Studentships
We also welcome speculative applications throughout the year in the following areas
Prof. Pete Atkinson:
General areas: Spatial ecology and epidemiology, flooding, land cover change, remote sensing, spatial statistics, spatial process modelling. Specific areas: Vector-borne disease systems such as sleeping sickness and malaria in sub-saharan Africa, spatial modelling of access to health care in developing world settings, remote sensing of vegetation phenology at continental and global scales, anthropogenic- and climate-induced hazards and their impacts on vulnerable populations, statistical downscaling of remotely sensed land cover, settlement and census-based population datasets, space-time modelling of land cover and other global environmental changes, fluvial process modelling and real-time forecasting of the flood hazard.
Dr. Kate Boyer:
General areas: Feminist geography, gender and work, work/life balance. Infant and maternal health. Specific areas: Re-gendering of care in the contemporary UK; Commodotised childcare and day nurseries
Prof. Paul Carling:
General areas: Fluvial geomorphology and estuarine dynamics; Megaflood dynamics and sedimentation modelling; Gravel dune and antidune processes; Origins of hummocky cross-strata; Palaeolake shoreline modelling; Bedrock channel geomorphology and process; River channel management for energy pipeline crossings; Large river processes (especially the Mekong River) and modelling.
Dr. Nick Clarke:
General areas: Urban geography, cultural geography, political geography, qualitative methods. Specific topics: Migration, tourism, consumption, ethics, social movements, urban policy, urban politics, local government, localism, social enterprise.
Ms. Sam Cockings:
General areas: geographic information systems/science; environment and health; geographies of health; population mapping and modelling. Specific topics: automated zone design; Census geography methodologies; space-time representation of population; space-time population models in environment and health studies; novel geographical data sources and linkage.
Prof. Steve Darby:
General areas: Fluvial Geomorphology; Process sedimentology; Palaeo-hydrology. Specific topics: Morphodynamics of submarine channels affected by turbidity currents; Geomorphological evolution of large deltas; Climate fluctuations and bank erosion on large rivers (e.g., Indus, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Mekong); Monsoon variability and flood risk on the mighty Mekong River.
Dr. Geoff DeVerteuil:
General areas: urban geography; geographies of inequality; health geography. Specific topics: therapeutic landscapes and substance abuse treatment; comparative urbanism, especially between London and other global cities; the geographies of welfare state restructuring, especially the intersections among immigrant groups, the voluntary sector and the larger welfare state; gentrification and displacement of voluntary sector organizations; mental health geographies.
Prof. Jane Hart:
General areas: Glaciers and Climate change; Environment Sensor Networks; Quaternary glacial sedimentology. Specific areas:An investigation of stick-slip basal motion using wireless subglacial probe; Debris flow prediction models: integrating data from an environmental sensor network.
Dr. Pete Langdon:
General areas: climate change, past & future, environmental change. Specific areas: palaeolimnology, eutrophication, chironomids, lakes, palaeoecology & geochronology.
Dr Julian Leyland:
General areas: Landscape Evolution Modelling, fluvial geomorphology, Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Specific topics: Developing landscape modelling tools for simulating terrestrial-marine process interactions; Use of Terrestrial Laser Scanning to study fluvial forms and processes; GIS based analysis and modelling of historical river channel evolution
Prof. Dave Martin:
General areas: Population geography, geographical information science, geography of health, quantitative secondary data analysis. Specific areas: Census methodology; automated zone design, post-census population data systems; population surface modelling, time-space representation of population, novel geographical data linkage, health care accessibility measurement.
Prof. Graham Moon:
General areas: Health geography, population geography, social and cultural geography, urban geography, social wellbeing, application of quantitative methods to the analysis of secondary datasets; multilevel modelling; innovative qualitative methods – archival, textual and visual. Specific topics: Health-related behaviours: smoking, drinking, diet, exercise, sexual health, health-service uptake. Particular interests in health behaviours in marginalised or hard-to-reach groups, co-behaviours, interface with mental wellbeing, and longitudinal behavioural change; Small area synthetic estimation of health needs; Spatial implications of health service reform, including role of place in health policy, catchmentisation methodologies; Relict health care landscapes and buildings, particularly spectral geographies of psychiatric asylum.
