PhD Research Students

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Enoch Adranyi	Toward inclusive and responsible artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Ghana	Professor Henrice Altink Professor Lindsay Stringer
Omran Al-Abri	Neutrality of Omani Foreign Policy	Professor Graeme Davies Dr Alejandro Pena
Mehmet Ali Akkus	Comparison of Current Models and Practices of Public Diplomacy and a New Model Proposal for Public Diplomacy: Fair Power	Dr Matthew Whiting Professor Graeme Davies
Maryam Al-Mahmoud	Qatar's Mediation with Non-State Armed Groups and Its Impact on Small State Soft Power: A Comparative Study of the Taliban and Hamas Cases	Dr Jacob Eriksson Dr Gyda Sindre
Eduardo Álvarez-Vanegas	Tracing Fragmentation and Cohesion: The Cases of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army's (FARC-EP) Breakaways During the Colombian Peace Process (2012 - 2016)	Professor Anastasia Shesterinina Professor Nina Caspersen
Kűbra Aslan	Turkish Parliamentary opposition under single party governments: consensual or confrontational conduct of legislative process?	Dr Dan Keith Dr Nuray Aradici
Cathryn Auplish	Transformative Research on Alcohol Industry Policy and Science	Professor Tony Heron Professor Jappe Eckhardt
Lauren Avery	Approaches to Disability Activism: community networks of self advocates and mothers of children with disabilities in Brazil	Professor Bryony Beresford
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Charlotte Bagshaw	Child labour in Malawi	Professor Jean Grugel Professor Henrice Altink
Anna Bailie	A Politics of Isolation and Empowerment: Young People's Mental Health on Social Media	Dr Alex Hall Dr Simon Popple
Victoria Isabela Frois Borrero	Between Support and Resistance: Civil Society's Response to Populist Advances in Latin America	Jean Grugel Saba Joshi
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Burak Caliskan	Enclaves in Fergana Valley	Professor Nina Caspersen Dr Alex Hall
Rodrigo Duque Estrada Campos	The New Christian Militarism: Evangelical Base-Building with the Police Forces in Brazil	Dr Alejandro Pena
Yujue Cao	WHO and Global Health Governance	Professor Jappe Eckhardt
Stella Chiemela	Food security, climate change and conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria	Professor Lindasy Stringer Professor Andrew Dougill
Kondwani Chikadza	Aid Fragmentation and State Capacity to Steer Economic Policy - A Case Study of the Agrictultural Sector Wide Approach in Malawi	Dr Peg Murray-Evans Dr Judith Krauss
Sophie Cogan	Just Hope? Exploring Energy Justice and Climate Ethics in Relation to Nuclear Fusion	Dr Julia Touza-Montero Dr Simona Davidescu Dr Eva Heims
Megan Connolly	Public Attitudes to Fusion Energy: A Qualitative Study in the UK	Dr Simona Davidescu Dr Karen Parkhill
Grace Cooper	The Unenfranchised: Political exclusion and the parliamentary representation of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK parliament	Professor Simon Parker Dr John Evemy
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Shaswati Das	Why violence prevails: Understanding jihadism in Kashmir	Professor Graeme Davies Dr Gyda Sindre
Virginia De Biasio	Natural Resources Justice and Capabilities	Dr Gabriele Badano Professor Martin O'Neill
Alice Dunn	Gendering Representation, Representing Gender	Dr Alasia Nuti Professor Monica Brito-Vieira
Kieran Dunn	Rectifying Historical Injustice: Racial Injustice and Political Methodology	Professor Matthew Festenstein Dr Alasia Nuti
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Olusegun Ehinfun	Transboundary Effects and Water Governance in the Context of African Nation-State(s) - A Case Study of the Lake Chad Basin Area (LCBA).	Professor Tony Heron Dr Richard Friend
Fawzia Ehsani	Exploring perplexities of Capacity Development Initiatives in Post-Conflict Countries: Examining Afghanistan’s civil aviation sector	Professor Nina Caspersen Dr Claire Smith
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Marco Franzoi	Fish futures: the governance of trade-based consumption and mechanisms for promoting net biodiversity gain	Professor Tony Heron Dr Chris West Dr Simon Croft
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Ayse Serra Girit	The Politics of Counter-Terrorism: A Study of the UK Government and Media's Framing of the Prevent Strategy	Professor Graeme Davies
Julio Galindo Gutiérrez	Aligning private investment and climate outcomes: The challenge of 'greening' the Finance for Development agenda	Professor Neil Carter Dr Liam Clegg
