Research students

Name	Research area	Email
Huw Houssemayne du Boulay	Post-Soviet, postcolonial: Crimea, national identity and territorial integrity in Russian government discourse 1991–2015	14108144@brookes.ac.uk
Claire Cardinal	Lemur-human coexistence: the impact of human activities on the behaviour and demography of cathemeral lemurs in south-eastern Madagascar	claire.cardinal-2017@brookes.ac.uk
Alexandra Chesters	The Joy of Possessions and Decluttering in Japan and the West	17042659@brookes.ac.uk
Sophie Clare Edwards	A Comparison of Craniodental Morphology of Hominoids of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene in relation to Contemporary Climate Change and Paleoecological Shifts	14101273@brookes.ac.uk
Emma Hankinson	Megafauna Extinction on our watch: Conserving Sumatra ߣ s last remaining elephant populations and their tropical forests	19039459@brookes.ac.uk
Luke Holmes	Exploring experiences of Vietnamese labour migration in the UK and Vietnam: dominant discourses and migrants’ lived experiences	18094223@brookes.ac.uk
Sophie Manson	Quantifying the ecosystem services provided by vertebrates within an agroforest environment in Java, Indonesia	19129228@brookes.ac.uk
Thais Q. Morcatty	A multilateral approach to tackling wildlife trade in South America: people, ecology and conservation Supervisors	thais.queiroz.morcatty-2018@brookes.ac.uk
Sofya Omarova	Trajectories of state and regime development in Central Asia and Caucasus: Informal and formal political institutions	somarova@brookes.ac.uk
Elena Račevska	Lemurs as protectors of the forest: Lemur seed dispersal, forest regeneration and local livelihoods in the littoral forest fragments of Madagascar	elena.racevska-2016@brookes.ac.uk
Kira Raith	Quaternary climate change and landscape evolution of Southeast Arabia	kira.raith-2017@brookes.ac.uk
Sam Hyde Roberts	Behavioural ecology, adaptation and conservation of the Anosy mouse lemur (Microcebus tanosi) in the littoral forests of Sainte Luce, southeastern Madagascar	15137487@brookes.ac.uk
Brittany Carol Rapone	Cultural Influences Behind Exotic Pet Cafés in Japan and their Relation to the International Pet Trade	Brittany.rapone-2018@brookes.ac.uk
Kat Scott	Orangutans in the New Frontier: Strategies for Survival in Altered Landscapes	TBC
Kavi Thakore	A ‘Cosmopolitan’ Financial Transaction Tax	kavi.thakore-2014@brookes.ac.uk
Bethany Watkins	Beneath the moon and under the sun: what the navigational strategies of Eulemur collaris can tell us about the evolution of higher cognition	19034806@brookes.ac.uk
Tim Wakeman	How do Social Movements emerge and bring about social change? A case study of Focus E15	18094747@brookes.ac.uk

PhD Completions

2021

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Jasmin Dall'Agnola	The impact of globalisation on national identities in post-Soviet societies	Dr Sarah Whitmore
Jon Gorrie (Masters by Research)	Does culture evolve? Testing evolutionary theories of culture through a case study of El Khiam points from three sites in the Pre Pottery Neolithic A of the Southern Levant	Dr Simon Underdown
Dr Lucy Vigne	The rhino horn and ivory trade: 1980–2020	Professor Vincent Nijman

2020

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Elena Bersacola	Zooming in on human-wildlife coexistence: primate community responses in a shared agroforest landscape in Guinea-Bissau’	Professor Catherine Hill
Dr Duccio Gasparri	Locals, New-locals, Non-locals: (Re)mapping people and food in post-disaster Ishinomaki, Japan	Professor Jeremy Macclancy Dr Louella Matsanuga
Dr Miguel de Guinea	Navigating in Rainforests: Movement patterns in a neotropical primate the Black Howler Monkey	Professor Anna Nekaris, Dr Alejandro Estrada, Professor Vincent Nijman
Dr Paul Moran	Autonomy in modern Basque art, an anthropological perspective	Professor Jeremy Macclanc
Dr Kathleen Reinhardt	Ecophysiology of a wild nocturnal primate the Javan Slow Loris (Nycticebus Javanicus)	Professor Anna Nekaris
Dr Peter Roberts	‘The Asian Palm Civet: Fundamental Baseline Findings in Ecology, Captive Husbandry and Effects of Trade in Civet Coffee’	Professor Vincent Nijman

