Current PhD candidates
Funded PhD students and their research areas and supervisors.
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Our PhD candidates 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 (for example, CONACYT for students from Mexico).
Name | Research area | Primary supervisor | |
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Enes Aydin | eaydin1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Redefining Socio-Spatial Inequalities through Comparative Urban Policy Analysis in London and Berlin |
Stephen Hincks |
Helen Brown | hlbrown2@sheffield.ac.uk | Understanding attitudes and perceptions amongst older people of housing and housing processes in an era of rising demand | Malcolm Tait |
James Beaumont | jbeaumont4@sheffield.ac.uk | Out-of-area displacement: Exploring how England’s housing system is shaping new forms of urban marginalisation | Jenny Preece |
Cihan Cagil | trp11ctc@sheffield.ac.uk |
Changes in Inter-State Authority Relations in Contemporary Metropolitan Governance |
David Robinson |
Juliet de Little | jmdelittle1@sheffield.ac.uk | Planning for resilience under multi-stakeholder risk management | Liz Sharp |
Hoda Elhalaby | haelhalaby1@sheffield.ac.uk | The effect of NGOs interventions on urban villages in Egypt | Steve Connelly |
Mónica Martin Grau | mmartingrau1@sheffield.ac.uk | Urban frictions: prosperity turns within Nairobi’s water tinkering practices | Vanesa Castan Broto |
Francesca Guarino | fguarino1@sheffield.ac.uk | Othered people in othered places: a critical and situated exploration of the challenges of cultural diversity in Palermo | Ryan Powell |
George Jewitt | g.jewitt@sheffield.ac.uk | A better tomorrow: paternalism, totalitarianism, democracy | Peter Bibby |
Xinyu Jin | xjin22@sheffield.ac.uk | Safeguarding the Past, Embracing the Future An Examination of Alternative Development Strategies for Chinese Historic Urban Quarters | Beth Perry |
Chan-Woo Kim | cwkim1@sheffield.ac.uk | Commercial real estate rental markets in Europe | Craig Watkins |
Stephanie Lacey | svlacey1@sheffield.ac.uk | The impact of female homelessness on children's educational experiences in inner-city schools | Michele Lancione |
Wanying Li | WLi94@sheffield.ac.uk | Residential Redevelopment: Eviction and the reconstruction of space in the lower half of Chongqing, China | Amparo Tarazona Vento |
Mateus Lira | mateus.lira@sheffield.ac.uk | The politics of resettlement and occupations in Brazil | Jonathan Silver |
Emma Mahoney | elmmahoney1@sheffield.ac.uk | Understanding Power in Urban Climate Governance: The Case of Sheffield, South Yorkshire | Madeleine Pill |
camalpass1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Schools as sites for integrated community food action |
Beth Perry | |
Abraham Mariech | AMMariech1@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing and disability within urban informality in Eldoret, Kenya | Paula Meth |
Michael Marshall | mmarshall7@sheffield.ac.uk | Financialisation, regulation and asset management in English housing associations | Stephen Hincks |
Charly H Morris | chmorris1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Migrant youth activisms: de-bordering practices and urban solidarities in re-imagining the city |
Ryan Powell |
Naomi Oates | nemoates1@sheffield.ac.uk | Water service provision practices in Malawi | Steve Connelly |
Inken Oldsen-thor Straten | ioldsen-thorstraten1@sheffield.ac.uk | An analysis of local authorities and property developers’ relations shaping spatial change in Cape Town and Johannesburg | Paula Meth |
Marion Oveson | m.a.oveson@sheffield.ac.uk | Civic universities and social justice | Lee Crookes |
Jenny Patient | jspatient1@sheffield.ac.uk | Trade Unions and a 'just' transition to low carbon | Beth Perry |
Martyna Piliszewska | mppiliszewska1@sheffield.ac.uk | Why do they stay? Exploring the reasons why homeless Polish migrant workers remain in a state of prolonged destitution in post-Brexit Britain | Michele Lancione |
Rahul Raj | rraj1@sheffield.ac.uk | Political Ecologies of Caste, Class and Precarious Labour in Indian Cities | Glyn Williams |
Holly Rooke | hkrooke1@sheffield.ac.uk | Migration, Cities and Inequality | Melanie Lombard |
Sri Suryani | ssuryani1@sheffield.ac.uk | Displacements and urban water infrastructure in Jakarta, Indonesia | Michele Lancione |
Xiao Tang | xtang21@sheffield.ac.uk | Investigation of how land use/cover change impact on housing price at Megaregion | |
Stephany Mercedes Vargas-Rojas | smvargasrojas1@sheffield.ac.uk | Governing forced migration in Colombia's peace transition: integrating urban resettlement and housing in the Llano Verde housing state in Cali, Colombia | |
avazquez1@sheffield.ac.uk |
Making Sense of Socio-Spatial Inequality: A Qualitative Study of Geographical Proximity and Social Distance in Buenos Aires
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Melanie Lombard | |
Nan Wang | nwang30@sheffield.ac.uk | Understanding the role of peer-to-peer accommodation in disrupting the neighbourhood: A new form of gentrification | Stephen Hincks |
Nancy Marcia L. Wilson | nmwilson1@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing discrimination in the Sheffield metropolitan area, 1960s to the present | Tom Goodfellow |
Yu-Tung Wu | YWu165@sheffield.ac.uk | Housing and intergenerational inequality in the Taipei metropolitan area | Ryan Powell |
Said Zaaneen | SYSZaaneen1@sheffield.ac.uk | Urban refugee camps in the Gaza Strip | Tom Goodfellow |
Rong Zheng | rzheng10@sheffield.ac.uk | Exploring Children’s Nature-Based Place Attachment in High-density Metropolitan Areas | Liz Sharp |