Current PhD Research Topics

Topics in the area of Development and Environment

• Salma Abbasi (S.Abbasi@rhul.ac.uk) : Gender, ICT and development in Islamic countries
• Neelopal Adri (neelopal.adri.2010@rhul.ac.uk):
• Caitlin Bentley : Civil Society and Bilateral Donors: technologies for reporting and accountability
• Andrew Brooks : Riches from Rags or Persistent Poverty in Mozambique? Inequality and the Transnational Second Hand Clothing Trade
• Paolo Brunello : ICT4E in Burundi
• Andrea Burris :  Neoliberal Discourses of Creativity and the Dvision of Labour between “East” and “West” in ICT production
• David Chapman : Energy Security for Small Island States and the Role of Sustainable Energy Technologies and Energy Policy: A Bermuda Case Study
• David Crespo : Mobile Phones for eHealth in Rural Areas
• Umar Haira'u : Application of GIS and Remote Sensing technologies in predicting Human contributions to gully formation and development in semi-arid Kaduna, northern Nigeria
• Anna Heywood : Clever Togs: Investigating the ethical consumption of school uniform and the implications of institutional ‘words-deeds gap’ in sustainability and social justice teaching in the UK education system
• Charles Howie : Cooperation and contestation: farmer-state relations in agricultural transformation, An Giang Province, Vietnam
• Lisa Ingwall (Lisa.Ingwall.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk) : Ecosystem services in Guyana: The importance of spatial and temporal scales in a social-ecological context’
• Stephen Jones : Improving local level governance to meet the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation: the case of WaterAid in Mali
• Sorayya Khan : Community Participation in the Management of Malaria in Mopti Region, Mali
• Hayley Leck : Rising to the Adaptation Challenge? Responding to Global Environmental Change in the Durban metropolitan region, South Africa
• Bakia Mbianyor (Mbianyor.Bakia.2010@live.rhul.ac.uk): Geopolitics of Extractive Resource Governance and its implications for Sustainable Development in Cameroon
• Yuko Misu (yuko.misu.2010@rhul.ac.uk) : Patnership in development practice: the key issues of Japanese donor agencies and NGOs in Africa
• Fiona Nash (fiona.nash.2009@rhul.ac.uk) :
• Uduak Okon : ICTs and Sustainable Communities Development: Building on Indigenous knowledge systems in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.
• Saeid Sadeghi (saeid.sadeghi.2010@rhul.ac.uk) : Socio-cultural aspects of mobile phones and the possibility of applying these handheld devices to preserve cultural heritages.
• Fernanda Scur : Deconstructing ICT4D Projects: Towards a framework for sustainable interaction
• Ugo Vallauri : ICT4D and grassroots rural community development

Topics in the area of Environmental and Political Geography

• Leonhardt van Efferink (Leonhardt.VanEfferink.2010@live.rhul.ac.uk) : Geopolitics and Newspaper Discourses on Afghanistan: A British, Dutch and German perspective
• Wouter Geerts : The ‘green’ business traveller: The influence of companies’ CSR policies and increased environmental awareness on the hospitality industry
• Alison Hess (A.E.Hess@rhul.ac.uk) : The 2LO Transmitter: technology, material culture and metropolitan modernity in inter-war London.
• Philip Kirby : Calibrating terror: a geopolitical biography of the Homeland Security Advisory System
• Chih Yuan Woon (C.Y.Woon@rhul.ac.uk) : Philipines and the 'War on Terror'
• Rong Zheng (r.zheng@rhul.ac.uk) : Governance of China's water resources in key urban areas: the cases of Beijing and Chongqing

