Postgraduate Research Students

Mr. Juncheng Qian is a Ph.D. student in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He specializes in exploring the co-benefits of achieving net zero emissions and improving air quality, especially in the housing sector. His research has enabled him to make significant contributions to the fields of climate change, energy transition, sustainability, ...

Naya is a PhD student at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research project focuses on urban subjective wellbeing and its relations to urban planning, active travel, and public transport use in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Cyril is a doctoral student at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (GEES), University of Birmingham, supported by the Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship. He has established collaborative networks, both locally and internationally, aimed at enhancing decision-making processes concerning climate change adaptation and the holistic management of the physical environment.

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Jiajie Fan is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, his main research interests are input-output analysis, foreign direct investment and  sustainable development pathway.

Lihui Ji is an urban geographer with wide-ranging interests in issues related to urban transformation. Her research focuses on gentrification, neighbourhood change, socio-spatial inequality, and urban tourism, particularly how changing urban spaces are experienced, influenced, and imagined in the digital age.

Arooj is a Children's Geographer and community arts practitioner interested in how children and young people's civic participation is affected by contemporary regeneration practices. Through an artistic alias (Artem et Populis) she is conducting research which uses the large-scale regeneration within Thurrock, Essex to understand how changes in the physical, social and cultural landscape in ...

Sudarshan's PhD research investigates the multifaceted nature of energy poverty in Nepal, focusing on variations across rural and urban contexts and its interaction with external shocks, including climate change impacts.

His research interests broadly include energy justice, renewable energy, the capability approach, human development, and climate change.

He has experience working with private, ...

Tom Lewis is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on the interactions between counter-terrorism and pandemic urbanism, and on questions of the affective and atmospheric dimensions of emergency governance and post-disaster urban environments.

Jianchang Li is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Birmingham. He focuses on and stay interested in research projects related to Global Key Industry Emission, Emission Accounting, Decarbonisation and Net-Zero.

Yanzhi is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research interest is the intersection of urban geography, planning, and environmental science. Specifically, he is focusing on the environmental benefits and impacts of urban green infrastructure.

Ruby, currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, is dedicated to investigating the intersection of political economy and spatial geography in relation to air pollution exposure within low-income communities in Nepal's Kathmandu valley. 

Title of PhD: Another New Regionalism? Landscapes of economic governance in the coalition era

Supervisors: Professor John Bryson, Dr Julian Clark

Jacob Salder is conducting research in relation to economic governance and approaches to the implementation and delivery of economic policy in the light of the changing environment under the Coalition Government.

The governance of economic ...

Jinghang Xu is a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her project focuses on accounting for carbon emissions in developing countries and cities.