We are home to many postgraduate research students working on a wide range of sustainability-related research projects.
Zarina Ahmad
Zarina will work with Sherilyn, Nafhesa and Catherine on the Leverhulme sponsored project on Environmental Sustainability in Immigrant Households. Zarina was listed at Number 18 in the Women’s Hour Power List in 2020 for her work on increasing participation in environmentalism in Scotland.
- John AndrewsJohn is a doctoral researcher at Alliance Manchester Business School working on sustainable food system transitions, with a focus on veganism and 'alternative proteins'. He is particularly interested in the intersection of sustainability transitions and social movement studies.View profile
- Hannah BattersbyHannah Battersby is a PhD student in the Philosophy department at the University of Manchester. Her research concerns ecological justice and the extension of justice to the more-than-human community.View profile
- Chantal V. BrightPhD candidate in Human Geography. Research entitled “Water Security, Peace and Fragility in Liberia: An African Ecofeminist Approach”. Supervised by Dr Alison Browne (Primary), Dr Jonathan Huck and Dr Laura Mcleod. MA, University of Pennsylvania in Environmental Management and BA, Seton Hall University in English Literature and Political Science (Dual Course).View profile
Caroline Cornier
Caroline Cornier is a doctoral researcher at the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester. Her research is located at the intersection of Global Political Economy and Postcolonial Theory focusing on economic, political and financial North-South relations. Her doctoral thesis concerns the unsustainable intersection of commodity dependence and financial subordination in the West African Cocoa Sector.
Anowyesha Dash
Anowyesha is a PhD researcher associated with Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Sustainable Consumption Institute. Her research explores a circular business model framework for the seafood sector in India. This follows on from her research study on coastal marine fishing communities in Odisha (India) wherein she conducted a challenges-mapping exercise for institutional strengthening and livelihood development. Through her research, Anowyesha aims to identify innovative business models for micro and small enterprise development for socio-economic wellbeing in the Global South.
Karl Holmberg
Karl Holmberg is a PhD student from the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden, who is visiting the SCI during the spring semester of 2024. His research explores the cultural political economy of plastics, focusing on how (single-use) plastics came to be rationalised in Sweden from 1945-1970 in the wake of the emergence of ideas of disposability and consumerism.
Paul Anthony Knowles
Paul Anthony Knowles is a PhD student in the English and American Studies department and his research is focused on the short story and ecocriticism. He is concerned with how literature can expose the anthropocentric violence inflicted on the past, present, and future of a landscape and his research promotes an ecocentric reconceptualization of human relationships with the more-than-human world.
- Anna-Maria KöhnkeAnna-Maria completed both her MA in Political Economy (Research Route) and her BA (Hons) in PPE at the University of Manchester.View profile
- Topo MokokwaneTopo is a PhD candidate in the Sociology department. His research explores sustainability and environmental crises through the lens of language, particularly its role in constructing worldview and its deeply intimate relation with the material environment.View profile
Magdalena Svetlana Rodekirchen
Magdalena graduated from The University of Manchester with a MSc in International Development: Environment, Climate Change and Development.
- Pawan Kumar SrikanthPawan Kumar Srikanth joined AMBS and the SCI as a fully funded PhD student in January 2022 researching pathways to circulating critical metals. He holds an M.E. in Environmental Engineering and a B.E. in Civil Engineering.View profile
- Alice SwiftAlice Swift is undertaking a PhD in Sociology at the University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.View profile
- Samuel ToscanoSam's current research focuses on how sustainability communications influence the ways that consumers imagine climate action.View profile
- Heather UrquhartHeather Urquhart began her PhD with the University of Manchester in September 2021 after completing a MRes in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow and a BA (Hons) In Human Geography at Durham University.View profile
- Stanley WilshireStanley is a political economist and PhD student interested in the relationships between the political, economic and technical challenges involved in driving rapid and just transitions within capitalist societies.View profile
- Linqing XiaLinqing Xia is a Sociology PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Welch and Alison Browne. Her doctoral research mainly focuses on the teleoaffective formations of sustainable consumption in relation to China’s postmodern consumer culture.Read more
- Pujita YadavaPujita is PhD student associated with Sustainable Consumption Institute and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (with MACE).View profile
- Chunhua YeChunhua Ye graduated from Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK, with an MSc in Marketing.View profile
