Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. This month we introduce Meena Menon who is the joint recipient of our 12th S.P.R.I.N.G competition. PhD title: Social Movements and Local Sovereignty in the Age of Transnational Capital and Ecological Devastation in Postcolonial India. School of History Supervisors: Professor William...
Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. This month we introduce Liam Taylor, who is the joint recipient of our 12th S.P.R.I.N.G competition. PhD title: Using a new generation of remote sensing techniques to monitor Peru’s mountain glaciers School of Geography Supervisors: Dr Duncan Quincey, Dr Mark...
Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. This month we introduce Sebastian Stroud PhD title: Ecosystem services associated with aquatic plants in urban landscapes School: Biology, Faculty of Biology Supervisors: Dr Chris Hassall, Dr Julie Peacock Tell us a bit about yourself: I grew up in Tunbridge...
Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. This month we introduce Oliver Grasham PhD: Assessment of novel utilisation pathways for biogas and nitrogenous waste streams at wastewater treatment plants School: School of Chemical and Process Engineering Supervisors :Valerie Dupont, Miller Alonso Camargo-Valero, Timothy Cockerill Tell us a bit...
Our monthly spotlight on the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers. This month we introduce: Alesia Ofori Dedaa PhD Project Title: Political Ecology of Water-Mining Nexus School: School of Politics and International Studies Supervisors: Prof Anna Mdee School of Politics and International Studies, Dr James Van Alstine School of Earth and...
I am Taco Regensburg, a 34 year old Dutchman. My PhD project focuses on the hydrological connectivity between subsurface drainage networks (soil pipes) and streams in a heavily degraded blanket peat. My supervisors are water@leeds Professors Joe Holden and Pippa Chapman. Over the past six month I have split my time between sample / data...
Our monthly series spotlighting the work and lives of the next generation of water@leeds researchers Stephanie Bradbeer Faculty of Biological Sciences Supervisors: Dr Alison Dunn, Dr Claire Quinn Tell us a bit about yourself: Born and raised in Bristol, prior to coming to Leeds I completed my BSc in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter (w/study...
Congratulations to Murat Okumah, PhD student at the Sustainability Research Institute, who is the winner of the 11th water@leeds SPRING Award. SPRING is the acronym for 'Supporting Postgraduate Research to Inspire the Next Generation'! It is a postgraduate research funding competition developed by water@leeds through its Doctoral Research and Training Centre which is open to...