2019

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Gisele Arruda	Promoting sustainable energy literacy through higher education for the Arctic	Dr Helen Walkington
Dr Daniel Bergin	Wildlife Trade in Morocco: Conservation, Laws and Welfare	Professor Vincent Nijman
Dr Aimee Oxley	Great Ape Conservation in the Matrix: Investigating the Socialogical responses of chimpanzees living in a forest -farm mosiac, Uganda	Professor Catherine Hill
Dr Jaima Smith	An examination and assessment of current conservation practices for Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch) in West Java, Indonesia	Professor Vincent Nijman

2018

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Michela Balestri	Ecology and conservation of the southern woolly lemur (Avahi meridionalis) in the Tsitongambarika Protected Area, south-eastern Madagascar	Dr Giuseppe Donati
Dr Marco Campera	Ecological flexibilty and conservation of Fleurette's sportive lemur, Lepilemur fleureatae, in the lowland rainforest of Ampasy, Tsitongambarika Protected Area	Dr Giuseppe Donati
Dr Stephanie Poindexter	Navigating the Night: Spatial Cognition. Locomotor and ranging behaviour in Nycticebus species	Professor Anna Nekaris

2017

Name	Title	Directors
Dr (Mhd) Samer Altoutou	The confrontation over Iran’s nuclear programme: nature, scope and legality	Dr John Gold
Dr Francis Cabana	Using feeding ecology to influence captive slow loris (Nyticebus spp.) nutrition and husbandry	Prof Anna Nekaris
Dr Magda Svennson	Conservation and ecology of nocturnal primates: night monkeys, galagos, pottos and angwantibos as case studies	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Malgosia Nowak Kemp	The vertebrate zoological collections of the University of Oxford – studies on the changing nature of collecting, displays, teaching and the role of specimens in research over the last 400 years.	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Aoife Healy	Conservation of ververts, Africa's most ubiquitous primates	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Shane Szarkowski	There is no Afghanistan - the historic indeterminancy of Afghan Sovereign Identity	Prof Gary Browning
Dr James Eaton	Status, distrubtion and conservation of taxonomically cryptic bird species (Aves) across insular South East Asia	Prof Vincent Nijman

2016

Name	Title	Directors
Mattia Cartolano, MSc by Research	Diverse Evolutionary Paths	Prof Adrian Parker, Dr Sam Smith
Dr Samentha Goethals	Business Human Rights Responsibilities and the Situation of Migrant Workers in Britain: a Multi-stakeholder Study	Juliette Koning
Dr Abilene Pitt	New Forms of Power in the World Bank’s Post Washington Consensus Development Policies	Dr Lucy Ford

2015

Name	Title	Directors
Dr David Ehlers Smith	The ecology and conservation of Presbytis Rubicunda	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Eva Johanna Rode-Margono	The ecology of venom use in the Javan Slow Loris (Nycticebus Javanicus) and its implications for conservation	Prof Anna Nekaris
Dr Matthew Hurley	Gendering NATO: Analysing the construction and implementation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s gender perspective	Prof Tina Miller
Dr Matthew Donoghue	‘Cohesion’ in the context of welfare and citizenship: discourse, policy and common sense	Prof Tina Miller
Dr Hannah Parathian	Ethneocology in the Colombian Amazon: Tikuan-Wildlife Interactions in Amacayacu National Park	Prof Catherine Hill
Dr Joana Vaz de Sousa	Shape Shifting nature in a contested landscape in Guinea-Bissau	Prof Kate Hill, Dr Nancy Priston

