Read about some of our current and recently graduated doctoral researchers working in each of our four interdisciplinary research themes.
Environment
- Sam Laryea: building foundations in Africa
- Marek Kubik: renewable energy: creating a sustainable future
- Natalya Sergeeva: exploring narratives of innovation in the UK construction sector
- Simon Lee: measuring the impact of climate changes on aircraft turbulence
- Ben Woden: understanding cloud chemistry
- Godwin Ayesiga: improving weather forecasting in East Africa in a highly-supportive environment
- Irene Teixidor-Toneu: medicinal plant use in developing countries
- Joanna Baker: integrating extinct and extant diversity into macro-evolutionary analyses
- Oliver Ellingham: identification methods of the powdery mildew fungus
- Rosalie Callway: Building support for greener neighbourhoods
Agriculture, food and health
- Ruth Barnes: when healthy foods go wrong
- Luke Bell: rocket science: phytochemical, postharvest, shelf-life & sensory attributes of rocket species
- Nurul Aqilah Binti Mohd Zaini: production of D-lactic acid from dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS)
- Maitreyee Wairagkar: helping people with disabilities through the power of the mind
- Willemijn Doedens: improving communication for people with acquired brain injury
Prosperity and resilience
- Faye Bird, stepping into the world of academia
- Shamsa Al Sheibani: the pursuit of innovation
- Lisa Schopohl: essays on pension funds and responsible investment
- Neha Hui: labour market and well-being constraints facing sex workers
- Oluyemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun: ethical dimensions of organisational culture
Heritage and creativity
- Matt Fittock: detecting the buried secrets of our past
- Mark Player: Japanese punk film production
- Vaibhav Singh: Devanagari type in the twentieth century
- Geraldine Ng: moral views of the influential philosopher Bernard Williams
- Monica Palmero-Fernandez: the realm of goddesses in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Evan Hayles Gledhill: "Deviant subjectivities": The monster and the child in Gothic imagination
You can also read more profiles of our students in the Doctoral Research Highlights 2021 brochure (PDF, 1.5 MB).
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