Transboundary Effects
  • Environmental Resource and Social Governance (ERG/ESG)
  • Governance and State Capacity
  • Community Solutions and Beneficial Partnerships
  • Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Beth Evans  
Lee Eyre  
Zheng Fang  
Paulina Flores Martinez
  • Global value chains and sustainability risks 
  • International Political Economy and the environment 
  • Environmental economics
  • Environmental policies 
 
Sarah Foster
  • Conservation/Environmental Education
  • Climate Change
  • Biodiversity Loss
  • Pro-Environmental Behaviours
  • Art Integration/EcoArt
Molly Frost
  • Woodland ecology
  • Ecosystem services
  • Invasive species
  • Environmental policy
Sangita Ganesh
  • Conservation Technology
  • Biodiversity
  • Well-Being
  • Environmental Policy
  • Sustainable Development
Anna Gilbert
  • Microplastics
  • Sedimentary archives and chronology establishment
  • Analytical methods
  • Pollution
  • Coastal wetlands
Jey Gnanam
  • Sustainable Tourism 

H-P

Student Area of Research
Rui Han
  • Land use policy
  • Green infrastructure and ecosystem services
  • The relationship between human disturbances and ecosystem resilience
  • Spatial analysis
  • Environmental justice
Ellen Harding-Smith  
Charlie Head
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Microbiology
  • Bacterial Genetics
  • Mass Spectrometry
Rachel Headings
  • Political ecology of community food system resilience: exploring the impact of circular economy policies on farmer livelihoods in the UK. 
Kamal Huseynli
  • Environmental Economics
  • Environmental Policy
  • Energy Transformation
  • Building Net-zero carbon economy
  • Economic Policy
Amieyeofori Ikiriko  
Monica Isukapalli  
Srishti Jain  
Alexander Jardine
  • Multidisciplinary Research
  • Coastal Storms
  • Environmental History
  • Sedimentology
Abdul Kodir
  • Political Ecology
  • Development Studies
  • Environmental Politics
  • Agrarian Change
  • Critical Tourism Studies
Zheng-Hong Kong
  • Environmental Governance
  • Land Use Planning
  • Ecosystem Functions and Services
  • Biodiversity Conservation 
Sarah Laptain
  • Citizen science
  • Participatory science
  • Environmental citizen science
  • Socio-cultural factors
Katie Lee
  • Coastal numerical modelling
  • Coral reef ecology
  • Coral larvae transport
  • Tidal dynamics 
  • Sea level
Marianne Lotter-Jones
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Agricultural policy
  • Ecotoxicology
Sani Matawalle
  • Electrification/Energy Access and Disparities
  • Energy Geography
  • Regional Political Tensions 
Sarah Mullally  
Abby Mycroft
  • Peatland science
  • Soil science
  • Water quality 
  • Analytical methods 
  • Soil gaseous fluxes 
Isabel Navarro Law
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Agricultural policy
  • Biodiversity conservation
Rebecca Newman
  • sustainable livelihoods 
  • scenarios development 
  • African landscapes
  • land cover modelling
  • climate change 
  • ecosystem services 
  • small islands 
Eugenia Obeng-Akrofi

 

  • Climate Change
  • Energy Transitions
  • Fusion Energy
  • Circular Economy
  • Sustainability 
Abah Ofon  
Oluyemi Ojo
  • Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
  • Ecosystem Service Delivery
  • Terrestrial Ecosystem
  • Plants
  • Soil Invertebrates
Suzanne Om
  • Synergy
  • Food Systems 
  • Transformation 
  • Regeneration
 
Pritha Pande
  • SEI-Y 
  • Estimating the impacts of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (aerosol and ozone)
    on rice-wheat cropping rotations in India
 
Sagarmoy Phukan  
Katie Plaisted
  • Chemical Fate and Exposure
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Environmental Science
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biodiversity Loss

Q-Z

Student Area of Research
David Sallazar Gorjon  
Ciara Sanchez Paredes  
Harriet Sleight
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Behaviour of pharmaceuticals in the environment
  • Soil science
  • Ecotoxicology
Chompunut Songkhao
  • Climate change
  • Sustainable Tourism 
  • Marine and coastal areas
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Environmental Policy and plan
Jake Freddie Spong
  • Soil Science
  • Mountain Ecology
  • Belowground Functions/Ecosystem Processes
  • Microbial/Invertebrate/Plant Ecology
  • Climate Change
Emilie Stokeld
  • transboundary climate change impacts
  • agricultural trade flows (focus on soy)
Isla Stubbs
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Uptake and Fate Modelling
  • Soil Science
Megan Tarrant
  • Rights-based conservation
  • Political ecology
  • Environmental justice
  • Participatory monitoring
  • Community-led conservation
Douglas Taylor
  • Social Licence to Operate (SLO)
  • Extractive Industries
  • Renewable Energy
  • Ethics and Governance
  • Employment Equity
  • Financial Reporting and Corporate Communication
 
Isla Thorpe  
Josh Thurston  
Daniel Vorbach
  • Community governance
  • Institutional Bricolage
  • Vanuatu
  • Transdisciplinary collaboration
 
Ying Wang  
James Westfield
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Invasive Plant Species
  • Land Management
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Stakeholder Engagement
Xiao Xiao
  • Microplastics
  • Cadmium
  • Earthworms
  • Soil
  • Toxicity

KM Stott Prize Winners

K.M. Stott prize in Environment-related studies (awarded for the best PhD thesis and defence)

Academic Year Name Thesis Title
2021/22 Kennedy Edeye

Shallow and Mesophotic Communities of the Greater Pemba Channel: Implications for Management and Conservation

2021/22 Robin Loveridge

Beyond Win-Win: Understanding diverse impacts of complex Protected Area governance arrangements on human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness in tropical forests

2020/21  Sarah Knight 

Measuring the relationship between the natural environment and subjective well-being in England' 

2020/21 Graham Rush

Rapid sea-level rise and climate change: lessons from the early Holocene

2019/20

Lucy Mitchell

The influence of environmental variation on individual foraging and habitat selection behaviour of the European nightjar

2019/20

Rosie Lennon

The effects of neonicotinoid seed treatments on farmland birds 

2017/18

Stephanie Osborne

Assessing the impact of ozone pollution on food security using a combined experimental and flux modelling approach

2017/18

Omar Abdullah

Development and Application of Analytical Methods for Understanding the Fate and Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Freshwater Sediments 

2016/17 Abigail Sutton

Leadership in Small-scale Fisheries 

2015/16

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki

Fish and Ships: Impacts of Boat Noise on the Singing Fish, Porichthys notatus

2015/16

Jiahua Guo

Impacts of pharmaceuticals on algal species 

2014/15

Anika Agatz

Consequences of short-term feeding inhibition from exposure to pesticides for individuals and populations of aquatic invertebrates

2014/15

Leigh Howarth

Measuring the effects of Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve

2012/13

Ruth Thurstan