Edward Goodall	Regional policy in Conservative England (2010-17): the role of institutional and political factors	Dr Liam Clegg Professor Simon Parker
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Marcia Hamzat		Dr Nick Ritchie
Rachel Headings	Political ecology of community food resilience: exploring the impact of circular economy policies on farmer livelihoods in the UK	Dr Jon Ensor Professor Tony Heron
Mir Dosteen Hoth	Political Economy and Elite Capture: Poor Service Delivery in Balochistan, Pakistan	Professor Martin Smith Dr Peg Murray-Evans
Ge Huang	Comparing Foreign Worker Policies in Japan and South Korea: a theory of the functional imperatives of the state	Professor Simon Parker Professor Louise Haagh
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Rai Mansoor Imtiaz Khan	Why do people (voters) stick with political parties rejected by ‘political guardians’ in establishmentarian democracies?	Professor Indrajit Roy Dr Rob Aitken
Diana Infante-Vargas	Mobility, gender and its context in Saltillo, Mexico; an analysis into informal transport systems through a gender lens.	Dr Harriet Gray Dr Joshua Kirschner
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Mohammed Kamal Jibril	The nexus of climate change, communal conflicts, and Poverty in Northern Ghana: Experiences and perceptions from local communities	Professor Lindsay Stringer Dr Rebecca Tapscott
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Mamoon Khawar	Understanding the Role of Warlords in Post-War State-Building: The Role of Warlords in Afghanistan's Post-2001 State-Building Process	Dr Claire Smith Dr Jacob Eriksson Dr José Ciro Martínez
Young-Gil Kim	Unveiling Land Disputes in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste: New types of land disputes, varied formal-informal institutional relationships in the land institution between urban and rural, and the land institution’s different mediation mechanisms by the location	Professor Paul Gready Professor Louise Haagh
Will Kitson	Understanding the Differing Political Performances of Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties: A Statecraft Approach	Dr Adam Fusco Dr Dan Keith
Mikhail Kupriyanov	Critical Constructivist Analysis of the Russian Strategic Culture and Strategic Weapons	Dr Alex Hall Dr Nick Ritchie
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Edoardo Lavezzo	Türkiye’s behaviour as a Middle Power: navigating the EU-China competition in energy diplomacy	Professor Jappe Eckhardt Dr Nick Ritchie
Tonghua Li	The high politics of food: investigating the intersection between geopolitics, food security and environmental sustainability	Professor Tony Heron Dr Jonathan Green
Tallulah Lines	Art and Security in Feminicidal Cultures: how women artists and activists prefigure feminist security in Oaxaca and Quintana Roo, Mexico	Professor Sara de Jong Dr Alejandro Pena
Qingyang (Michael) Liu	Rethinking the Tolerant Locke	Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle Professor Tim Stanton
Weitan Liu	Harmonious or radical? Messaging Strategy of Western Politicians on Twitter Towards Trade Relations with China	Dr Dan Keith Dr Peg Murray-Evans
Kate Long	Common ground for a common future? Exploring dynamics of hybridity in environmental democracy	Professor Neil Carter Dr Alfred Moore
Yael Lopez Torres	A comparative study of security policy design and implementation from the bottom-up: Can the policies in Colombia and Ecuador be adapted to Mexico?	Professor Martin Smith Professor Louise Haagh
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Zhihao Ma	Identity and Political Participation among First-Generation Immigrants from Mainland China in the UK	Professor Graeme Davies Professor Simon Parker
Jesse Machin	Beyond existing theories of citizenship: towards securing the rights of stateless groups through legal self-determination	Professor Matthew Festenstein Dr Alasia Nuti
Marynka Marquez	Caught between Universal Standards and Local Contexts: York as a Human Rights City and the Search for Human Rights Alternatives	Professor Paul Gready Dr Alex Hall
Thomas Mcwilliam	Development Banking in the 21^st Century: New Institutions, Old Paradigms and the Future of the Liberal Economic Order	Dr Liam Clegg Professor Jappe Eckhardt
Alexandros Mitsionis	Asean-China Free Trade Agreement and Indonesia's importance: Implications for regional-global order	Professor Tony Heron Dr Peg Murray-Evans
