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Search for our most recently awarded PhDs from 2017 onwards

Current Research Students

2022

Name

Supervisors

Title

Thesis

Tania Guerrero RiosUsing financialised housing as a planning instrument: the impact of urban containment policies on affordable housing in Mexico City

UCL Discovery

Jack Layton    Urban public sports facilities: social infrastructure and the public life of cities    

UCL Discovery

Nilufer Sari Aslam    Inferring Trip Purposes from Travel Smart Card Data    

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Joanna TindallLacustrine oxygen isotopes as tracers of past climate change in NW Europe    

UCL Discovery

Eleri PritchardNew approaches for exploring signal crayfish invasion biology and ecological impacts in headwater streams    

UCL Discovery

2021

Name

Supervisors

Title

Thesis

Lo Lanfear    Navigating gender diverse worlds assembled upon binary expectations: Investigating the experiences of trans people living in Britain    

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Damian Oyarzun ValenzuelaClimate Change and Air Pollution Relationships. Lessons from a Subtropical Desert Region    

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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    

UCL Discovery

Jihyun LeeGoing global? International students, UK higher education and the pursuit of an international career    

UCL Discovery

Evelina Gambino(Re)producing the logistical future: ethnography, infrastructure and the making of Georgia’s global connections    

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2020

Name

Supervisors

Title

Thesis

Ffion Carney  

 

Mobility insights through consumer data: a case study of concessionary bus travel in the West Midlands    

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Lucy DablinDesigning silvopastoral systems for the Amazon: a framework for the evaluation of native species    

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Alix GreenAssessing the impact of environmental pressures on seagrass Blue Carbon stocks in the British Isles

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James BrennanNew techniques and insights for burned area monitoring from remote sensing data    

UCL Discovery

Tim Rains    Big Consumer Data: Understanding shopping patterns using loyalty cards    

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Suriyah Bi    Marriage and masculinities in motion: Examining the migrant husband’s experience in Birmingham’s British Pakistani community    

UCL Discovery

Khatereh Eghdamian    Rethinking 'Religious Identity' in Refugee 'Integration': An examination into representations and experiences of Syrian 'Religious Minority' refugees in Berlin, Germany    

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Lioba Hirsch    Antiblackness and global health: placing the 2014-15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone in the colonial wake    

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Jonathan Lewis-Phillips    Contribution of pond management to local bird abundance and diversity on farms in lowland England

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Murray MckenzieComing together and apart in Heiqiao Village, Beijing: urban life, artistic practices, and the making of social worlds    

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2019

Name

Supervisors

Title

Thesis

Shaun Teo

 

Symbiotic states and progressive projects: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation

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Thien Vinh NguyenTranscalar Urban Governance: Planning and Development in the “Oil-City” of Sekondi-Takoradi, GhanaUCL Discovery
Balamurugan SoundararajEstimating Footfall From Passive Wi-Fi Signals: Case Study with Smart Street Sensor Project    UCL Discovery
Adam ByrneThe Origins, Design and Implementation of the UK Climate Change Act 2008    UCL Discovery
Jim Hudson“Not alone and not in a home!”: The negotiation of later life as a cohousing group in BerlinUCL Discovery
Karlo LugomerThe Composition and Functioning of Retail Areas    UCL Discovery
Alex MaLabour migration, remittances and development in the Myanmar-Singapore corridor    UCL Discovery
Richard Walton“The pond pollinator pantry”: Assessing how pond management influences pollinators in the UK farmland landscapeUCL Discovery
David SeddonThe Climate Controls and Process of Groundwater Recharge in a Semi-Arid Tropical Environment: Evidence from the Makutapora Basin, Tanzania    UCL Discovery
Matheus Boni VicariOn leaf and wood separation from Terrestrial LiDAR data    UCL Discovery
Pooya GhoddousiDimorphic diasporas: Assembling identity, community belonging, and collective action among Iranians in London    UCL Discovery
Richard MazebediTrophic characteristics of aquatic habitats with different flooding regimes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana    UCL Discovery
Frances BrillThe Developer in Question: a comparative analysis of real estate developers in Modderfontein, Johannesburg and London’s Royal Docks    UCL Discovery
Daniel ChadwickInvasion of the signal crayfish, 'Pacifastacus leniusculus', in England: implications for the conservation of the white-clawed crayfish, 'Austropotamobius pallipes'    UCL Discovery
Poppy HardingEcosystem Responses to Abrupt Climatic and Environmental Change in Southern Siberia during the Late Quaternary    UCL Discovery
Michael NattrassCommonsensical Understandings of Everyday Infrastructures for Cycling in Car Dominated Transport Environments: Rule-Making, Rule-Breaking and Social Justification    UCL Discovery
Emily SmithConduits of Invasive Species into the UK: The Angling Route?    UCL Discovery
Alexander KochEarth System impact of historical and future reforestation    UCL Discovery
Soledad Martinez RodriguezMay I Walk with You? Exploring Urban Inequality in Everyday Walking Practices in Santiago de Chile    UCL Discovery
Andrew PapworthAn analysis of the food security of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua    UCL Discovery
Jennifer AdamsQuality assurance for biophysical Earth-Observation (EO) products of vegetation flux and structure    UCL Discovery
Tom BrocketBetween East Coast and West Bank: An ethnographic study of second-generation Palestinian-Americans’ relationship to Palestine and Palestinianness    UCL Discovery
Sara MartinsEcohydrology of temporary ponds    UCL Discovery
Anastasia UshakovaGenerating Insights from Smart Meter Data: Challenges and Opportunities    UCL Discovery
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2018

