Meet our doctoral researchers

About the project

Read about some of our current and recently graduated doctoral researchers working in each of our four interdisciplinary research themes.

Environment

Agriculture, food and health

• Thanet Markchom: building trustworthy artificial intelligence
• 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
• 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

Doctoral Research Highlights

Each year we collect together a set of short articles about the brilliant research our students are doing. Read our latest Doctoral Research Highlights publication .

Doctoral Research Highlights 2024 publication

We have a number of films on a range of different topics related to doctoral research and our community. Browse our films .

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