Doctoral Thesis Archive
Search for our most recently awarded PhDs from 2017 onwards
2022
Name |
Supervisors |
Title |
Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tania Guerrero Rios | Using financialised housing as a planning instrument: the impact of urban containment policies on affordable housing in Mexico City | UCL Discovery | |
| Jack Layton | Urban public sports facilities: social infrastructure and the public life of cities | UCL Discovery | |
| Nilufer Sari Aslam | James Cheshire | Inferring Trip Purposes from Travel Smart Card Data | UCL Discovery |
| Joanna Tindall | Lacustrine oxygen isotopes as tracers of past climate change in NW Europe | UCL Discovery | |
| Eleri Pritchard |
Carl Sayer |
New approaches for exploring signal crayfish invasion biology and ecological impacts in headwater streams | UCL Discovery |
2021
Name |
Supervisor |
Title |
Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lo Lanfear | Benjamin Campkin | Navigating gender diverse worlds assembled upon binary expectations: Investigating the experiences of trans people living in Britain | UCL Discovery |
| Damian Oyarzun Valenzuela | Climate Change and Air Pollution Relationships. Lessons from a Subtropical Desert Region | UCL Discovery | |
| Anna Cutmore |
Mark Maslin |
Insights into the nature of climate and vegetation changes over the last 28,000 years using combined pollen and leaf-wax biomarker analyses from the SW Iberian Margin | UCL Discovery |
| Jihyun Lee |
Simon Marginson Rachel Brooks |
Going global? International students, UK higher education and the pursuit of an international career | UCL Discovery |
| Evelina Gambino |
Rachel Brooks |
(Re)producing the logistical future: ethnography, infrastructure and the making of Georgia’s global connections | UCL Discovery |
2020
Name |
Supervisor |
Title |
Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ffion Carney | Mobility insights through consumer data: a case study of concessionary bus travel in the West Midlands | UCL Discovery | |
| Lucy Dablin | Designing silvopastoral systems for the Amazon: a framework for the evaluation of native species | UCL Discovery | |
| Alix Green |
Mark Maslin Kevin Fowler |
Assessing the impact of environmental pressures on seagrass Blue Carbon stocks in the British Isles | UCL Discovery |
| James Brennan | Mat Disney | New techniques and insights for burned area monitoring from remote sensing data | UCL Discovery |
| Tim Rains |
Paul Longley James Cheshire |
Big Consumer Data: Understanding shopping patterns using loyalty cards | UCL Discovery |
| Suriyah Bi | Elena Qasmiyeh-Fiddian | Marriage and masculinities in motion: Examining the migrant husband’s experience in Birmingham’s British Pakistani community | UCL Discovery |
| Khatereh Eghdamian | Claire Dwyer | Rethinking 'Religious Identity' in Refugee 'Integration': An examination into representations and experiences of Syrian 'Religious Minority' refugees in Berlin, Germany | UCL Discovery |
| Lioba Hirsch | Alan Ingram | Antiblackness and global health: placing the 2014-15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone in the colonial wake | UCL Discovery |
| Jonathan Lewis-Phillips |
Carl Sayer Jan Axmacher |
Contribution of pond management to local bird abundance and diversity on farms in lowland England | UCL Discovery |
| Murray Mckenzie |
Matthew Gandy |
Coming together and apart in Heiqiao Village, Beijing: urban life, artistic practices, and the making of social worlds | UCL Discovery |
2019
Name |
Supervisor |
Title |
Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaun Teo |
Andrew Harris |
Symbiotic states and progressive projects: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation | UCL Discovery |
| Thien Vinh Nguyen |
Jennifer Robinson |