Name

Supervisors

Title

Thesis

Fatema JahanGender and agency: clothing consumption practices of women factory workers in BangladeshUCL Discovery
Lucien GeorgesonRedefining and measuring the global green economy: tracking green economy transformations using transactional dataUCL Discovery
Alyson LloydThe applications of loyalty card data for social scienceUCL Discovery
Sarah KunzThe ‘Expatriate’: The Postcolonial Politics of a Migration CategoryUCL Discovery
Hannah Fair'Not Drowning but Fighting': Faith, Activism, and Climate Change Narratives in the Pacific IslandsUCL Discovery
Niranjana RameshInfrastructures with a pinch of salt: comparative techno-politics of desalination in Chennai and LondonUCL Discovery
Amanda Robinson

 

Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE AsiaUCL Discovery
Daniel LapworthHydrogeological responses to deep groundwater pumping in the Indo-Gangetic Basin: Evidence from environmental tracers

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Isabel BishopUnderstanding the habitat and decline of Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & Schmidt in the UK using ecology and paleoecologyUCL Discovery
Frank GermanMigration, work and housing in Northampton, 1841-71UCL Discovery
Mandy RobinsonUncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE AsiaUCL Discovery
Michael SchembriAspects of embayed beach morphology in a micro-tidal setting in MaltaUCL Discovery
Guy LansleyBig data: geodemographics and representationUCL Discovery
Sam PageA year in Labour: rethinking political parties, campaigns and elections through assemblage and affectUCL Discovery
Jessica DurkotaGroundwater Ecology: Invertebrate Community Distribution across the Benthic, Hyporheic and Phreatic Habitats of a Chalk Aquifer in Southeast EnglandUCL Discovery
Cecil SagoeEnglish planning and governmentality: the case of the London Legacy Development CorporationUCL Discovery
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2017

Name

Supervisors

Title

Thesis

Jennifer AdamsMultiproxy reconstructions of recent environmental change: understanding the ecological response of shallow lakes within the Selenga River basin, southeast Siberia, to anthropogenic and natural disturbancesUCL Discovery
Hannah Robson

 

Causes of decline of common scoter (Melanitta nigra) in north Scotland: evidence from palaeolimnologyUCL Discovery
Myfanwy TaylorContested urban economies: representing and mobilising London's diverse economyUCL Discovery
Samuel BartonAlienation and Authenticity in Brixton: An ethnography of a changing neighbourhoodUCL Discovery
Alvaro Sanchez JimenezUrban crises across the North-South divide: A comparative study of institutional transformations and urban policy responses in Valencia and Mar del PlataUCL Discovery
Emily Alderton“Ghost ponds”: Resurrecting lost ponds and species to assist aquatic biodiversity conservationUCL Discovery
Andrew BurtNew 3D measurements of forest structureUCL Discovery
Clare DuncanMangrove forest ecosystem services: Biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation and resilience to climate changeUCL Discovery
Alistair LeakApplications of new forms of data to demographicsUCL Discovery
Michel WortmannAdaptation and implementation of the European, hydrological model SWIM to arid, glacier and snow melt water dominated catchments in NW ChinaUCL Discovery
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