Research students

Name	Research area	Email
Michela Balestri	Niche overlap between southern woolly lemurs (Avahi meridionalis) and sportive lemurs (Lepilemur sp.) living in the lowland rainforests of Tsitongambarika, South-Eastern Madagascar	13105414@brookes.ac.uk
Hellen Bersacola	Seeking human-wildlife coexistence: primate community response to anthropogenic activities and land transformation in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa	hellen.bersacola-2015@brookes.ac.uk
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
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
Vasiliki-Georgia Fountana	Identifying the function of stone tools: a multi-method approach to the formation, identification and interpretation of use-wear traces	14108126@brookes.ac.uk
Miguel de Guinea	Navigation patterns in black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) at Palenque National Park, Chiapas, Mexico	miguel.de.guinea.luengo-2016@brookes.ac.uk
Averee Luhrs	Perodicticinae and Primate Origins: Investigating the niche of pottos (Perodicticus spp.) and angwantibos (Arctocebus spp.) in the context of evolutionary theory and the implications for modern-day management	15119993@brookes.ac.uk
Campera Marco	Behavioural and ecological flexibility of collared brown lemurs, Eulemur collaris, in the lowland rainforests of Tsitongambarika, South-Eastern Madagascar	13105423@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
Aimee Oxley	Great ape conservation in the matrix: investigating the impacts of human activities on the socio-ecology of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in a forest-farm mosaic	aimee.oxley-2014@brookes.ac.uk
Stephanie Poindexter	Cognition and Conservation: measuring spatial cognition in slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) and its application to reintroduction practices in South and Southeast Asia	Stephanie.Poindexter-2014@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
Kathleen Reinhardt	Energetics in a changing climate: implication for behavioural and evolutionary adaptations of Nycticebus javanicus	TBC
Peter Roberts	The Asian palm civet: Fundamental baseline findings in ecology, captive husbandry and effects of trade in Kopi Luwak	12084954@brookes.ac.uk
Kat Scott	Orangutans in the New Frontier: Strategies for Survival in Altered Landscapes	TBC
Jaima Hillary Smith	An examination and assessment of current conservation practices for Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch) in West Java, Indonesia	14043209@brookes.ac.uk
Kavi Thakore	A ‘Cosmopolitan’ Financial Transaction Tax	kavi.thakore-2014@brookes.ac.uk

PhD Completions

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