Luqman Muraina	Decolonisation of Development Studies Teaching and Learning in Nigeria Universities	Professor Sara de Jong Dr Eleanor Brown
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Lisa Newsome	A Critical Examination of the Discourse and Practice of Human Security in Haiti	Professor Tony Heron Professor Paul Gready
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Eugenia Obeng-Akrofi	The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Role of Fusion on the Climate Change Debate	Professor Jappe Eckhardt Professor Julia Touza-Montero
Fotoh (Abah) Ofon	The political economy of food security in Gulf of Guinea	Professor Tony Heron Dr Samarthia Thankappan
Kennedy Okparaolu	Bringing cultural Relativism into the New Regionalism Approach: A case of Africa	Professor Tony Heron Dr Peg Murray-Evans
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Maro Pantazidou	Re-imagining work: The politics of time and care	Prof Paul Gready Dr Andrew Wallace Leeds
Vithul Payangott	Art of the state and false convergence in national financial systems towards 'market-based banking': A post-crisis analysis of advanced economies	Dr Liam Clegg Professor Nicole Lindstrom
Rong Pu	The Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Aid within Small Island Developing States	Professor Tony Heron Dr Saba Joshi
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James Reeves	The Left's approach to mobilising support for the climate crisis	Professor Neil Carter Dr Pavlos Vasilopoulos
Justin Robinson	The emotional substrates of environmental preferences	Professor Neil Carter Dr Pavlos Vasilopoulos
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Almog Yoana Sade	How the Climate Change Affects the Tax Law System and Corporations Around Europe and Globally	Professor Jappe Eckhardt Professor Julia Touza-Montero
David Salazar Gorjon	The Role of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Implementation of Climate Change and Energy Transition Policies in Mexico	Dr Marco Sakai Professor Simon Parker
Antoinette Saxer	The Radical Legacy of Hans Baron – Civic Humanism between Weimar Germany and Renaissance Florence	Professor Tim Stanton Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle
Aasim Sheikh	Interactions of Global Activism and Production: Determining Stakeholder Outcomes	Professor Jappe Eckhardt Dr Tom O'Brien
George Shepherd	Green-Extractivism in Latin America: The Political Economy of Lithium Extraction in Bolivia and Chile	Professor Jean Grugel Dr Alejandro Pena
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Megan Tarrant	The role of environmental knowledge in rights-based approaches to conservation	Professor Neil Carter Professor Lindsay Stringer
Camila Cavalcanti Teixeira	Struggle and Law: Human Rights and Social Movements for Racial Equality and Indigenous Rights	Dr Alejandro Pena Professor Paul Gready
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Fazal Wahad	Counterterrorism policies of Pakistan; How a war generation survives and resists the armed conflict in the Tribal districts?	Dr Jacob Erikkson
Susannah Williams	Connecting gendered human and environmental injustice in the fashion industry: The intersections between feminised forms of exploitation in the production of clothing	Professor Sara de Jong Dr Judith Krauss
Melissa Williams	We are here to stay Inna Inglan: The role of Immigration Legislation in the 'Un-Homing' of British, Windrush Descendants	Professor Sara de Jong Professor Simon Parker
Jake Wood	Same rules, Different games: The political economy of macroprudential policy in emerging market economies.	Dr Liam Clegg Dr John Evemy
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Yuhan Xiao	The internal dynamics of Chinese politics: a case study on the developments in the railway industry in the last 30 years	Professor Jappe Eckhardt Professor Martin Smith
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Ziyu Yan	Vulnerability and Resilience in the Global Food System: A case study of Egypt	Professor Tony Heron Dr José Ciro Martínez
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Yihui Zhang	Effects of government's use of social media: a comparison between British and European official accounts about Brexit	Professor Graeme Davies Dr Pavlos Vasilopoulos
Qinghua (Bella) Zhu	U.S.' Afghan Policies, Actions and Effects Under the Perspective of Unified/Divided Government: 2001-2021	Professor Graeme Davies