Geography PGRs are affiliated with one or more of three research groups: Centre for Quaternary Research; Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice; Social, Cultural and Historical Geography. Browse current PGR research topics below.
Current PhD projects
CQR (Centre for Quaternary Research)
| Student name | Project title |
| Crystal Ahiable | The forgotten forests: understanding the future of wet woodlands as carbon-dense ecosystems |
| Anna Beckett | The nature and timing of deglaciation and landscape response to abrupt climate change |
| Alexander Clark | A multi-proxy investigation of northeast Irish Ice Sheet deglacial dynamics |
| Jessica Clayton-Rowley | Climate Forcing in Southern Britain: A Multi-Proxy Analysis of the UK’s First Holocene Varve Record |
| Elliot Coggins | Developing a new high-resolution reconstruction of the Young Dryas ice cap in Scotland |
| Yasmin Dave | Critical remote sensing of Indigenous fire use in Guyana |
| Anjali Dhunna | Towards a Holocene tephrostratigraphic framework for the Antarctic peninsula |
| Naima Harman | A new cryptotephra record for the Levantine Sea: implications for regional tephrochronology, palaeoclimatology, and archaeology |
| Laura Hemmingham | Dietary Flexibility, Resource Partitioning and Ecological Resilience in the Quaternary Cervidae |
| Richard Lowther | Testing the impact of the Early Holocene abrupt climatic events on Mesolithic societies |
| Mollie Mills | Rescuing the red dog: using the Pleistocene fossil record of the dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) to inform future conservation initiatives. |
| Dylan Oliver | Maximising ecosystem service provision from wet woodlands for policy and practice |
| Katharine Quinlan | Rewilding with megaherbivores as keystone species: The case Elk and Bison in Britain |
| Els Rogers | Spatial and temporal dynamics of the Late Pleistocene Spey Valley Ice-lobe |
| Erika Zane | The environmental context, agrigultural potential and location choices of Roman Villae in Italy. |
GDSJ (Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice Research Group)
| Student name | Project title |
| James Barr | Autonomy, Order, and Infrastructuring: A Study on the Appropriation of Digital Technology Systems in Oaxaca |
| Natasha Buckley | GCHQ: A journey from cyber security to cuber power (2009 - 2022). |
| Claire Christopher | Racial capitalism and global city development in Birmingham |
| Kate Constantine | Using participatory methods to engage women farmers in the use of biological control as a low-risk pest management approach |
| Fiona Cumberland | Power, Technology and Gambling: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Online Sports Betting in Kenya |
| Daniel Gallagher | Long term interactions between vegetation, fire and human impact in the Neotropics, with a case study from Guyana. |
| Yidnekachew Haile | Digitalised Translocal Migrant Entrepreneurship, DTME The digitalised translocal entrepreneurial practices of the migrants of Ethiopian and Eritrean Origin in the UK |
| Harri Hudson | Toxic Development: Waste Flows as a Tool of Dispossession and Urbanisation in Phnom Penh: Understanding the Spatial Politics of Waste Through the Lived Experiences of Urban Poor Environments in Phnom Penh |
| Stephanie Itimi | Surveillance, Care, and Security Practices in the Domestic Work Sector in Lagos Island, Nigeria. |
| Jasmine Joanes | Seeing Red: an intimate geopolitics of menstrual justice in the United Kingdom. |
| Madelaine Joyce | Within the Boundary Zone: Enlivening the Inter-Korean Borderland |
| Anna Lewis | Useful hedgerow plants: the creation of wellbeing and sense of place in local communities |
| Baichuan Liu | Geographies of Descent: Building Secure and Effective Border Institutions Across the Himalayan Valleys |
| Aikaterini Mavrona | Geopolitical contestation and global standard setting organizations |
| Can Emre Memis | Post Pandemic Cities (Historical Experiences, Lessons Learned and Future Planning of Metropolises: Case Studies of London and Istanbul Based on the Covid-19 Process) |
| Taylor Robinson | Security for Women in Pattaya, Thailand |
| Francisca Sassetti | The role of digital technology in Brazilian labour migration to Portugal |
