I am seeking to recruit a PhD student to work with me on the following topics: ‘The IPCC and the spatial ordering of climate change knowledge‘ and (with Dr Irene Lorenzoni) ‘Public perceptions of drought and climate change in southeast England’. Contact me at m.hulme@uea.ac.uk for further information.
I am also interested to receive approaches from students who would like to study for a PhD in the areas of climate change adaptation, representations of climate in the media, and the philosophy of climate. The School of Environmental Sciences publishes details about PhD studentships.
I am currently supervising two PhD students:
- Saffron O’Neill (registered 2004) An iconic approach to representing dangerous climate change
- Neil Jennings (registered 2004) How and why did the possibility of the collapse of the thermohaline circulation emerge as a risk issue in the UK?
I have supervised a further nine PhD students, all of whom have successfully completed their doctorates:
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Vincent Okwany (1991) Climate and vegetation relationships in southwestern Kenya and the potential impacts of a warmer world
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Declan Conway (1993) Climate change and the hydrology of the Nile Basin
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Martin Airey (1996) On the evaluation of precipitation in global climate models
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Elaine Barrow (1999) On the evaluation and construction of climate change scenarios for use in crop-climate models
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Nick Brooks (1999) Dust-climate interactions in the Sahel-Sahara zone of northern Africa, with particular reference to late twentieth century Sahelian drought
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Louise Bohn (2001) (joint supervision) The application and value of climate information in Swaziland
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Tim Mitchell (2001) An investigation of the pattern-scaling technique for describing future climates
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Irene Lorenzoni (2003) (joint supervision) Present choices, future climates: a cross-cultural study of perceptions in Italy and the UK
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Suraje Dessai (2005) Robust adaptation decisions amid climate change uncertainties