Our PhD candidates

The Department of Geography is at the forefront of human and physical geography research, with our internationally excellent and world-leading contribution being recognised in the most recent Research Excellence Framework. Find out more about the issues some of our PhD researchers are tackling.

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Name Contact Thesis title
Barry Hunter bwhunter1@sheffield.ac.uk  
Charlotte Curry cscurry1@sheffield.ac.uk The Impacts of Climate Change and Mining on Glaciers in the Andes
Ollie Chesworth

ochesworth1@sheffield.ac.uk 

Interrogating the nature of foodscapes and alternative food-economies through alternative food spaces
Ella Hubbard erchubbard1@sheffield.ac.uk Democratic Politics for Community Economies
Ingun Borg iborg1@sheffield.ac.uk  
Josephine Hornsey jhornsey1@sheffield.ac.uk  
Katie Sumner k.sumner@sheffield.ac.uk  
Naomi Oates nemoates1@sheffield.ac.uk  
Remy Veness r.veness@sheffield.ac.uk Exploring sediment transfer beneath ice sheets from model-data comparisons encompassing changing ice flow geometries
Rosie Archer rarcher4@sheffield.ac.uk Emulating the last Eurasian Ice Sheet
Sakariya Haji shaji2@sheffield.ac.uk The role of diaspora in state building
Sihui Wen Swen7@sheffield.ac.uk Understanding of dust emission in the Gonghe basin in China
Teresa (Tete') Mausse tfmausse1@sheffield.ac.uk Informal Water Provision: Enabling or Constraining -Sustainable- Development?
William Haynes wrhaynes1@sheffield.ac.uk Seen and unseen: homeless migrants at Stazione Termini in Rome
Will Wenban wwenban1@sheffield.ac.uk Deciphering the Influence of Glacial Erosion on Alpine Landscape Evolution Through a Novel Application of Thermoluminescence Thermochronometry
Winnie M Musivo wmmusivo1@sheffield.ac.uk  
Mwanja Mwale mmwale1@sheffield.ac.uk The good life? Focusing a capability lens on Zambia's social cash transfer programme
Tarja Rannisto Thrannisto1@sheffield.ac.uk  Wellbeing benefits of sustainable urban woodlands: The significance of aesthetic awareness in cities environmental strategies in terms of people's wellbeing

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