Current PhD researchers
The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College has more than 70 PhD researchers.
Abdullah Albagieh
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Capacity building in local African NGOs by Arabian Gulf international charities
Abiola Olatunji
Supervisors: Lawrence Ado-Kofie, David Ouattara
Thesis title: Essays on Infrastructural Development in Developing Countries
Adel Almalki
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Alejandra Ortiz Garcia
Supervisors: David Ouattara, Antonio Savoia
Thesis title: Inequality and Growth in Mexico, a Regional Approach
Amir Bagwanje
Supervisors: David Ouattara, Lawrence Ado-Koffie
Andreina Carrillo Espinoza
Supervisors: Uma Kothari, Tanja Bastia
Thesis title: Lejos Pero no Ausente: Exploring Homeland-Oriented Political Mobilisation of Venezuelan Migrants in Spain.
Anna Thurlbeck
Supervisors: Tom Lavers, David Fielding
Arfan Winasis
Supervisors: David Ouattara, Admos Chimhowu
Armando Caroca Fernandez
Supervisors: Tomas Frederiksen, Erik Swyngydouw
Astria Nabila
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby, Gindo Tampoboulon
Avinash Rao
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Christopher Rees
Thesis title: Employee Value Proposition and Its Impact on Employee Attractiveness and Employee Retention – A Cross Industry Segment Analysis in the Indian Private
Beletchei Ebia
Supervisors: Rory Horner, Tanja Bastia
Thesis title: Upgrading Traders in GVCs: Togolese Women Traders and the Sale of African Print Textiles
Bethany Coleman
Supervisors: Thomas Lavers, David Hulme
Thesis title: Sustainable development for whom? The politics of future hydropower in Tanzania
Supervisors: Richard Heeks, Richard Duncombe
Thesis title: Institutional Change and Emerging Digital Platforms in Agricultural Development: A Nigerian Case Study
Bridgit Kabah
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Best Practices of OECD NGOs and Their Applicability to National NGOs in Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities from Management Perspective
Clare Cummings
Supervisors: Thomas Lavers, Samuel Hickey
Thesis title: Understanding power relations and institutional change; a critical take on political settlements analysis
Claudio Navarro
Supervisors: Ralitza Dimova, David Fielding
Dhanapal Govindar Rajulu
Supervisors: Tim Foster, Johan Oldekop
Di Liu
Supervisors: Rory Stanton, Ping Gao
Dilek Celebi
Supervisors: Tom Woerner-Powell, Tim Jacoby
Duaa Alshareef
Supervisors: Kelechi Ekuma, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Developing the management of kindergarten Institutions in the light of Strategic Management Approach in k.S.A
Epiphania Kimaro
Supervisors: Jaco Renken, Natalie Cunningham, Richard Heeks
Thesis title: Influence of organizational practices and conditions on people performance and project outcomes in ICT4D organizations: Cases from Tanzania and Kenya
Erika Garcia
Supervisors: Admos Chimhowu, Seth Schindler
Thesis title: Land Readjustment, Slum Upgrading, and City Competitiveness: Case studies from Medellin, Colombia and San José, Costa Rica
Gabriele Restelli
Supervisors: Alessia Isopi, David Ouattara
Thesis title: The effects of foreign aid on international migration to Europe
Gerald Arhin
Supervisors: Pritish Behuria, Samuel Hickey
Supervisors: Seth Schindler, Nicholas Jepson
Gm Sharfaraz
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Osman Ouattara
Godfred Amankwaa
Supervisors: Alison Browne, Richard Heeks
Thesis title: From policies to practicalities? Digitisation of water services in Ghana
Guannan Li
Supervisors: Asri Maharani, Gindo Tampubolon
Thesis title: The Effect of Aged Adult Child Caregivers on Life Satisfactions and Well being of the Oldest-old in Different Social Classes:Longitudinal evidence from CLHLS
Ibrahim Al Oqail
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Role of Leadership in Public Sector Organisational Change: The Case of Health Sector in Najran Region
Isaac López-Moreno Flores
Supervisors: Upasak Das, David Fielding
Isis Barei-Guyot
Supervisors: Thomas Gillespie, Diana Mitlin
Jeongseong Lee
Supervisors: Jamie Doucette, Admos Chimhowu
Thesis title: Hybrid donorship: Korean aid and the political economy of international development cooperation
Jianing Song
Supervisors: Rory Stanton, Aminu Mamman
Thesis title: analyzing the factors affecting the motivation of university teachers in China
Judy Hofmeyr
Supervisors: Tomas Frederiksen, John Childs
Julin Liu
Supervisors: Negar Monazam Tabrizi, Ping Gao
Kaiyu Xu
Supervisors: Yin-Fang Zhang, Ping Gao
Thesis title: The research of the Crowd funding Ecosystem in China
Kubra Mertek
Supervisors: Roisin Read, Tim Jacoby
