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 Department of Public Administration and Policy

Adam Payler

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

Amparo González

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Gender Dimension in Public Policy for Smallholder Agriculture.

Bryony Rudkin

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Dramaturgy of political decision making in English local government.

Camila Paz Ramos-Fuenzalida

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Performance of collaborative emergency management networks in Latin America.

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.

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.

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

Rebekah Roebuck

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Dissecting the Governance Dynamics of Energy Decarbonisation Decision-Making.

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.