Dr. Jo Nield:
General areas: Modelling of aeolian landscapes and processes; Terrestrial laser scanning applications in aeolian process dominated environments. Specific topics: Temporal and spatial patterns in salt pan surface roughness; Modelling the influence of moisture in aeolian environments, combining the feedback processes both of surface and water table inputs with vegetation response; Modelling yardang pattern formation; Surface moisture influences of sediment input to dune development: application of terrestrial laser scanning
Prof. Steven Pinch:
General areas: Urban Social Geography; Geographies of Innovation and Creativity. Specific topics: Innovation in: Industrial clusters, creative quarters and social enterprises
Dr Andrew Power:
Specific topics: Unveiling the Geographies of Personalisation & Direct Payments; Care to Work? Understanding geographical perspectives in the implementation of the policy shift for care services to support people into work; New and Emerging Disability Communities on the Web 2.0; New Geographies of Family Leadership in Care & Support; Governance of the New Commissioning Framework in Health and Social Care
Dr. Suzanne Reimer:
General topics: economic geography; feminist geography; cultural economy. Specific topics: design & commodity networks; design, creativity & knowledge; the home & home consumption; local labour market dynamics, changing gender divisions of labour; work, employment & skill; gender & caring work (with Kate Boyer)
Dr Gareth Roberts:
General areas: Remote sensing of natural hazards, vegetation monitoring and characterisation, land cover / land cover change. Specific topics: Remote sensing of biomass burning (burned area mapping, carbon emissions estimation, fire regime characterisation, post-fire vegetation recovery)
Dr. Emma Roe:
General areas: Food consumption, food retailing, agriculture; Animal studies, human-animal relations; Care practices in human health and/or animal health; Human-technology relations in health or agriculture/food contexts; The politics of the sentient being; Care practices for the sentient; Theories of matter and materiality in the social sciences; Experimental practices. Specific topics: Innovations in food retail supply chains
Dr. Kanchana N Ruwanpura:
General areas: development geographies of the Global South, particularly South Asia; feminist issues of development, post-disaster reconstruction/development efforts and its inter-connections with ethno-nationalism, identity politics and power dynamics; critical evaluations of labour market practices and global factories in the formal and informal sectors - and its relationship to voluntary forms of governance and ethical trading.
Prof. David Sear:
General areas: Fluvial geomorphology and ecology interactions; Restoration and sediment management in rivers; Long term records of sediment fluxes from river systems; Long term Coastal morphodynamics. Specific topics: Quantifying long term sediment response to environmental forcing (climate, land use) using lake sediments; Understanding geomorphic controls on Salmon habitat and population dynamics; Reconstructing salmon populations from lake sediments; Reconstructing the historical storm records from former estuary sediments; The role of large wood in controlling riverine sediment budgets.
Prof. Peter Sunley:
General areas: Economic geography, regional and local economic evolution. Specific areas: Dynamics and evolution of industrial clusters; Path dependence in regional economies; Innovation systems and high-technology path creation; Design firms in global production networks; Comparative studies of creative and design clusters; Regional and urban economic resilience; Corporate social responsibility and industry governance; The local embeddedness of social enterprise; Geography and welfare-to-work policy.
Dr Emma Tompkins:
General areas: climate change; Disaster risk reduction/ hazards; environment and development; Natural resources management; Governance and institutions relating to the environment; Small islands; Coasts. Specific areas: Climate change adaptation; Climate change policy and national and international; Community based natural resources management; Institutional mechanisms for delivery of ecosystem services, or climate change adaptation; Payments for ecosystem services; Private sector delivery of public goods; Intersection between adaptation and mitigation; Perceptions of risk and hazards; Hazard preparedness, specifically for tropical cyclones, floods, sea level rise, drought and storms
Dr. Jim Wright:
General areas: Health-related applications of GIS (particularly those with a developing country focus); Environmental management applications of GIS (particularly those with a developing country focus); Linkages between drinking water and health. Specific topics: Linkages between climate change and water-borne disease.