Thesis title: The Post-Cold War Era and The Humanitarian Principles: An Analysis of the ICRC¿ s Discourse in The Syrian Civil War
Larry Amartey
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman
Laura Hirst
Supervisors: Stephen Jordan, Alfredo Stein Heinemann, Tanja Mueller
Thesis title: Understanding fire risk in resource poor urban settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Louis Cyuzuzo
Supervisors: Seth Schindler, Kevin Ward
Luis Rivera Illingworth
Supervisors: Jaco Renken, Richard Heeks
Thesis title: The Digital Divide in the Era of Big Data: New Dimensions and Measurements
Magaly Duarte Urquhart
Supervisors: David Lawson, David Ouattara
Thesis title: Three empirical essays on Public Debt
Mahtab Uddin
Supervisors: David Fielding, Katsushi Imai
Malte Skov
Supervisors: Oliver Bakewell, Tanja Bastia
Mansoor Alfageer
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Christopher Rees
Thesis title: Building Citizenship in Chile: Analysing the impact of dictatorial and post-dictatorial educative policies in the citizenship behaviours manifested by school districts' staff
Maria Bohada Rodriguez
Supervisors: Uma Kothari, Tanja Bastia
Thesis title: Understanding how conflict-induced displacement shapes human agency: a case study in Colombia
Maria Jose Ayala Molina
Supervisors: Caitlin Henry, Tanja Bastia
Mariyam Anaa Hassan
Supervisors: Uma Kothari
Matt Hanley
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby
Md Moslah Uddin
Supervisors: David Hulme, David Lawson
Thesis title: Impact of Community Mobilization interventions in Reducing Ultra Poverty: Evidence from Targeting the Ultra-Poor Programme (TUP), Bangladesh
Mengfei Zhou
Supervisors: Negar Monazam Tabrizi, Ping Gao
Thesis title: The innovation, strategies, and governance of the platform in China: a service ecosystem perspective
Mohammad Alsaqabi
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Christopher Rees
Mohammad Asad-Uz-Zaman
Supervisors: David Lawson, Antonio Savoia
Thesis title: Leadership Styles and Organizational Performance: A Case Study of SMEs in Kuwait
Mohd Helmi Abu Yahya
Supervisors: Sarah Hall, Diana Mitlin
Thesis title: Homelessness and the Political Agenda in Southeast Asia: The Case Study of Malaysia
Namira Samir
Supervisors: David Lawson, David Hulme
Nawal Alharbi
Supervisors: David Ouattara, Aminu Mamman
Thesis title: The impact of IT flexibility and IT capability in Business-IT strategic alignment: An empirical study in Saudi Arabia
Neil Mitchell
Supervisors: Tomas Frederiksen, David Fielding
Othman Usman
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Kelechi Ekuma
Romasa Rashid
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Admos Chimhowu
Thesis title: Ultimate and Proximate Determinants of Food Insecurity in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Rukaiyatu Jungudo
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Development of a strategy for reintegrateing internally displaced pupils in mainstream schools: A case study of North-eastern and South-southern Regions of Nigeria
Samuel Stratford
Supervisors: Nicholas Jepson, Thomas Lavers
Thesis title: The development and role of Uganda's hydraulic bureaucracy
Sarah Redicker
Supervisors: Timothy Foster, Ralitza Dimova
Thesis title: The economics of dams and their impact on irrigation systems and agricultural livelihoods
Sha Lyu
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Christopher Rees
Solahudeen Moomin
Supervisors: David Ouattara, Aminu Mamman
Thesis title: Development Partners in Ghana's Democratic and Public Policy Space; Partnership or Patronage?
Thanh Bui
Supervisors: Katsushi Imai, Ralitza Dimova
Thesis title: Essays on empirical development economics
Thomas Agyekum Kyeremeh
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Collaborative Governance Approach towards Decentralising Climate Change Policies into Local Assembly's Development Plans in Ghana
Wei Yu
Supervisors: Lujia Feng, Christopher Rees
Whitney Banyai-Becker
Supervisors: Nicola Banks, Diana Mitlin
Thesis title: Movement in situ: an ethnographic exploration of gender relations and urban social movements in Nairobi, Manchester and Denver
Xinlun Jiang
Supervisors: Yin-Fang Zhang, Ping Gao
Thesis title: Analyzing national policy for China's Fin-tech development
Yidian Meng
Supervisors: Yin-Fang Zhang, Lawrence Ado-Kofie David Lawson
Thesis title: How Gender inequality in Individual Level Result in consequences to Aggregate Economic Performance
Yue Zhai
Supervisors: Rory Stanton, Ping Gao
Thesis title: The governance of smart city in China
Yuetong Wang
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Christopher Rees
Yunhao Sun
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Lujia Feng
Yuosif Alkaabi
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Kate Rowlands