Postgraduate Research Students
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Architecture Postgraduate Research Students
PGR Student Research Topic Supervisor Ejlal Ahmedeid H Alhawsawi Educational parks in Jeddah: exploration of semantics in the design of parks Dr Urmi Sengupta Darragh Breathnach Explication of Tacit Knowledge Within My Practice Mr Colm Moore Mark Hackett Interstitial Practice Mr Colm Moore Stephanie Helm-Grovas Architecture and the Bomb in Belfast and Beyond Prof Greg Keeffe Aisling Madden Exploring the Role of Urban Density in Social Housing through Graphic Anthropology in Belfast, UK. Dr Agustina Martire Ageela Madkhali A Sustainable Vision for Optimal Design Decisions on the Red Sea Coast, Saudi Arabia Dr Nuala Flood Aoife McGee Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls: A Design Study Dr Agustina Martire Yosra Mosaad Towards a Design Methodology to Increase the Performance of Public Spaces Case Study on Rest Area in Roadways in the Western Region Prof Tom Jefferies Arwa Saeed Noorsaeed An Investigation into Improving the Learning Environment for Primary School aged Pupils in Saudi Arabia. Mr Keith McAllister Thomas O'Brien Dissonance and Coincidence in Architectural Practice: the work of t o b Architect Mr Colm Moore Alice Poole Innovative Ways of Seeing Cities through Cinema: Spatial Mapping and Data Digitisation of Dublin Film Locations Dr Gul Kacmaz Erk Kevin Roddy The Future Garden City and New Town Movement Prof Greg Keeffe May Saeedi Designing the Future Port Experience: Architectural Typologies, Space, Place, Technologies and Rituals of Cruise Tourism on the Red Sea Prof Tom Jefferies Kirstin Simpson Meeting Informality, Reshaping Architectural Practice and Education: educating the architect for 'transgression', embracing informal urbanism and expediting sustainable futures. Dr Urmi Sengupta Sahar Yousef Cultural sustainability assessment criteria for hertiage sites in Jordan. (Case study As Salt city). Dr Chantelle Niblock
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Archaeology-Palaeoecology Postgraduate Research Students
PGR Student Research Topic Supervisor David Anderson Younger Dryas Apocalypse and Archaeological Conspiracism Prof Maarten Blaauw Gosse Bootsma Carbon storage dynamics in temperate peatlands over the past centuries Prof Maarten Blaauw James Bright 'Digital phenomenology'; interrogating the experience of diachronic ritual landscapes through combined remote sensing, 3D reconstruction and virtual reality modelling Dr Patrick Gleeson Stine Carlsson How Fare Thee?: A Multifactorial Investigation of Health Status and the Skeletal Manifestations of Physiological Stress in Medieval Ireland and Scotland Prof Eileen Murphy James Dill-Russell Multi-Proxy Investigation Of The Effects Of A Drying Climate on Peatlands And Human Activity Prof Gill Plunkett Elisabetta Dixon Annual radiocarbon calibration data over the 8.2 ka event with Bayesian approach to dendrochronology Prof Maarten Blaauw Cherie Edwards Dynamics of Bronze Age Upland Settlements in Ireland and Northern Britain in A Comparative Perspective Dr Dirk Brandherm Riley Finnigan Signs, Simulation and Cyber Twins; The Pedagogical Value of Cyber Communities and Their Spaces for Archaeology Dr Will Megarry Sinéad Flanigan A Late Glacial and Holocene tephrostratigraphy for Antarctica Prof Gill Plunkett Rebecca Logie-Inions Deconstructing Blanket Peatlands in Northern Ireland Towards an Understanding of Their Genesis, Hydrology and Ability to Store Carbon Prof Gill Plunkett Liam Magill Micro-climate modelling in complex human-modified environments: Evidence from Vietnam's northern limestone karst Dr Will Megarry Jordan McClelland Scientific Analysis of the Coarseware Pottery of Ulster and the Hebrides in the Early Medieval Period Dr Colm Donnelly Ryan Montgomery Human-Animal-Environmental Interactions at Late Medieval Religious Foundations in Ulster Prof Eileen Murphy Daniel Morris Investigating the Effectiveness of Chemical and Thermal Methods in the Radiocarbon Dating of Consolidated Museum Artefacts Mr Gerard Barrett Clair Richardson Society and the Dead: Geospatial and Statistical Analysis of Complex Cemeteries in Early Medieval Ireland Dr Patrick Gleeson Nikta Sarie Bayesian estimates of birth ages from radiocarbon dating of human bones Prof Maarten Blaauw Julie Taylor The Evolution of the Ecclesiastical Landscape and its Architecture in Nineteenth Century Ulster. Dr Colm Donnelly Lisa White Determining Death: Investigating the Selection Processes for Mortuary Rites in Neolithic Ireland Dr Eileen Murphy