| Philip Sheriff | An investigation into the Evolution and Integration of Impact Evaluation in Cybersecurity Capacity Building |
| Min Yee Tan | Understanding thoughtlessness in action: An Arendtian contribution to critical geopolitics |
| Tahmina Khan Tithi | Location-based Digital Labour Platforms and the Future of Work for Female Platform Workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Omer Ozturk | The Role of Cyber Security in the Politics of the Middle East: A View from Politcal Geography. |
SCHG (Social, Cultural & Historical Geography)
| Student name | Project title |
| Cynthia Anyadi | Mapping Death, Migration, and Material Culture: A Case Study of Igbo Nigerians |
| Eva Barbarossa | Encountering the subsurface : knowledges, experiences, and practices of engagement. |
| Jane Cameron | Mapping Messengers: The work, urban mobility, and lived experiences of London motorcycle despatch riders, 1970-2000. |
| Wayne Chambliss | Field Works: Toward a Geophysical Art, and Articulation of a Geology of Knowledge, in the Campi Flegrei |
| Angela Chan | Clusters of Creativity: Conurbations and Co-location |
| Claire Christopher | Racial Capitalism and the making of the Global City |
| Erica Deluchi | Mapping the Seafloor: GLORIA and the Emergence of a Cold War Planetary Imagination, 1965–2002 |
| Georgia Dimdore-Miles | Cruising the Cut: Lesbian Histories of Mobility and Queer Futures of Boat-Dwelling on the UK's Canals |
| Katherine Griffiths | Going Out, Coming Out, Playing Out: A Lesbian DJ Mapping Queer Sonic Spaces in 1980s and 1990s London |
| Una Helle | Spirits of Place: thinking through subterranean subjectivities |
| Samuel Hertz | Scales of Change: Addressing Global Environmental Change through Transdisciplinary Sonic Practices |
| Christina Hourigan | The making of a global arboretum: the case of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew |
| Jasmine Joanes | ‘Seeing Red’: Alter-Geopolitics of Menstrual Management and Activism in the United Kingdom |
| Maddie Joyce | Within the Boundary Zone: Enlivening the Inter-Korean Borderland |
| Sophia Kamps | Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain |
| Meghana Kuppa | Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens and the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century |
| Indira Lemouchi | Voicing the Eco-Political Agencies of Children through Participatory Creative Methods |
| Gloria Lowe | Theatre and Performance in the Home |
| Lia Mazzari | Auditing the Sonosphere: Live Audio Streaming as Expanded Geo-practice |
| Viveca Mellegård | Dyeing to Become Whole: Indigo Dyeing as Embodied Practice for a More Sustainable Future |
| Holly Nielsen | British Board Games and Ludic Lives, c.1860-1939 |
| Michelle Payne | Reinterpreting Marianne North: life writing, botanical travel, and the legacies of empire |
| Teresa Pinto | Heritage and Conservation in the work of the Greater London Council: Reimagining London 1965-1986 |
| Aurora Prehn | The Biocultural Diaspora of Tea in the 21st Century |
| Kirsten Rowland | Furthering diversity agendas in grassroots cultural production: a feminist geographical inquiry |
| Jack Seagrove | Rethinking the Relationship Between the UK and the Overseas Territories: Kew, Science Diplomacy and Soft Power |
| Laura Spence | Musical Niches and the Foodways of Chilean Wine |
| Rachel Tyler | The Geography of Garments: Cartographies of London’s Fashion Industry, 1984–2020 |
| Weitao Wang | The geopower of air and fire: a cultural geography of fiery rituals in China |
| Robert Warin | Platform Sex Work: Examining the Labour Process within Online Sex Work |
| Revd. David Williams | Shared Sacred Spaces: Shrines, Relics and Sacred Objects in the Byzantine Mediterranean (7th–15th c.) |
| Bethany Williamson | Translating Place: Orthography and the Problem of Place Names at the Royal Geographical Society |
| Bethan Worthington | Arts of Climate Reconstruction |
| Emma Yandle | The geographical museum |
| Jingya Zeng | The Influence of Urban Blue and Green Space on Residents’ Mental Health against the Urban Background of Mountainous Terrain: A case Study of Chongqing |
