PhD students
Who's who
Our PhD students are affiliated to our three research clusters.
PhD graduates and theses
Lindiwe Rennert
PhD in Regional and Urban Planning
Next Steps in the March Toward Transit Equity: Essays on the Seen and Unseen Impacts of Public Transit on our Suite of Life Experiences Conditional on Facets of our Identities
Pia-Katherina Andres
PhD in Environmental Economics
Essays on Trade, Competitiveness and Innovation in the Transition to Clean Technology
Muhammad Yorga Permana
PhD in Economic Geography
The Economic Geography of the Gig Economy in Indonesia
Ran Wei
PhD in Regional and Urban Planning
Heritage construction in China: Negotiation and contestation of decision-making and heritage discourses
Marina Nazneen
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Who’s getting what? The dynamics of power, patronage, and clientelism in climate change adaptation initiatives in Bangladesh
Martin Munene
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Transboundary Climate and Adaptation Risk Governance
Julien Picard
PhD in Environmental Economics
The Side Effects of Green Soft Policies
Dalia Gebrial
PhD in Human Geography
Racial Platform Capitalism: Race, Labour and the Making of Platform Infrastructures
Yoonai Han
PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Moving in stuckness: ethnography on the time-space of short-term workers in Seoul
Timo Leiter
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Assessing the implementation progress of adaptation to climate change
Lukáš Makovský
PhD in Economic Geography
Applications of Quantitative Spatial Models in Spatial and Urban Planning
Rebecca Maria Mari
PhD in Economic Geography
Private credit, public investment and natural disasters: creating and destroying private capital at local level
Margarida Bandeira Morais
PhD in Economic Geography
Economic Complexity and Regional Development: Critical Essays
Martina Pardy
PhD in Economic Geography
Essays on regional inequalities, innovation and global connectivity
Mook Bangalore
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: Sustainable Development Challenges: Global Evidence and Case Studies in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Nigeria
Giorgia Cecchinato
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Essays on the impacts of weather shocks and electrification: evidence from the early Twentieth Century U.S.
Yang Zheng
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Green Innovation and Climate Policy
Pedro Llanos-Paredes
PhD in Economic Geography
Beatriz Jambrina Canseco
PhD in Economic Geography
Augustin Boey
PhD in Economic Geography
Han Wang
PhD in Economic Geography
Juan Soto Diaz
PhD in Economic Geography
Glen Gostlow
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Lorenzo Sileci
PhD in Environmental Economics
Matthias Täger
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Janna Tenzing
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Anshuman Tiwari
PhD in Environmental Economics
Louise Bernard
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on urban and development economics
Billy Ndengeyingoma
PhD in Regional and Urban Planning Studies
Thesis: Geographies of the meantime: temporalities of housing cooperatives in Kigali, Rwanda
Jonathan Barnes
PhD candidate in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: The assembly of climate finance in South Africa: Politics, scale and justice
Valeria Biffi
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: The state effects of a state-led payment for ecosystem services scheme in Amazonian indigenous communities
Leanne Cass
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Essays on the economics of climate change, international trade, and meat consumption
Yunxiong Li
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Technolgical Innovation
Lars Ludolph
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in the economics of migration
Xiaolun Yu
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in the economics of land, housing, and urban policy
Zachary Turk
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Some Alternative Approaches to Persistent Environmental Problems and the Measurment of Inequality
Didi Han
PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Practicing the urban commons between autonomy and togetherness: A genealogical analysis of the urban precariat movements in Tokyo and Seoul
Yohan Iddawela
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Papers on institutional quality and economic development in African regions
Carolin Iormashvili
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on regional labour markets
Dzhamilya Nigmatulina
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essay in macro and development economics
Laura Antona
PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Anatomies and apparatuses of violence: the everyday encounters of migrant domestic workers in Singapore.
Andreas Diemer
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in the spatial economic analysis of social interactions.
Lindsey Jones
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: Essays on resilience measurement.
Tanner Regan
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in urban and development economics.
Matthew Sharp
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in spatial and labour economics.
Marta Talevi
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Economic and non-economic drivers of the low-carbon energy transition: evidence from households in the UK, rural India, and refugee settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Carl Truedsson
PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Trygghet in a new time? Swedish social democracy and the aggravated socio-cultural politics of immigration
Matthew Agarwala
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Natural capital accounting and the measurement of sustainability.
Julius Andersson
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: The environmental and distributional effects of carbon taxes.
Joel Atherton
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: Capturing public views on complex and unfamiliar goods: chemical water pollution in England and Wales.