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Civil Engineering Postgraduate Research Students (A-H)
PGR Student Research Topic Supervisor Kareem Abdelsalam AI-Driven Strategic Planning for Middle Eastern Real Estate: Toward Adaptive and Intelligent Decision Systems Dr Faris Elghaish Zohreh Adibi Pour Carbon footprint reduction by repurposing fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) composit wastes for marine renewable energy Dr Madjid Karimirad Naif Alotaibi Cementless "Geopolymer" Concrete for Sustainable Construction Prof Marios Soutsos Saeideh Baghanian Novel Assessment Tools for Wave Dampening by Marine and Coastal Vegetation (CASE) Dr Pal Schmitt Diala Barham Net Zero Housing Retrofits Assuring a Sustainable Low-carbon Transition in the Domestic Sector Dr Faris Elghaish Wan Ahmad Soffian Bin Wan Mohammad Valorisation of seashell waste to develop a sustainable 3D printing concrete Prof Mohamed Sonebi Sarah Bolsover Investigation of Novel Calcium Aluminate Cements from Waste Drinking Water Treatment Residuals to Further Understanding of Process Development and Commercial Product Manufacturing. Dr Sreejith Nanukuttan Morgan Campbell Digital twinning lifetime responses of Floating solar panels (Sloar Twin) Dr Madjid Karimirad Kristopher Campbell Managing Scour Risk for Effective Bridge Management Decisions across Northern Ireland. Prof Su Taylor Yi Chen Processing and characterisation of high entropy alloys for hydrogen storage applications Prof Wei Sha Noreen Durning The Optimisation of Active System Control Units in Rainwater Harvesting as a Means of Improved Storm-Water Management in an Urban Catchment Prof Ulrich Ofterdinger Rónán Gallagher Modelling the Dynamic Response of Tidal Energy Devices with Buoyant Tension Mooring Systems in Nearshore/Offshore Locations Dr Carwyn Frost Liam Hayes Agritherm: The role of geothermal energy in decarbonising the UK Agri-Food sector Prof Ulrich Ofterdinger - Civil Engineering Postgraduate Research Students (H-Z)
PGR Student Research Topic Supervisor Sarah Irvine Granular Metamaterials as a Ground Improvement Solution Dr Vasileios Angelidakis Connor Kent Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring for Bridges; Linking Structural Categories with Bridge Response Similarity to Enabling Intelligent Information Transfer Prof David Hester Jonathan Lockhart AI-Based Design Optimisation and Dynamics of Co-located Offshore Wind and Floating Solar Energy for Hydrogen Production at Green Ports Dr Madjid Karimirad Ciara McCloskey Floating Cellular BFRP Concrete for Wave Renewables Prof Susan Taylor Paul Officer Structural Health Monitoring of Historic Buildings Prof Susan Taylor Sodiq Oguntade The impact of subsurface heterogeneity on the performace of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system Prof Ulrich Ofterdinger Suhib Rabi Digital Twins for Progress Monitoring in Construction Projects Dr Faris Elghaish Scott Sheenan Digital Twins-Based Predictive Maintenance System Towards Achieving the UK Net Zero Strategy Dr Faris Elghaish Ellen Swaile-Blemmings Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring for Bridges Prof David Hester David Tennant Mechanically Stabilised Temporary Working Platforms Dr Jonathan Black Hansen Zhang Impact Resistance of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete Prof Marios Soutsos
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Geography Postgraduate Research Students (A-M)
PGR Student Research Topic Supervisor Daniel Acheson What are the key barriers to more efficient plastic recycling in Northern Ireland, and how might these be overcome? Dr Stephen McIlwaine Diya Banerjee A Morphological study of the British Administrative Towns in the Indian subcontinent (1750-1947) Prof Keith Lilley Samuel Barber Development Of Multi-Disciplinary Tools For The Assessment Of Permafrost Degradation On Road Transport Infrastructure Prof Helen Roe Sonya Bean Religion in the Shadows: The Unspoken Influence of Christian Zionism on Legal Geopolitics in Israel - Palestine Dr Tristan Sturm Hannah Campbell Hewson Cartographic circuits: a comparative study of English and Dutch charts of the Indian Ocean (1600-1740) Prof Keith Lilley Steven Farquhar Quantum Geographies of Quantum Science and Technology: Future Ecologies at UK Nuclear Sites Dr Tristan Sturm Michéal Gallagher Migration, Education, and Development in the West of Northern Ireland Dr Estelle Lowry Donal Houston IN-PEAT: Impact of Nitrogen