Current Research Students
A list of current research students within the department is provided below.
Our students receive financial support to undertake their studies from a variety of sources. These include UK Research Councils (particularly ESRC and EPSRC), University funding (both fee waivers and scholarships offering maintenance funding), and overseas governments and funding organisations (e.g. CONACYT for students from Mexico).
Current students come from a range of countries including Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey and the UK.
| Name | Research Area |
|---|---|
| Hannah Bayfield | Exploring the interplay between the cultural, the civic and the community in cultural events |
| Rachael Bust | Safeguarding mineral resources as national assets: a contemporary exploration |
| Cihan Cagil | The Istanbul International Financial Center and World City Planning in Instanbul |
| Aysegul Can | Approaches for new construction in historic environment |
| Ozlem Celik | Remaking of urban poor classes socio-spatially through the recent urban regeneration process in Istanbul |
| Sarah Charlton | Urban dwellers and the state: an exploration of rationalities using the case of low-income housing in Johannesburg |
| Zifei Cheng | Impacts of heritage tourism on local communities in Beijing and synergy between urban upgrading and conservation in the cultural heritage centre. |
| Eunjin Choi | Urban regneration, social capital, community development |
| Tim Crawshaw | Urban world heritage sites: Bath, Edinburgh and Liverpool |
| Annie Cruz-Porter | The digital city |
| Teresa Cunha Gil | Low carbon regions |
| Richard Dunning | Housing search, mobility and the allocation of land for development |
| Tom Ellerton | Redevelopment of urban space |
| Xin Feng | Viticulture in Shaoxing city, China |
| Dalia Gouda | The impact of social Capital on the operation of water user associations |
| Jacob Gower | The politics and policy of tackling energy poverty through international development assistance |
| Andrew Grayson | Challenging concepts of rural economies |
| Farah Haji Mustafa | Tourism planning: “Building Marvel” as the main urban tourism product in attracting visitors |
| Peggy Haughton | Communication, expertise and power in environmental policy work |
| Qiaomin Hong | Floating populations and the urban economy in China |
| Soon-Jo Hwang | Fiscal allocation between central government and local government in terms of balanced development in Korea |
| George Jewitt | A better tomorrow: Paternalism, totalitarianism, democracy |
| Wu-Long Jhuang | Contemporary indigenous hunting, wildlife conservation and indigenous development: A case study of the Turku people in East Taiwan |
| Taehee Lee | The causes and consequences of apartment-led development in South Korea and the possibility for retrofitting and re-design |
| Andy Lockhart | The future of sustainable urbanism and urban climate governance in post-recession Britain |
| Fahyre Loiola | Accounting for risk and uncertainty in the assessment of value for money of urban regeneration public-private partnership projects |
| Chris Maidment | Planning in the Public Interest? |
| Kee-Sook Min | A study of the cross-national comparison and evaluation of income-related housing support policies |
| Emma Morales | Spatial consequences and deterioration of quality of life derived from government urban planning policies with limited public involvement |
| Mary Mwangi | Sustainable urban developments in developing countries: an analysis of effects of housing demand on application of best practices in urban planning, with particular reference to housing developments |
| Tim Neal | Materiality and the landscape aesthetic: an ethnographic study with British migrants in rural France |
| Joanne Oldfield | Low carbon planning |
| Timinyo Owei | Urban politics of energy |
| Kirsten Owen | An exploration of the social consequences of mixed tenure housing |
| Jin Hee Park | Institutional explanations of shaping a particular housing culture in South Korea: a case study of the Kangham District of Seoul |
| Gabriela Perez Ibarra | Social housing developments in Mexico: the dialogue between human behaviour and the built environment |
| Clare Reger | Community-based energy schemes |
| Radmila Schelle | Brazilian rainforests |
| Reyhaneh Shojaei | How interest rates can affect a housing market : assessing the impact of interest rates on development firms and house building activities in Tehran |
| Chloe Skinner | Masculinities and the ‘continuum of violence’: a study of the interplay of structural violence, masculinities and violence against women in East Jerusalem/Al Quds and Cape Town |
| Taekyung Song | Balanced economic and social development among various regions in a country through regional human resource development policies |
| Karwan Taha | The significance of sustainability in future Erbil City urban planning |
| Bjarki Valberg | Understanding Urban Design Cultures: Influence on urban design outcome through urban design practice |
| Xiaoyuan Wan | Community participation in heritage preservation. The case of Beijing, China |
| Rachel Wileman | Infrastructure planning |
| Youhong Yang | Energy conservation and sustainable communities |
| Gareth Young | Social disorder and the built environment |
| Kushtrim Zequiri | Foreign direct investments and economic growth in Kosovo |