Research Students

Gail Davies has supervised a broad range of PhD students with research interests in:

• Nature-society relationships, and alternative ways of thinking about and living with nature;
• Materiality and spatiality in socio-technical relations, including work on food, plants, animals, risk and biotechnology;
• Knowledge practices, innovative forms of engagement with science, and the geographies of science and technology. 

She welcomes enquiries from potential students interested in these and related areas. She is also happy to field enquires from post-doctoral researchers.

Current Post-doctoral students

• Angela Last 'Creating Common Futures – Embedding experimental methods for public engagement with innovative technologies'

Current PhD students (supervisor and committee)

• Hannah Fair 'Cultural dimensions of climate change in the Maldives'
  
• Jacqueline Lau 'Investigating direct and mediated everyday nature experience of urban youths in Singapore'
• Christian Nold 'Case study evaluation of a situated and affective design method for grassroots Citizen Science'
• Sara Peres 'Seed banking networks and the globalisation of plant biodiversity' (with the Department of Science and Technology Studies)
  
• Christian Solberg 'Fault-lines of trust, risk and morality in seismic engineering' (with the Department of Science and Technology Studies)

Selected past PhD students (since 2000)

• Carina Fearnley has a background in earth sciences and mining. Her PhD Research (jointly supervised with the Aon Benfield Hazard Research Centre and Earth Sciences) was on the standardisation of volcano alert level systems in the USGS, and the implications for local responsiveness to hazards (ESRC/NERC Studentship). She completed her PhD in 2010 and is currently lecturer in Environmental Hazards at Aberystwyth University.
• Richard Milne completed his PhD with the Department of Science and Technology Studies, the Department of Geography and the UCL Institute of Human Genetics and Health in 2009. His resesarch explored the role of research 'origin' in the formation of public attitudes towards biotechnology in the UK, with particular reference to the development of ‘pharming’ (UCL Institute of Human Genetics and Health Scholarship). He now works as a research officer exploring novel foods at Sheffield University. A copy of his Phd is online at http://rjmilne.com/phd.html.
• Kezia Barker completed the MSc in Environment, Science and Society in 2003. She then completed her PhD research in the Geography Department on the changing practices of plant bio-security in New Zealand and their relationship to shifting ideas of national identity.  This was funded by an ESRC Studentship.  Kezia currently works as a lecturer for Birkbeck College, University of London.
• Isobel Tomlinson is a graduate of the MSc in Environment, Science and Society. She completed her research on the development of organic food policy in the UK, which was funded by an ESRC Studentship.  She currently works for the Soil Association
• Robert Doubleday completed his PhD in Geography in 2004. His research was on political innovations, studying corporate engagements in the controversy over genetically modified foods. This research was funded by an ESRC Studentship. He now works as Head of Research, at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.
• Russell Hitchings’ PhD focused on the changing ways domestic gardens in contemporary London are organised and how plants, as actively 'living' things, are managed and understood within this process. Russell Hitchings completed the MSc in Environment, Science and Society in 2001 and his research was funded by the ESRC. His first post was as an RCUK research fellow post at the Department of Geography, University of Hull. He is now a lecturer at UCL.
• Kersty Hobson completed her PhD in Geography at UCL in 2000. This was an ESRC CASE studentship evaluating and understanding lifestyle change in environmental information programmes. She worked for a while as lecturer in the Department of Human Geography at The Australian National University and is now Senior Research Fellow into the Social and Cultural Contexts of Environmental Change at Oxford.