PhD doctoral researchers

A research degree is a unique opportunity to develop new skills, develop problem-solving abilities and make a valuable contribution to new knowledge.

Current PhD profiles from the Institute of Local Government Studies:

Adam Payler

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Adam Payler is undertaking doctoral research on the relationship between democratic performance and organizational performance.

Adriana Algarin C.

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Adriana Algarin is starting a doctoral research about social accountability and its relation to local government performance and citizen engagement.

Bryony Rudkin

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Dramaturgy of political decision making in English local government.

Camila Ramos

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Camila Ramos-Fuenzalida is a first-year student of the Ph.D. in Local Government and Public Policy with integrated studies at the University of Birmingham.

Eileen Masters

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Audit and Accountability in English Local Councils

Jason Lowther

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Jason is a doctoral researcher looking at how evidence is used in policy making in particular contexts, using the creation of the West Midlands Combined Authority as a case study.

Kevin Harris

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Kevin Harris Doctoral Researcher in School of Government (INLOGOV) profile. Local councils and accessible democracy: stimulating reciprocal citizenship at the local level.

Laurie Duncan

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Interdisciplinary analysis of energy systems, considering technical, economic, social, environmental and policy aspects of small community systems, focussing on reduction of carbon emissions.

Matthew McKenna

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Policy learning in times of failure: How English local government responds at times of central government intervention.

Mega Hendra Waty

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Mega Hendra Waty, Doctoral Researcher in School of Government (INLOGOV) profile. Coexistence of multiple governmental traditions: understanding dilemmas and practices of street-level bureaucrats.

Minkyu Jin

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Minkyu Jin Local Government Studies in School of Government Doctoral Researcher profile. Study on Impact of the Korean Public Institution Management Evaluation System on the Accountability of Korean Public Institutions.

Pak Wan Major Pau

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Disaster risk management and community self-organization in the Asia-Pacific

Philip Swann

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

Sally Ward

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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.

Tangang Andrew Tangang

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Collaborative localism: Community governments in the decentralisation process in Cameroon

Vitaly Voytenko

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Vitaly is researching commercialisation in the English Local Government

Course information: Local Government Studies PhD/MPhil.