Doctoral researchers

Claire Bracegirdle
Learning from community conservation in Ghana.

Ellen Bomasang
Ellen's research aims to understand the perceptions of women of colour working in the international development sector who are experiencing or experienced obstacles.

Frank Forkuo Ababio
Investigating the implications of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) Policy on quality education and academic performance of students in Ghana.

Glanis Changachirere
Subjectivities of Women's Political Participation.

Hermawan
Hermawan is undertaking doctoral research on the relationship between multi-dimensions of decentralised system in Indonesia and corruption of local bureaucrats.

Holly Liebl
Is Social Control through Menstrual Untouchability Changing in Urban Nepal?

Isidore Henry Edet
Contextualising the 'Conceptual-contextual' divide: A Case Study of the Political Culture Influence on Nigeria's Security Sector Reforms.

Jasmine Burnley
Jasmine's PhD research project examines the role played by economies of conflict in Myanmar's political transition, a process interrupted by the sudden military coup in February 2021.

Jiasi Zhou
Governance of socio-technical interactions in smart city development.

Justin Williams
Exploring the effects of a development intervention: the Merhabete Integrated Rural Development Project, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Matt Mirecki
Matt's research project draws upon his extensive and varied experience of working in the fields of international development and local government.

Mia Hyun
The nexus between women in decision-making and leadership and gender responsive development outcomes.

Paul Rogers
Paul's research focuses on how institutions mediate the capabilities of disabled people when confronted by extreme droughts and floods.

Ximing Yang
Local government in China plays a crucial role in urban and rural development, and studying the power dynamics among local governments in developed cities.

Amparo González
Gender Dimension in Public Policy for Smallholder Agriculture.

Camila Paz Ramos-Fuenzalida
Performance of collaborative emergency management networks in Latin America.

Pak Wan Major Pau
Disaster risk management and community self-organization in the Asia-Pacific.

Philip Swann
The Rules of the game: understanding the relationship between politicians in central and local government.

Sally Ward
Sally Ward is undertaking doctoral research investigating temporal patterns of self-organising active citizenship based on the case of an urban neighbourhood in the UK.

Sean Tyrrell
Sean Tyrrell is a research student in the Department of Public Administration and Policy (DPAP) in the School of Government.

Altin Gjeta
The Peace to Statehood Conundrum: Investigating Multiethnic Statebuilding in Kosovo.

André Vella
The Limits of Parliamentary Privilege: Transparency and Accountability.

Bruno Sowden-Carvalho
Bruno Sowden-Carvalho is researching the idea of a global island: emoceans, ontological security and Britain's political subjectivity in world politics.

D'arcy Ritchie
D'arcy Ritchie is a doctoral researchers in the Department of Political Science and International Studies. D'arcy is researching the feminist politics of shame.

Darren Murphy
Understanding the causal mechanisms generating cross-community ratification of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement in the May 1998 referendum.

Edward Affainie
Does (Income) Inequality Predict Conflict Between Ethnic and Religious Groups in Africa?

Elio Di Muccio
State management of technological and economic performance in industry: The Ministry of Technology in Britain, 1964-1970.

Francis Barnett
The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Supporting Russian Foreign Policy Objectives and Shaping Geopolitical and Religious Dynamics in Europe.

Francisco Figueiredo de Souza
South-South Cooperation

Jonathan Pettifer
Norm Contestation and the European Union.

José Pascal da Rocha
José Pascal da Rocha is researching Faultlines of Mediation: The Case of Ukraine 2014 – 2022.

Marianna Karakoulaki
Marianna joined the University of Birmingham in 2019 to study a PhD in International Relations.

Thomas Bobo
The politics of 'green' in civil conflicts: The environment as a political opportunity.

Umer Karim
Saudi Foreign Policy.

Yishu Ren
Yishu Ren's research focusses on the impact of foreign investments from emerging economies on the norms of global environmental governance and considers the resulting political affects.

Viktoria Kobzeva is funded by an ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP Studentship. She is working on a PhD project titled: Activism woven into relations, imbued with emotion: the case studies of Chechen and Azerbaijani transnational activists networks. The doctoral project is a comparative study that fills the gap in post-Soviet Area Studies, with its focus on Caucasian diasporas, activism and transnational communities. Viktoria is supervised by Cerwyn Moore and Deema Kaneff, CREES.

Aleksandre Kvakhadze is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher. His research focuses on violent social movements and transnational activism, examining volunteers from the Caucasus who have participated in hostilities in Syria. He has published work on these and related issues in journals, including Perspectives on Terrorism, and Caucasus Survey, while he also has an extensive record of policy work.  

Leonid Nersisyan is a Gulbenkian Foundation funded doctoral researcher. His research focuses on irregular warfare in Nagorno-Karabakh, and his general areas of research interest include defence analysis, arms control, armed conflict, foreign and military policy in Russia and the CIS region. He has published work on these and related issues in journals and an edited collection (in Russian) while he also has an extensive record of policy work.