Deposition on PEATlands in Northern Ireland (CASE) Prof Graeme Swindles Rebecca Irwin Race, Gender and Culture: An Examination of the Legacies of Irish Presbyterian Missions in Malawi and Kenya c.1958-2000 Dr Diarmid Finnegan Abdul-Qadeer Khan Diversity and Inequalities in Ethnicity and Religion in the UK, 2001-2022 Prof Christopher Lloyd Aimée Kielt World Cup in the Arctic? Sport adaptation to extreme heat in a warming world Dr Donal Mullan Erin Manson Decolonising Astronomical Science: Cultural and Historical Geographies of the 'Golden Age' of Irish Astronomy and its Legacy, 1785 - 1978 Dr Oliver Dunnett Anjal Mariya Understanding the controls on cyanobacteria blooms in Northern Ireland lakes: a paleolimnological perspective Prof Helen Roe Matthew McMahon Theatre of the Cosmos: Performance, Space and Science at Armagh Planetarium 1943-2016 Dr Oliver Dunnett Niamh Moggan Embedding spatial data in local government using web-based geoportals: a case study of Belfast City Council Dr Ian Shuttleworth Patrick Moss Geospatial Assessment of Onshore Wind in Northern Ireland: Environmental Impact, Carbon Footprint Estimation and Implications for Future Peatland Monitoring Prof Jennifer McKinley - Geography Postgraduate Research Students (N-Z)
Amy O'Keefe Multi-proxy Spatial Approach to Mapping Water Dr Alastair Ruffell Catherine Pope Place and the Dynamics of Social Deprivation in Belfast 1991 - 2021 Dr Ian Shuttleworth Ellie Purdy Artic Peatland Response to Climate Change: carbon bomb or self-repair? Prof Graeme Swindles Matthew Robinson It All Comes Back: Resituating and Decolonising the British State's Use of Torture in Northern Ireland. Dr Merav Amir Nathan Thompson Ecohydrological Response of Tropical Peatlands to Climate Change and Human Impacts Prof Graeme Swindles Mathijs Van Gijtenbeek Evaluating the use of pre-existing geochemical database for urban forensic soli sampling stragies Prof Jennifer McKinley Gulvin Yusifova The results of Internal Migration in the developing countries: A case study in Azerbaijan. Dr Ian Shuttleworth
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Planning Postgraduate Research Students
PGR Student Research Topic Supervisor Chelsea Beardsley Just Coastal Transitions: Exploring Community Vulnerabilities and Responses Dr Wesley Flannery Fawaz Alfaydi Exploring the Influence of Migration from Small Surrounding Villages to Major Urban Center on Educational Infrastructure through Geospatial Analysis: A Case Study of Yanbu City, Saudi Arabia. Dr Urmi Sengupta Robert McMaster Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning Dr Heather Ritchie Mengyu Wu The Governance of Industrial Heritage-Led Regeneration: The Case of Chengdu, China. Dr Brendan Murtagh Shea Anderson Accountability in environmental decision-making: a case study of the NI planning system Prof Geraint Ellis Xiang He Mapping Longitudinal Development Pressures in Northern Ireland Based on Machine Learning Prof Geraint Ellis Song Xue Exploration of Pedestrian Behaviour in Limited Space in the Agent-based Microscale Simulation of Pavements and Crossroads in Urban Area Dr Cristian Silva Rebecca Kavanagh The Role of Maritime Spatial Planning in Resolving Demands For Space on the Island of Ireland: Competition, Conflict And Co-Existence. Dr Heather Ritchie Shane Sugrue Governance & Planning for Sustainable Housing Equitability Dr Agustina Martire Martin Duffy Age-friendly accessibility strategies for community pharmacies Prof Geraint Ellis Lauren Mallon The Place of Interstitial Spaces in Cities and the Urbanisation Process Dr Cristian Silva Amy Oke Religion-planning Nexus: neoliberalism, 'blind spots', and places of worship. Dr Philip Boland Aine Mc Beth Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions in Planning Sustainable Communities Dr Neil Galway Yue Liu Analysing the Impact of Neoliberalism on Community Planning in Rural China Dr Philip Boland Yi Li Human-Land Relations of Ethnic Minorities in Mountainous Areas: A Case Study in Guizhou, China Dr Philip Boland Vincent Lusby Capacity of UK Planning Systems for preventing Agricultural Pollution: A case study of Northern Ireland Prof Geraint Ellis Shuyun Zhang World Heritage sites surrounded by high-rise buildings: a case study in Hangzhou, China Dr Cristian Silva Tianrui Sun Estimating Ecosystem Services of Dynamic Vacant Lands: Towards a Sustainable and Just Future Dr Cristian Silva Rosa Timmers Social acceptance of environmental policy implementation for carbon-neutrality in neighbourhood planning Prof Geraint Ellis