Topics in the area of Social and Cultural Geography

• Jamie Adcock: An Historical Geography of the Child’s Bedroom
• Anyaa Annim-Adoo: Steam after slavery: The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in the post-emancipation Caribbean, c. 1834-1870
• Michael Anton : Placing performance: London’s live music events
• Natalia Avalona Post-digital art and the boundaries of relational aesthetics.
• Maria das Gracas Brightwell: London's 'Brazilian flavour': commerce, consumption and the transnational geographies of food
• Caroline Cornish : Science, Collections, and Empire: the Kew Museum of Economic Botany
• Amy Cutler: Write off the map: cartographic practises and twentieth century British poetry
• Ashley Dawkins: Creative Praxis and the Urban: The Social and Political Geographies of Urban Interventions
• Shivani Derrington: Diasporic cultures of fashion consumption (with V&A)
• Francisco Ferreira : Agricultural rituals in highland Peru (with British Museum)
• Bradley L. Garrett : Place Hacking: Tales of Urban Exploration.
• Steven Gray : Imperial Coaling: Steam-power, the Royal Navy and British Imperial Coaling stations circa. 1870-1914
• Jo Hall: Sharing human origins at the British Museum (CDA with BM)
• Madeleine Hatfield : Moving Home?: Exploring the domestic geographies of British migrants returning to the UK from Singapore
• Philip Hatfield : Colonial Copyright and the Photographic Image: Canada in the Frame
• Louise Henderson: Geographical publishing in mid-nineteenth century Britain
• Alison Hess: The 2LO transmitter: technology, material culture and metropolitan modernity in twentieth-century Britain (CDA with Science Museum)
• Craig Martin: The cultural geographies of distributive space
• Ellie Miles: Curating the global city (CDA with Museum of London
• Terri Moreau : Subversive Sovereignties: Micropatrias Enclaved by the United Kingdom
• Ashley Nye: The urban village in British planning
• Shuhei Okada: Transformation of emptiness. From space to place in Brixton
• Kimberley Peters: Places Apart: A Social and Cultural Geography of Ships
• Rory Rowan (rory.rowan.2007@live.rhul.ac.uk) : Carl Schmitt's Spatialities: Ontology, Space & Geopolitics
• Emma Rowland: Emotional labour and gender performance in the NHS
• Harng Luh Sin: Social responsibilities of tourism corporations in Thailand
• James Thurgill: Preternaturalisms: Landscape, Place, Spirit
• Dan Whittall : Black West Indians in Britain and the politics of empire, 1931-1948
• Chris Woods: Cultural geographies of birdwatching
• Eriko Yasue: The practice and reproduction of landscape among Japanese tourists
• Cristiana Zara: Sacred journeys and profane travellers: visual experiences and spatial practices in Varanasi, India
• Xuejuan Zhang (Xuejuan.Zhang@rhul.ac.uk): Heritage Tourism in Yunnan Province, China

Topics in the area of Environmental Change

• Matthew Canti (M.G.Canti@rhul.ac.uk) : Archaeological significance of calcium carbonate granules in buried soils
• Kirstin Coley : Environmental history of the Peruvian Altiplano
• Barnaby Crocker: Evolution and palaeoecology of the Woolly Rhinoceros
• Katie Denton :Palaeoentomology in raised peat bogs from the Irish Midlands
• Lucy Flower : From the Pliocene to the present: the evolution and ecological role of the Wolf (Canis lupus L.) in Britain and North West Europe, with particular reference to body size change and competition.
• Mark Hardiman : Synchronising terrestrial records of abrupt climate change using distal tephrochronology
• Peter Riches (P.F.Riches@rhul.ac.uk) :
• Mark Ruddy : The western Palaearctic evolution of the water vole Arvicola
• Natalie Russell : Environmental Change in the Gebel Akhdar, northern Libya, over the last Glacial / Interglacial cycle
• Rebecca Sheldon (R.K.Sheldon@rhul.ac.uk) : Analysis and Modelling of adaptive behaviour of early, agricultural based, immigrant communities as interpreted from archaeological evidence of changes in food procurement strategies and process
• Christopher Satow : Improved Synchronisation of Marine records Using Tephrostratigraphy
• Ruth Waghorne : Palaeoenvironments and human occupation during the Lateglacial at Sproughton, Ipswich

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