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Geography Research Students

Learn about some of the research undertaken by our current postgraduate human and physical geography students.

Human Geography research students

Holly Ingledew

Holly's PhD project title is 'Climate Justice and Youth in Northeast England'. Read more about Holly's research.

Chloë Barker

Chloë's PhD project title is 'Operational geographies of deterrence: Furthering the use and boundaries of creative methods in investigating embodied experiences and tacit knowledges of nuclear early warning technologies'. Read more about Chloë's research.

Emma Bloodgood

Emma's PhD project title is‘We will work until there is war’: Women’s work in the memory-spaces of Bosnia and Herzegovina' Read more about Emma's research.

Jennifer Boddy

Jennifer's PhD project title is Rural pubs, provenance, and ‘polycrisis’: A multi-level governance perspective on the adaptive resilience of ‘the local’. Read more about Jennifer's research.

Dominika Dmitrzak

Dominika's PhD project title is 'The effects of internal migration on regional inequalities and spatial stratification in England.'. Read more about Dominika's research.

Emily Faux

Emily's PhD project title is 'Creative Encounters at the End of the World: Story, Method, and Imagination'. Read more about Emily's research.

Daoud Ghool

Daoud's PhD project title is 'The Emerging Geographies of the Israeli Occupation and Palestinian Resistance in Jerusalem'. Read more about Daoud's research.

Laura Ginn

Laura's PhD project title is 'Sustainable Energy Transitions and Regional Growth Paths in the North Sea Basin: A Comparative analysis of North East Scotland and Western Denmark.' Read more about Laura's research.

Abbie Hardcastle

Abbie's PhD project title is 'Queer(y)ing Schooling: The Queer Geographies of Secondary Schools, Young People and the Role of Pedagogy and Education'. Read more about Abbie's research.

Amy Hill

Amy's PhD project title is 'How does the gendered labour market impact social construction and culture development in the Royal Air Force? An intersectional perspective.'. Read more about Amy's research.

Ja Un Hwang

Ja Un's PhD project title is 'The dynamic relationship between entrepreneurship and institutions in regional path development: A Comparative Study of Korean industrial cities'. Read more about Ja Un's research.

Anna Yates

Anna's PhD project title is 'Fear, urban design and neighbourhood segregation in Stockholm, Sweden'. Read more about Anna's research.

Ria G Jones

Ria's PhD project title is 'The Relationship Between Latvian and German Secular Iconoclasm (1900- Present)...' Read more about Ria's research.

Yuhong Lei

Yuhong's PhD project title is 'Robotisation as path creation: the evolution of domestic appliance industry in China.' Read more about Yuhong's research.

Minjing Li

Minjing's PhD project title is 'State's roles in the creative and media sector through global production networks - Tencent, Alibaba, and the Chinese state'. Read more about Minjing's research.

Sophie Lively

Sophie's PhD project title is 'Narrating Masculinities: Racism, Nationalism and Belonging amongst Working Class Men in Tyneside.' Read more about Sophie's research.

Ichamati Mousamputri

Ichamati's PhD project title is 'Hindutva comes to campus: Nationalism, militarism, and violence in Indian universities' Read more about Ichamati's research.

Tolu E Olufarati

Tolu's PhD project title is 'The Influence of NEMIS on the Management of Education for Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria'. Read more about Tolu's research.

Nick Sundin

Nick's PhD project title is 'The Rise and Fall of a Contested Strategic Narrative: The Belt and Road Initiative and the US-China Relationship'. Read more about Nick's research.

Beth Vecchione

Beth's PhD project title is 'Finding meaning through movement: an exploration of the meaning that trauma-informed dance can have in a care-experienced young person’s life.'. Read more about Beth's research.

Helen Woolley

Helen's PhD project title is 'Securing a Sense of Safety for Adopted Children in Middle Childhood'. Read more about Helen's research.

Yujia Xu

Yujia's PhD project title is 'Chinese Identi‘Tea’: Gendered Tea Geographies'. Read more about Yujia's research.

Zena Agha

Zena's PhD project title is 'Colonial Cartography in Palestine-Israel and the Decolonising Potential of Counter-Maps'. Read more about Zena's research.

Physical Geography research students

Melanie Bettles

Melanie's PhD project title is 'Debris flow risk: global assessment and local risk reduction' Read more about Melanie's research.

Harley Dixey

Harley's PhD project title is 'Remote Sensing of River Flow Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and Satellite Platforms' Read more about Harley's research.

Sophie Harris

Sophie's PhD project aims to combine sedimentary DNA and stable isotopes with palaeo methods to understand how the biodiversity of ponds has changed over the past two hundred years. Read more about Sophie's research.

Alex Hyde

Alex's project aims to understand how glacial lakes in the Himalayas are driving non-heterogeneous glacier retreat. Read more about Alex's research.

Sonam Rinzin

Sonam's PhD project title is 'Investigate coupling GLOF hazard maps with an agent-based risk / behaviour model' Read more about Sonam's research.

Hannah Runeckles

Hannah's PhD project title is ‘'Investigating the morphological footprints of anthropogenic activities upon the Red River Delta, Vietnam, and its communities.' Read more about Hannah's research.

Gunjan Silwal

Gunjan's PhD project title is 'Quantifying the controls on, influences and glaciological impacts of glacier disconnections on ice masses in the Himalaya' Read more about Gunjan's research.

Bridget Tiller

Bridget's PhD project title is 'Early to Mid Quaternary ice sheet and climate change on the Northeast Atlantic Margin' Read more about Bridget's research.