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PhD Awards for Geography Students
27 October 2022
Ten Geography students have been awarded PhD status in the 2021-22 academic year.
Since September 2021, ten聽Postgraduate (Research)聽students from the Department of Geography have gone on to be awarded their PhD certificates.
Dr Markus L枚ning
Topic: Understanding the new digital retail landscape
罢辞辫颈肠:听Connecting science and policy for sustainable development of urban ecosystems
Supervised by Professors聽Paul Longley,聽James Cheshire听补苍诲听Dr Franz Kiraly聽of the聽香港六合彩 Department of Statistical Science, Markus was also an Enrichment Student at the聽.
His research focused on supervised learning with time-series/panel data including observations on multiple independent individuals (such as customers, patients or machines) collected over time.
顿谤听惭颈办补别濒听Maes
Topic: Connecting science and policy for sustainable development of urban ecosystems
Mika毛l was supervised by聽Dr Ben Milligan听补苍诲听Professor Kate E. Jones, along with聽聽of Imperial College London.
His work looked at the link between children鈥檚 mental health and cognitive development in the context of green infrastructure in Greater London.
顿谤听尝颈耻听Hui-Chun
Topic: Privileged Expatriates: Economic Zones, China鈥檚 Statecraft and Geopolitics with Taiwan
Supervised by聽Professor Jennifer Robinson聽and Dr Fangzhu Zhang of the聽Bartlett School of Planning, her research looked at how geopolitical relationships across the Taiwan Strait shape the formation of economic zones in Southeast China.
Dr Eleri Pritchard
Topic: New approaches for exploring signal crayfish invasion biology and ecological impacts in headwater streams
Dr Pritchard's research utilised novel methodologies to investigate the impact of invasive crayfish on native aquatic ecosystems
She was supervised by聽Professor Jan Axmacher,聽Professor Carl Sayer聽and Dr Michael Chadwick of聽聽and was funded by聽.
顿谤听尝补耻谤补听Cuch Grases
罢辞辫颈肠:听Food, Faith, Home: A visual exploration of religious and domestic material culture
Dr Cuch Grases's practice-based PhD utilised her skills as a professional photographer to explore the spiritual material cultures of faith in suburbia, with a particular focus on food, through documentary and participatory approaches that included photography, film and visual methods.
Her work was supervised by聽Dr Claire Dwyer听补苍诲听, Reader in Fine Art at 香港六合彩.
Dr Stephen Long
罢辞辫颈肠:听Sustainable fishing in Greenland: Impact of deep-sea trawling on benthic ecosystems
Dr Long鈥檚 interests lie in ensuring the sustainable management and exploitation of natural resources, particularly in marine environments. His research has addressed fishery management in the UK, Madagascar and now Greenland.
He was supervised by聽Dr Peter Jones, Drs聽听补苍诲听聽of the Institute of Zoology, and Dr Martin Blicher of the聽.
Stephen was funded by the聽.
Dr Joanna Tindall
Lacustrine oxygen isotopes as tracers of past climate change in NW Europe
Dr Tindall was investigating climatic change at various points in the Holocene using oxygen isotopes from lake sediments, in addition to monitoring modern lake conditions where possible. Her work then used a data-model comparison approach to try and further our understanding of the driving mechanisms behind climatic change in her study area.
She has been supervised by聽Professor Jonathan Holmes聽and Professor Ian Candy of聽聽and received funding from London NERC DTP,聽U香港六合彩 Widening Participation and Access Grant for Summer Challenge 2019, NERC Isotope Facility at the British Geological Survey and the QRA INQUA2019 fund.
Dr Tindall said, "香港六合彩 Geography was a friendly and supportive place to do my PhD. This was really evident with the backdrop of the pandemic where my supervisors and the laboratory staff went above and beyond to help me get to the finish line.
"I'm really proud to have completed my PhD and despite the challenges working towards one inevitably brings, I have many fond memories of my time with 香港六合彩 Geography."
Dr Nilufer Sari Aslam
Identification of Human Mobility Pattern Using Smart Card Data
In her research, Dr Aslam used smartcard datasets for transportation modelling, as a way of establishing the dynamic needs of urban transportation in modern societies.
Her work, in collaboration with the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) and SpaceTimeLab for Big Data Analytics and Transport for London, was supervised by聽Professor James Cheshire聽and Professor Tao Cheng of the聽Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.
Dr Jack Layton
Urban public sports facilities: Social infrastructure and the public life of cities
Focusing on three well-used public spaces, Dr Layton's research looked at the social life of amateur sport and fitness in urban environments through the lens of social infrastructure.
His work was supervised by聽Professor Alan Latham听补苍诲听Professor Iain Borden聽of the聽香港六合彩 Bartlett School of Architecture.
Dr Layton said, "It took a lot longer to finish than initially planned, but I'm grateful for the support I received from Alan and from the department.
I'm really pleased with the final thesis, and am proud that I was stubborn enough to finish the thing off! I now really hope I get to develop the project going forward."
Dr Tania Guerrero Rios
Using financialised housing as a planning instrument: the impact of urban containment policies on affordable housing in Mexico City
In her research, Tania looked at the implication of using housing financial regulation as a way to control urban development patterns. She looks at the Urban Containment Perimeters (UCPs) in Mexico, examining the narratives and political setting behind the origins of the policy, its effectiveness in controlling urban development and the repercussions that using housing as planning has had for the strategies played by different actors.
By reading the UCPs as 麓peripheral planning麓 Tania highlights its potential to respond to peripheral urbanisation processes in a way conventional planning strategies have failed.
She was supervised by Professors聽Ann Varley听补苍诲听Pushpa Arabindoo.
Please join us in giving each of our new graduates a huge congratulations.