I am seeking to recruit graduate students to work with me on the following PhD topics:
‘The origins and roles of ‘two degrees of warming’ as a boundary object‘
The desire for climate control: a study of its cultural, historical and political implications‘
‘Understanding adaptation to climate in the UK: 1800-2000‘ (with Dr Paul Warde, School of History)
‘‘Normal’ and ‘abnormal’ climates: understanding their social, psychological and statistical constructions‘ (with Dr Irene Lorenzoni).
Contact me at m.hulme@uea.ac.uk for further information about these projects.
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. Please state clearly your areas of interest. The UEA School of Environmental Sciences publishes details about other PhD studentships and about general opportunities for PhD funding.
Current PhD students:
Lucy Fisher (starting Sep ‘09): Comparative cultural influences on the constructions of climate change knowledge: Peru and the UK
Martin Mahoney (starting Sep ‘10): The IPCC and the spatial ordering of climate change knowledge
I have previously supervised eleven PhD students, all of whom have successfully completed their doctorates. These students are listed below. I have acted as an external or internal examiner for a further thirteen PhD theses.
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Saffron O’Neill (2008) An iconic approach to representing dangerous climate change
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Neil Jennings (2008) How and why did the possibility of the collapse of the Thermohaline Circulation emerge as a risk issue in the UK, and with what potential consequences?
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Suraje Dessai (2005) Robust adaptation decisions amid climate change uncertainties
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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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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
- 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
- Martin Airey (1996) On the evaluation of precipitation in global climate models
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Declan Conway (1993) Climate change and the hydrology of the Nile Basin
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Vincent Okwany (1991) Climate and vegetation relationships in southwestern Kenya and the potential impacts of a warmer world