Transcalar Urban Governance: Planning and Development in the “Oil-City” of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana | UCL Discovery |
| Balamurugan Soundararaj |
James Cheshire Paul Longley |
Estimating Footfall From Passive Wi-Fi Signals: Case Study with Smart Street Sensor Project | UCL Discovery |
| Adam Byrne |
Mark Maslin |
The Origins, Design and Implementation of the UK Climate Change Act 2008 | UCL Discovery |
| Jim Hudson | Iqbal Hamiduddin | UCL Discovery | |
| Karlo Lugomer |
Paul Longley James Cheshire |
The Composition and Functioning of Retail Areas | UCL Discovery |
| Alex Ma | Ben Page | Labour migration, remittances and development in the Myanmar-Singapore corridor | UCL Discovery |
| Richard Walton |
Jan Axmacher |
“The pond pollinator pantry”: Assessing how pond management influences pollinators in the UK farmland landscape | UCL Discovery |
| David Seddon |
Kevin Fowler |
The Climate Controls and Process of Groundwater Recharge in a Semi-Arid Tropical Environment: Evidence from the Makutapora Basin, Tanzania | UCL Discovery |
| Matheus Boni Vicari |
Mat Disney Philip Lewis |
On leaf and wood separation from Terrestrial LiDAR data | UCL Discovery |
| Pooya Ghoddousi |
Alan Latham Ben Page |
Dimorphic diasporas: Assembling identity, community belonging, and collective action among Iranians in London | UCL Discovery |
| Richard Mazebedi | Trophic characteristics of aquatic habitats with different flooding regimes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana | UCL Discovery | |
| Frances Brill |
Jennifer Robinson |
The Developer in Question: a comparative analysis of real estate developers in Modderfontein, Johannesburg and London’s Royal Docks | UCL Discovery |
| Daniel Chadwick |
Carl Sayer Jan Axmacher Helen Bennion |
Invasion of the signal crayfish, 'Pacifastacus leniusculus', in England: implications for the conservation of the white-clawed crayfish, 'Austropotamobius pallipes' | UCL Discovery |
| Poppy Harding |
Mark Maslin Kevin Fowler |
Ecosystem Responses to Abrupt Climatic and Environmental Change in Southern Siberia during the Late Quaternary | UCL Discovery |
| Michael Nattrass |
Alan Latham Russell Hitchings |
Commonsensical Understandings of Everyday Infrastructures for Cycling in Car Dominated Transport Environments: Rule-Making, Rule-Breaking and Social Justification | UCL Discovery |
| Emily Smith |
Carl Sayer |
Conduits of Invasive Species into the UK: The Angling Route? | UCL Discovery |
| Alexander Koch |
Mark Maslin |
Earth System impact of historical and future reforestation | UCL Discovery |
| Soledad Martinez Rodriguez |
Andrew Harris |
May I Walk with You? Exploring Urban Inequality in Everyday Walking Practices in Santiago de Chile | UCL Discovery |
| Andrew Papworth |
Sam Randalls Mark Maslin |
An analysis of the food security of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua | UCL Discovery |
| Jennifer Adams |
Mat Disney Philip Lewis |
Quality assurance for biophysical Earth-Observation (EO) products of vegetation flux and structure | UCL Discovery |
| Tom Brocket |
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh |
Between East Coast and West Bank: An ethnographic study of second-generation Palestinian-Americans’ relationship to Palestine and Palestinianness | UCL Discovery |
| Sara Martins |
Carl Sayer |
Ecohydrology of temporary ponds | UCL Discovery |
| Anastasia Ushakova |
Paul Longley Vyacheslav Mikhaylov |
Generating Insights from Smart Meter Data: Challenges and Opportunities | UCL Discovery |
2018
Name |
Supervisor |
Title |
Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fatema Jahan | Ann Varley | Gender and agency: clothing consumption practices of women factory workers in Bangladesh | UCL Discovery |
| Lucien Georgeson |
Mark Maslin |
Redefining and measuring the global green economy: tracking green economy transformations using transactional data | UCL Discovery |
