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 School of Geography and the Environment

Current DPhil Students

  • Malek Al-Chalabi
    Socio/technical research of personal transport use.
  • Rodrigo Arce
    Certified Forest industry diversification in the Bolivian Northern Amazon: escaping the staple trap in the forest carbon era
  • Meghan Bailey (Started 2011)
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
  • Edoardo Borgomeo (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
  • Emma Cardwell (Started 2010)
    Using property rights to manage fisheries: a case study from the UK
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
  • Robert Carlsson (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
  • Abrar Chaudhury (Started 2011) Financial and Institutional Design of Climate Change Adaptation
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
  • Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
    Relationships between leaf life-cycle and canopy shadow patterns on Earth Observation-derived indices in Amazonian forests
  • Kathryn Clark
    The role of landslides in the Peruvian Andes in determining forest ecology and carbon transport.
  • Dan Cooper
    Under Mount Roraima: the conservation and development of a sacred landscape
  • Daniel Curtis
    Achieving 2020 carbon reduction targets in the higher education sector of England: the role of building energy information systems.
  • Cecilia Dahlsjo
    Unravelling the role of termites in ecosystem functioning in tropical Amazonia.
  • Tahia Devisscher (Started 2011)
    Supervisor: Yadvinder Malhi
    Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity of Social-ecological Systems in Tropical Forest Landscape
  • Linda Geaves (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
  • Gonzalo Griebenow (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Yadvinder Mahli
  • Alexis Gutierrez (Started 2011)
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
    The impact of market-based incentives on global sustainable fishing
  • Xi Hu (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    China's evolving vulnerability to climate change impacts: a spatial analysis of its infrastructure system
  • Takeshi Inagawa (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Yadvinder Mahli
  • Ashley Kingsborough (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Climate Change Risk Assessment, Decision Making and the Development of Adaptation Pathways
  • Yuge Ma (Started 2011)
    Second supervisor: Nick Eyre
    Regulation and low carbon development in the reform era: comparing China and India
  • Ewan MacDonald (Started 2010)
    How can we maximise the contribution of carbon finance mechanisms to deliver biodiversity co-benefits to species and ecosystem conservation?
  • Shauna Monkman (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
  • Sarah Parker (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Nick Eyre
  • Balqis Mohammed Rehan (Started 2011)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Developing robust decision making strategies for dealing with uncertainties in flow variability for hydrological extremes
  • Dane Rook (Started 2011)
    Second supervisor: Nick Eyre
    Analysing effective strategies for pioneering sustainable technology investment through behavioural finance and psychology lenses.
  • Jan Rosenow (Started 2009)
    Moving towards a low energy future in the domestic sector? Social transition and the role of public policy.
  • Caroline Schmidt
    Avoiding deforestation and the geography of law in the Brazilian Amazon.
  • Chase Sova (Started 2012)
    Supervisor: Tom Thornton
  • Scott Thacker (Started 2011)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Reducing the Risk of Failure in Interdependent National Infrastructure Network Systems
  • Marina Topouzi (Started 2009)
    The role of occupants' interaction with the UK's retrofitted housing stock in energy consumption.
  • Rocio Urrutia (Started 2010)
    Assessment of forest ecosystem services under climate and land use change scenarios in Chile.
  • Kate Young (Started 2011)
    Supervisor: Jim Hall
    Long term planning of options for sustainable national infrastructure provision