Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
| Name | Thesis Title |
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| Sugandha Agarwal | Resilience among women Rohingya refugees in India. |
| Abbey Atkinson | Women's progression to senior management in the UK insurance market |
| Thomas Bosak | Potent connections with celestial bodies: Belonging to humanity and the meanings of astral objects in everyday life. |
| Lauren Bramley | Graduate Outcomes for Widening Participation Students |
| Thomas Chadwick | Privilege in pain: Male vulnerability in gender politics. |
| Chi-ting Chuang |
Negotiating filial responsibilities and relationships with ageing parents: the case of married gay and lesbian couples |
| Ashley Collar |
The Bees Still Buzz: Reviving Resilience and ‘Mancunian Spirit’ in Post-Terror Communities |
| Alexus Davis | Mapping violence in maternal care: An examination of the intersections of systematic violence and birth violence on obstetric care outcomes. |
| Dominic Deane | DIY scenes in West Yorkshire: Independent music in post-industrial Leeds and Bradford. |
| Deniz Diler | The Biopolitics of Industrial Chicken: Accumulation, Health and Disease in Capitalist Poultry Production |
| Lin Ding | Gender and class differences in the family investment in creative behaviour: a study of social reproduction of creativity in rural China. |
| Julia Enneoka | Mixed heritage, ethnic/'racial' and cultural identity and placement matching in fostering and adoption policy, practice and service delivery. |
| Yu Feng | Insecurity and Anxiety of the new Chinese Middle Class |
| Daniela Fazio Vargas | Experiencing a Song: the Political and Aesthetic Possibilities of Art |
| Kristian Fuzi | Precarious employment and pension planning. |
| Martin Greenwood | Postcapitalism and the Post Office: The role of public services in utopian futures |
| Ryan Harries | Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Practice |
| Tess Hartland | Urbanisation and population ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on ageing in place in cities |
| Yannan He | Parental Networks in Schools in China |
| Hannah Gregson | A qualitative investigation into the long term impacts of trans-vaginal mesh complications. |
| Madiha Khan | Education and identity dynamics in a conflict zone. |
| Aleksandr Lange | Dating, love, and subjectivity in the age of digital capitalism |
| Manuela Latchoumaya |
French Citizens of Indian Descent: Resisting Invisibility and Claiming Space in Hexagonal France Through the Creation of Diasporic Identities |
| Jianyu Li |
A qualitative study of sibling relations in Chinese urban families after the change of population policy |
| Xin Li | The Digital Pathways and Transformation of Chinese Cities in the Short-video Era: A TikTok Case Study |
| Liu Xiyuan | Education subsidy, urban-rural division and migrant students in China. |
| Subrata Kumar Mallick |
Stigma, Family Life and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Perspectives from Parents in Bangladesh |
| Hala Marshood |
Race, Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism: The Case of the May 2021 Palestinian Uprising |
| Kim McFalone | A culture of silence: Lived experiences of rape culture in the everyday lives of Northern Irish women |
| Thabiso Mokokwane | The Nexus of Culture and Ecology in Sustainability |
| Morgan Powell | Within and against precarisation: Forms of mobilisation and resistance amongst workers in the UK's gig economy. |
| Mauricio Renteria Gonzales | The Colour of Social Mobility: The cultural and racial imprints of ascending trajectories within the Peruvian upper class |
| Joana Salles | Urbanisation and population ageing: Interdisciplinary perspectives on ageing in place in cities |
| Manish Sen | Negotiating ethnicity and sexuality: The experiences of British South Asian young gay, bi, and queer men |
| Shan Shi | The Persistence of Chinese Alternative Rock: A Social Network Analysis of BADHEAD 1999-2023 |
| Lucie Slamova | Radical Left in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Tetyana Solovey | Disgust to repair. Affects and worn clothes through fashion upcycling practice |
| Jamie Stevenson | In the shadow of Grenfell: Residents, representations and social housing in London. |
| Alice Swift | What is the role of infrastructure and social reproduction within the British and German direct action protest camp environmental movements? |
| Wenxi Tang | Interrogating social inequalities: family conditions, educational attainment and career outcomes in China |
| Miriam Tenquist | The Age friendly movement policy in Manchester:Sustainable changes to Active Ageing: A longitudinal study |
| Ryan Wattam | Working-class subculture and aspiration. |
| Arsène Werlen | Trans experiences of care and identity on contemporary Mancunian clubbing scenes |
| Jonas Weselake-George | Transforming cultural appropriation discourses through Cree and Anishinaabe traditions |
| Peter White | How has the withdrawal of the NHS bursary impacted the rate of enrolment of students with widening participation characteristics into nursing education in the UK? |
| Pippa Winship | Ageing in Place in neighbourhoods undergoing urban regeneration: participatory approaches for diverse groups |
| Yongyi Wu |
Digital divide between urban youths and rural youths in china |
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Sustainable Consumption in Relation to China's Consumer Culture |
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Lidia Yáñez Lagos |
Understanding the role of individual responses to repression in regimes characterised by systematic state violence: Theoretical contributions from the "Chile Desperto" movement case |
| Menglu Zhang | The consequences of using social media and internet upon the academic performance of left-behind children in China. |
| Ernestina Zhu (Xinyi) | Non-fungible Tokens and Digital Identity in Virtual and Reality Interaction |
| Hai Zhu | Organised Crime and Civil Society: a mutual neglect |