Current PhD researchers
The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College has more than 70 PhD researchers.
Adel Almalki
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman
Alanoud Alqasem
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby, Sadia Habib
Alejandra Ortiz Garcia
Supervisors: Antonio Savoia, David Ouattara
Thesis title: Inequality and Growth in Mexico, a Regional Approach
Amir Bagwanje
Supervisors: David Ouattara, Lawrence Ado-Koffie
Andreina Carrillo Espinoza
Supervisors: Tanja Bastia, Uma Kothari
Thesis title: Lejos Pero no Ausente: Exploring Homeland-Oriented Political Mobilisation of Venezuelan Migrants in Spain.
Anifat Ibrahim
Supervisors: Nicola Banks, Maria Rusca
Anna Thurlbeck
Supervisors: Tom Lavers, David Fielding
Anuradha Ganapathy
Supervisors: Richard Heeks, Gianlucia Iazzolino
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
Azim Harun
Supervisors: Gindo Tampubolon, Asri Maharani
Beidi Wu
Supervisors: Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman
Bridgit Kabah
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Kate Rowlands
Thesis title: Best Practices of OECD NGOs and Their Applicability to National NGOs in Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities from Management Perspective
Caroline Cornier
Supervisors: Sophie Van Huellen, Pritish Behuria
Claudio Navarro
Supervisors: David Fielding, Ralitza Dimova
Conghui Han
Supervisors: Osman Ouattara, Lawrence Ado-Koffie
Daniela Cocco Beltrame
Supervisors: Diana Mitlin, Nicola Banks
Dhanapal Govindar Rajulu
Supervisors: Johan Oldekop, Tim Foster (MACE)
Di Liu
Supervisors: Ping Gao, Rory Stanton
Dilek Celebi
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby, Tom Woerner - Powell
Edwin Rwigi
Supervisors: Diana Mitlin, Alice Sverdlik Maria Rusca
Epiphania Kimaro
Supervisors: Jaco Renken, Richard Heeks Natalie Cunningham
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: Seth Schindler
Thesis title: Land Readjustment, Slum Upgrading, and City Competitiveness: Case studies from Medellin, Colombia and San José, Costa Rica
Esteban Valle Riestra
Supervisors: Tomas Frederiksen, Charis Enns
Faiq Faiq
Supervisors: Rory Horner, Shamel Azmeh
Gerald Arhin
Supervisors: Samuel Hickey, Pritish Behuria
Gilead Teri
Supervisors: Seth Schindler, Nicholas Jepson
Gm Sharfaraz
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, David Ouattara
Hairui Liu
Supervisors: Christopher Foster, Ping Gao
Hamid Khalafallah
Supervisors: Tanja Mueller, Pritish Behuria
Isaac López-Moreno Flores
Supervisors: David Fielding, Upasak Das
Isata Massaquoi
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Rory Stanton
Isis Barei-Guyot
Supervisors: Diana Mitlin, Thomas Gillespie
Jeongseong Lee
Supervisors: Admos Chimhowu, Jamie Doucette
Thesis title: Hybrid donorship: Korean aid and the political economy of international development cooperation
Jia Li
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Christopher Rees
Jiacheng Liu
Supervisors: David Lawson, Yin-Fang Zhang
Jianing Song
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Rory Stanton
Thesis title: analyzing the factors affecting the motivation of university teachers in China
Jiaqi Chen
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, Nafisatu Okhade
Judy Hofmeyr
Supervisors: Tomas Frederiksen, John Childs
Julin Liu
Supervisors: Ping Gao, Negar Monazam Tabrizi
Karrar Karrar
Supervisors: Rory Horner, Shamel Azmeh
Larry Amartey
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman
Laura Hirst
Supervisors: Tanja Mueller, Alfredo Stein Heinemann
Thesis title: Understanding fire risk in resource poor urban settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Louis Cyuzuzo
Supervisors: Seth Schindler, Kevin Ward
Luis Oyarzun Ibarra
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Kate Rowlands
Mahtab Uddin
Supervisors: David Fielding, Katsushi Imai
Malte Skov
Supervisors: Tanja Bastia, Oliver Bakewell
Mansoor Alfageer
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman
Maria Jose Ayala Molina
Supervisors: Tanja Bastia, Caitlin Henry
Mariana Hernandez-Montilla
Supervisors: Johan Oldekop, Rose Pritchard, Timothy Foster
Mariyam Anaa Hassan
Supervisors: Uma Kothari
Matt Hanley
Supervisors: Tim Jacoby
Md Moslah Uddin
Supervisors: David Lawson, David Hulme
Thesis title: Impact of Community Mobilization interventions in Reducing Ultra Poverty: Evidence from Targeting the Ultra-Poor Programme (TUP), Bangladesh
Mengfei Zhou
Supervisors: Ping Gao, Negar Monazam Tabrizi
Thesis title: The innovation, strategies, and governance of the platform in China: a service ecosystem perspective
Meshari Alkulaib
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Kate Rowlands
Minjung Park
Supervisors: Richard Heeks, Christopher Foster
Mohamad Sukma
Supervisors: Charis Enns, Rose Pritchard
Mohammad Alsaqabi
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Aminu Mamman
Nabila Hasan
Supervisors: Johan Oldekop, Upasak Das
Namira Samir
Supervisors: David Lawson, David Hulme
Natalia Galvis Arias
Supervisors: Upasak Das, Johan Oldekop Ralitza Dimova
Natalie York
Supervisors: Johan Oldekop, Charis Enns
Nawal Alharbi
Supervisors: Aminu Mamman, David Ouattara
Thesis title: The impact of IT flexibility and IT capability in Business-IT strategic alignment: An empirical study in Saudi Arabia
Neil Mitchell
Supervisors: David Fielding, Tomas Frederiksen
Romasa Rashid
Supervisors: Admos Chimhowu, Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Thesis title: Ultimate and Proximate Determinants of Food Insecurity in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Sandy Nofyanza
Supervisors: Johan Oldekop, Rose Pritchard, Timothy Foster
Sha Lyu
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Kate Rowlands
Shah Ehsan
Supervisors: Mohammad Farhad Hossain
Shuyu Pan
Supervisors: David Fielding, Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Upasak Das
Taiyuan Zeng
Supervisors: Ping Gao, Yin-Fang Zhang
Wei Yu
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Lujia Feng
Weiyi Zhang
Supervisors: Jacobus Renken, Gindo Tampubolon
Whitney Banyai-Becker
Supervisors: Diana Mitlin, Nicola Banks
Thesis title: Movement in situ: an ethnographic exploration of gender relations and urban social movements in Nairobi, Manchester and Denver
Xinlun Jiang
Supervisors: Ping Gao, Yin-Fang Zhang
Thesis title: Analyzing national policy for China's Fin-tech development
Yanlu Huang
Supervisors: Yin-Fang Zhang, Upasak Das
Yi Zhou
Supervisors: Negar Monazam Tabrizi, Ping Gao
Yingqian Wang
Supervisors: Jacobus Renken, Natalie Cunningham
Yu Zhou
Supervisors: Yin-Fang Zhang, Vidhya Unnikrishnan
Yue Zhai
Supervisors: Ping Gao, Rory Stanton
Thesis title: The governance of smart city in China
Yuetong Wang
Supervisors: Kate Rowlands, Christopher Rees
Yuhao Ren
Supervisors: Oliver Bakewell, Yawei Zhao
Yunhao Sun
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Lujia Feng
Yuosif Alkaabi
Supervisors: Christopher Rees, Kate Rowlands
Zhiqiang Zheng
Supervisors: Charis Enns, Rose Pritchard Johan Oldekop