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in urban economics and international trade.
J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: The economic geography of foreign direct investment and human capital in Mexican regions.
Elisabetta Pietrostefani
PhD in Regional and Urban Planning
Thesis: Essays in planning policy and urban economics.
Cong Peng
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on urban and development economics.
Jordana Ramalho
PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Risk, resilience and responsibilisation: gendered participation and empowerment in informal settlements of Metro Cebu, the Philippines.
Lutz Sager
PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Inequality, consumer choice, and the environment.
Alexandra Sotiriou
PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: The effects of trade integration and outward foreign direct investment: a regional and industry-level empirical investigation.
Theses
Theses for previous years' PhD candidates are available via LSE Theses Online.
Placements
Explore the first employment destinations of our MPhil/PhD graduates by selecting a programme from the list below.
| Completion Year | First Employment Post PhD |
| 2019 | Postdoc on MASSIVE (LSE) |
| 2019 | Postdoc at University of Thessaly |
| 2019 | Assistant Professor (University of Reading) |
| 2019 | Assistant Professor , Peking University |
| 2020 | Postdoc Swedish intitute for Social Research |
| 2020 | Postdoc (Oxford - Blavatnik School of Government) |
| 2020 | Research Fellow (LBS) |
| 2020 | Assistant Prof at HEC Lausanne |
| 2021 | Executive Director at 505 Economics |
| 2021 | Labour Market Economist at OECD |
| 2021 | Reading University (Lecturer) |
| 2021 | Fudan University (Assistant Professor) |
| 2021 | Research Fellow (University of Birmingham) |
| 2022 | Post-doc / Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore |
| 2022 | OECD (Junior Economist) |
| 2022 | Sustainable Development Economics Fellow (World bank) |
| 2022 | Economist (Zalando) |
| 2023 | Postdoc at International Inequalities Institute (LSE) |
| 2023 | LSE Fellow (Geography and Environment) |
| 2023 | Assistant Professor (Universidad Catolica del Norte) |
| 2024 | Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Sevilla |
| 2024 | Postdoc at LSE International Inequalities Institute |
| 2024 | Postdoc at University of Oxford |
| 2024 | Assistant Professor (University of Reading) |
| 2024 | Economist at NIESR |
| 2024 | Lecturer ( Institut Teknologi Bandung) |
| 2024 | Senior Economist (Bank of England) |
| 2024 | World Bank |
| Completion Year | First Employment Post PhD |
| 2019 | Senior Research Associate (Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge) |
| 2019 | Assistant Prof (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm School of Economics) |
| 2019 | Assistant Prof (Georgetown) |
| 2019 | Economist (OECD) |
| 2020 | Post Doc (Yale) |
| 2021 | Researcher (Gerrmany) |
| 2022 | Research Officer (GRI) |
| 2022 | Post Doc (Columbia) |
| 2022 | Assistant Prof (Vrije Amsterdam) |
| 2022 | Assistant Prof (Aston) |
| 2022 | Post Doc (GRI) |
| 2023 | LSE Fellow (Economics) |
| 2023 | Researcher (The Inclusion Initiative, LSE) |
| 2023 | Assistant Prof (IE Business School, Madrid) |
| 2024 | Post Doc (Politecnico Di Milano) |
| Completion Year | First Employment Post PhD |
| 2018 | Research Officer (MEC) |
| 2019 | Senior Policy Researcher (Citizens Advice) |
| 2020 | Senior Consultant (World Bank) |
| 2021 | Senior Technical Advisor (GIZ) |
| 2022 | Social Development Specialist (World Bank) Post Doc (Zurich) |
| 2023 | Post Doc (UC Santa Barbara) |
| Completion Year | First Employment Post PhD |
| 2020 | Consultant (Monitor Deloitte) |
| 2020 | Postdoc (Manchester) |
| 2020 | ESRC Fellow (Oxford) |
| 2020 | ESRC Post-Doc (LSE) |
| 2021 | Research Professor (Andong National University) |
| 2023 | University Lecturer (Leiden University) |
| 2024 | Lecturer (Kings College) |
| Completion Year | First employment post PhD |
| 2018 | ESRC Postdoc (LSE) |
| 2018 | Lecturer (UCL) |
| 2018 | Research Officer (LSE) |
| 2019 | Research Fellow (UCL) |
| 2020 | ESRC Postdoc (LSE) |
| 2022 | Advisor for Urban Development (Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure) |
| 2024 | Lecturer in Urban Studies (University of Hong Kong) |