2014

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Agnieszka Balicka	Changes in International Law in response to terrorist attacks: A comparative study of Israel and US state practice	Dr Tina Managhan
Dr David Hughes	Contemporary US Liberalism in Post Secular Perspective	Prof Gary Browning
Dr Anna Elvidge	Captive breeding programmes for Nocturnal Prosimians	Prof Anna Nekaris
Dr Mansi Desai	Phytoremediation: a tool for restoring land degraded due to opencast coal mining	Dr Martin Haigh
Dr Rihab Alteraifi	Disability, citizenship and education in England	Prof Gary Browning
Dr Paola Esposito	Butch Dance in the UK: an ethnographic performance investigation	Dr Mitch Sedgewick

2013

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Stephanie Oeben	Massively multiplayer online role-playing games in Europe and Japan: a comparative anthropological study	Dr Mitch Sedgewick
Dr Anna Fraser	An Investigation of the Medical Use of Thermo-mineral Springs Found in Misasa Onsen (Japan) & Jachymov (Czech Republic)	Prof Joy Hendry & Dr Chris McDonaugh
Dr Karen Hiser	Crop raiding and conflict: farmers' perceptions of human-wildlife interactions in Hoima District, Uganda	Prof Catherine Hill
Dr Camille Coudrat	Ecology and conservation of docu monkeys (Pygathrix spp.) in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam: a comparative study	Prof Anna Nekaris
Dr Sam Shanee	Conservation and ecology of Andean primates in Peru	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Andrew Watt Perkin	Taxonomy, Biogeography and Conservation of the Cryptic and Endemic Forest Dwelling Taxa of Tanzania and Kenya focusing on Galagos (Primate: Galagonidae), Sengis (Insectivora: Macroscelidea) and Birds (Aves)	Prof Simon Bearder
Dr Rozita Mekanikian	An analysis of the degree of sustainability of desertification control projects within the Iranian national context	Dr Martin Haigh
Dr Ashley Parton	Quaternary Environmental & Climatic Reconstruction from SE Arabia: Implications for Human Dispersal & Occupation	Prof Adrian Parker

2012

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Yvonne Anne De Jong	Taxonomy, diversity, biogeography and conservation of the primates of Kenya amd Tanzania	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Anna Maria Awsiukiewicz	Motherhood experiences through transformations: narratives of intergenerational continuities and changes in Post-Communist Poland	Dr Abigail Halcli
Dr Christopher Shepherd	Illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade in southeast Asia: the effectiveness of CITES as a conservation tool	Prof Vincent Nijman
Dr Richard Moore	Ethics, ecology and evolution of Indonesian Slow Lorises (Nycticebus spp) rescued from the pet trade	Prof Anna Nekaris
Dr Eleanor McDonald	Mothering children with serious vision impairment: agency, disability and 'good' mothering	Prof Tina MIller
Dr Miguel Otero	The Euro vs the Dollar in the political economy of global monetary governance: perceptions of the financial elites in China, the GCC and Brazil	Prof Magnus Ryner
Dr Alexander John Finnan	The international community's management of 'post conflict' with particular reference to Bosnia and Herzegovina	Prof Barrie Axford

2011

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Sebastian Boret	From social to ecological immortality: kinship, identity and death in Japanese tree burial	Prof Joy Hendry
Dr Elizabeth Ann O’Rourke	On Record - exploring social workers' attempts to reconcile competing agendas in the case record	Prof Tina Miller
Dr Emma Claire Rundall	Transsexual People in the UK Workplace: An Analysis of Transsexual men's & Transsexual women's experiences	Prof Tina Miller
Dr Gareth Preston	From nomadic herder-hunters to sedentart famers: the relationship between climate, environment and human societies in the UAE from the Neolithic to the Iron Age	Prof Adrian Parker
Dr Josia Razafndramanana	Behavioural ecology of sympatric lemur species Lemur catta and Eulemur sp. in forest gragments, south-eastern Madagascar	Prof Simon Bearder

2010

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Duncan Green	Active citizens and effective states: definitions and interactions: a critical review	Prof Stephen Hurt
Dr Matthew Mclennan	Chimpanzee ecology and interactions with people in an unprotected human-dominated landscape at Bulindi, West Uganda	Prof Catherine Hill
Dr Ente Jacob Johan	Elephant endurance in Aceh: the effects of habitat disturbance and land cover change on the conservation of Sumatran elephants in Aceh, Indonesia	Prof Vincent Nijman