PhD supervisors

Please see below for information on staff in the School for Cross-faculty Studies who are currently available to supervise PhD projects and their supervision areas.

	Dr Camilla Audia Assistant Professor (Global Sustainable Development) Email: Camilla dot Audia at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Co-production of knowledge, local knowledge systems, environment-human interactions, South-North cooperation, resilience and local livelihoods, climate change, climate knowledge, arts & science, health and sustainable development. CANNOT CONSIDER FURTHER APPLICANTS FOR 2025-26 - HAS REACHED FULL CAPACITY FOR THIS INTAKE.
	Dr Nicholas Bernards Associate Professor (Global Sustainable Development) Email: N dot Bernards at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Critical political economy/political ecology approaches to sustainable development, especially global governance, finance and development, climate finance, and fintech; Marxist and critical approaches to climate vulnerability and climate action; history of sustainable development and colonialism.
	Dr Romain Chenet Senior Teaching Fellow (Global Sustainable Development) Email: romain dot chenet at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas ‘Sustainable development’ as a contested mythology; Discursive intersections, silences, and exclusions in development policy and practice; Poststructural discourse analysis (via Foucauldian / WPR methods); Neo-Gramscian IR and GPE; Gender and development; Governance, empire, and power/knowledge under late Capital; NGOs in development; Critical and/or alternative approaches (post-development, feminist, degrowth, queer and trans theory, Buddhist economics, ontologies, and cosmologies); Epistemological pluralism / ontological decolonisation; The history, politics, and sociology of development.
	Dr Jonathan Clarke Senior Teaching Fellow (Global Sustainable Development) Email: J dot R dot L dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Sustainable cities: design, risk, resilience, and governance; climate change adaptation; water and future societies; urban development, and sustainable pathways. CURRENTLY UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS FOR A 25/26 START
	Professor Chris Dolan Professor in Global Sustainable Development Email: Chris dot Dolan at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Conflict, conflict-related sexual violence; masculinities; sexualities; political economy; humanitarianism; and forced migration.
	Dr Marta Guerriero Associate Professor (Global Sustainable Development) Email: M dot Guerriero at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Applied economics (development, environment and labour economics); poverty, inequality, empowerment and social protection; governance and social/environmental policy impact evaluation; focus on the Global South. CANNOT CONSIDER FURTHER APPLICANTS FOR 2025-26 - HAS REACHED FULL CAPACITY FOR THIS INTAKE.
	Professor Elena Korosteleva Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development Email: Elena dot Korosteleva at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Resilience, complexity, capacity-building and sustainable development Concepts of partnership, governance and order in IR and Development studies Europe as a global actor, in Development, Environment, Foreign Policy and Security Pluralising and contextualising democracy Relations with Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Central Asia
	Dr Xiaodong Lin Associate Professor (Global Sustainable Development) Email: Xiaodong dot Lin at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Cultural landscapes of care; materiality of care; food and everyday life practices; men and masculinities; gender; ageing; kinship and family relations; migration; education; cultural values; qualitative research; creative art-based research; ethnography; China; East Asia.
	Dr Feng Mao Associate Professor (Institute for Global Sustainable Development) Email: Feng dot Mao at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Water security; river ecosystems; water resources and disasters; resilience; climate adaptation; environmental and social data science; environmental policy and governance; serious games; citizen science; visualisation.
	Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla Professor in Global Sustainable Development Email: S dot Panichelli at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Human rights and social justice in Latin America; Cuban history and culture; South-South cooperation/South-North cooperation; Medical diplomacy; Oral history and Latin America; Oral history and global sustainable development; Education for Sustainable Development; ESG ; Leadership and Sustainable Development.
	Professor Mandy Sadan Not currently able to consider new PhD projects Professor in Global Sustainable Development Email: Mandy dot Sadan at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Humanities and the arts in sustainable development; life stories and oral histories; culture and heritage; gendered economies; visual and material anthropology and museums; conflict and community responses to peace-building; environment and extractive industries; young people and wellbeing in drug-affected communities; borderlands and state-building; ethnic and religious conflict in SE Asia; post-compulsory education in politically marginalised communities.
	Dr Jess Savage Associate Professor (Global Sustainable Development) Email: J dot Savage dot 2 at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas Human-ecosystem interactions; habitat conservation; marine conservation; biodiversity assessment; coral reef ecology; protected area design and assessment; plastic waste management; climate change; and environmental change.
	Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper Associate Professor (Liberal Arts) Email: G dot E dot Schwartz-Leeper at warwick dot ac dot uk Supervision areas 16th century English literary and historical studies, including drama, prose, poetry, religion, and history of the book; higher education pedagogy, especially radical, interdisciplinary, and/or anarchist pedagogies; video game studies, especially projects dealing with apocalyptic/revolutionary studies, history, and/or narrativity.
	Dr Jane Webb Head of School for Cross-faculty Studies Email: Jane.A.Webb@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Material culture histories; design anthropology; design theory; cultural geographies; theory and practice interchange; fashion and dress; collections; intangible histories; memory.
	Dr William Rupp Associate Professor and Head of Liberal Arts (School for Cross-faculty Studies) Email: W.H.Rupp@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Travel and identity formation in 18^th century Britain; antiquarianism; social mobility in early modern society; politeness; gender; landscape and the built environment; pedagogy.
	Dr Ed Loveman Assistant Professor (Design Studies and Global Sustainable Development) Email: edward.loveman@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Sustainability and Sport, Leisure, and Recreation/Play: Alternative narratives and cultures of being and belonging in everyday experience (myth and folklore, and magic and mysticism): Experimental and Radical methodologies; Activist research; Postqualitative research.
	Dr Elizabeth Chant Assistant Professor (Global Sustainable Development) Email: Elizabeth.Chant@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Latin American cultural studies (especially Argentina and Chile), environmental history and aesthetics, landscape history, visual culture, map history, nature tourism.
	Dr Vangelis Pitidis Assistant Professor (Institute for Global Sustainable Development), Convenor of School's Research and Pedagogy Seminar Series, School's Impact Lead Email: Evangelos.Pitidis@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Intersection of urban resilience, governance and citizen science both in the Global North and in the Global South.
	Dr Katie Reeves Teaching Fellow (Global Sustainable Development) and Director of Undergraduate Admissions Email: katie.reeves@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Environmental change, climate change, microplastic contamination within the cryosphere, volcanology, and glaciology.
	Dr Hita Unnikrishnan Assistant Professor (Institute for Global Sustainable Development) and Director of Undergraduate Admissions Email: Hita.Unnikrishnan@warwick.ac.uk Supervision areas Development trajectories on geophysical, political, and cultural transformations of social ecological systems, Sustainability Policy and Environmental Governance, community centric approaches of managing urban social ecological systems.

PhD in Global Sustainable Development

Prior to making your application for the MPhil/PhD in Global Sustainable Development, please identify an appropriate supervisor and make contact directly to discuss whether your proposal falls within their area of expertise and they have capacity to supervise you.

In order to consider supervising they will need a brief outline of your research proposal, a copy of your CV and any relevant transcripts, so please ensure these are sent directly to them. Once supervision is agreed, your application should name the lead supervisor.

Find out more about how to apply for the PhD in Global Sustainable Development.