| Alyson Lloyd |
James Cheshire |
The applications of loyalty card data for social science | UCL Discovery |
| Sarah Kunz |
Claire Dwyer |
The ‘Expatriate’: The Postcolonial Politics of a Migration Category | UCL Discovery |
| Hannah Fair |
Sam Randalls Ben Page |
'Not Drowning but Fighting': Faith, Activism, and Climate Change Narratives in the Pacific Islands | UCL Discovery |
| Niranjana Ramesh | Andrew Barry | Infrastructures with a pinch of salt: comparative techno-politics of desalination in Chennai and London | UCL Discovery |
| Amanda Robinson | Jon French | Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia | UCL Discovery |
| Daniel Lapworth |
Richard Taylor |
Hydrogeological responses to deep groundwater pumping in the Indo-Gangetic Basin: Evidence from environmental tracers | |
| Isabel Bishop |
Carl Sayer |
Understanding the habitat and decline of Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & Schmidt in the UK using ecology and paleoecology | UCL Discovery |
| Frank German | Migration, work and housing in Northampton, 1841-71 | UCL Discovery | |
| Mandy Robinson |
Julian Thompson |
Uncertainty in hydrological scenario modelling: An investigation using the Mekong River Basin, SE Asia | UCL Discovery |
| Michael Schembri |
Helene Burningham Jonathan French |
Aspects of embayed beach morphology in a micro-tidal setting in Malta | UCL Discovery |
| Guy Lansley |
Paul Longley James Cheshire |
Big data: geodemographics and representation | UCL Discovery |
| Sam Page |
Jason Dittmer Alan Ingram |
A year in Labour: rethinking political parties, campaigns and elections through assemblage and affect | UCL Discovery |
| Jessica Durkota |
Julian Thompson |
Groundwater Ecology: Invertebrate Community Distribution across the Benthic, Hyporheic and Phreatic Habitats of a Chalk Aquifer in Southeast England | UCL Discovery |
| Cecil Sagoe |
Andrew Harris |
English planning and governmentality: the case of the London Legacy Development Corporation | UCL Discovery |
2017
Name |
Supervisor |
Title |
Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Adams |
Neil Rose Anson Mackay |
Multiproxy reconstructions of recent environmental change: understanding the ecological response of shallow lakes within the Selenga River basin, southeast Siberia, to anthropogenic and natural disturbances | UCL Discovery |
| Hannah Robson |
Vivienne Jones
|
Causes of decline of common scoter (Melanitta nigra) in north Scotland: evidence from palaeolimnology | UCL Discovery |
| Myfanwy Taylor |
Jennifer Robinson |
Contested urban economies: representing and mobilising London's diverse economy | UCL Discovery |
| Samuel Barton |
Andrew Harris |
Alienation and Authenticity in Brixton: An ethnography of a changing neighbourhood | UCL Discovery |
| Alvaro Sanchez Jimenez |
Jennifer Robinson Adam Drazin |
Urban crises across the North-South divide: A comparative study of institutional transformations and urban policy responses in Valencia and Mar del Plata | UCL Discovery |
| Emily Alderton |
Carl Sayer Jan Axmacher |
“Ghost ponds” : Resurrecting lost ponds and species to assist aquatic biodiversity conservation | UCL Discovery |
| Andrew Burt |
Mat Disney Simon Lewis |
New 3D measurements of forest structure | UCL Discovery |
| Clare Duncan |
Nathalie Pettorelli (ZSL) Julian Thompson Heather Koldewey Jurgenne Primavera |
Mangrove forest ecosystem services: Biodiversity drivers, rehabilitation and resilience to climate change | UCL Discovery |
| Alistair Leak |
Paul Longley James Cheshire |
Applications of new forms of data to demographics | UCL Discovery |
| Michel Wortmann | Julian Thompson | Adaptation and implementation of the European, hydrological model SWIM to arid, glacier and snow melt water dominated catchments in NW China | UCL Discovery |