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.
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 Bryan Brazeau
- Reader (Associate Professor) (Liberal Arts)
- Email: B dot Brazeau at warwick dot ac dot uk
Supervision areas
Classical reception; epic; poetics; intersections between literature and science; literature and modernity; Ecocriticism; digital humanities; Dante Studies; Renaissance Literature and Culture (Italy); Tasso Studies.
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
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.
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; culture and global sustainable development.
Professor Mandy Sadan
- 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.
UNABLE TO ACCEPT ANY APPLICATIONS FOR A 24/25 START
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.
UNABLE TO ACCEPT ANY APPLICATIONS FOR A 24/25 START
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 Senior Tutor (School for Cross-faculty Studies)
- Email: W.H.Rupp@warwick.ac.uk
Supervision areas
Travel and identity formation in 18th century Britain; antiquarianism; social mobility in early modern society; politeness; gender; landscape and the built environment; pedagogy.
Dr Ed Loveman
- Teaching Fellow (Design Studies)
- Email: edward.loveman@warwick.ac.uk
Supervision areas
Design of being and belonging, the study of the mundane and everyday, experimental methodologies and creative practice, and particular contexts; sport leisure, and play; myth and folklore; magic and mysticism.
Dr Elizabeth Chant
- Assistant Professor (Global Sustainable Development)
- Email: Elizabeth.Chant@warwick.ac.uk
Supervision areas
Latin American cultural studies, Consumption of 'nature' in the Americas, history, critical theory, art history, anthropology, sociology and modern languages.
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.