Geography and Environmental Studies
Postgraduate Research

The Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies supports a lively and growing community of post-graduate research students who make up a key part of our research activities. We generally have 12-15 students involved in PhD and Masters Degrees.

Staff and their research students are generally connected to one of two main research groupings:

• The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)
• The Ecosystem Health Research Group

Our research page provides an overview of our key research areas and topics, while information on each staff member's research interests is available on their staff pages.

Current post-graduate research projects are are listed below, grouped by Human Geography and Environmental Science.

• PhD: Western Mythology amd Health Care
• PhD: Prosaics of Interagency Human Service Delivery: The Potentialities of Peopled, Practised and Caring States
• PhD: Governance of Labour Practices in the Production Networks of Transnational Corporations: the Case of Nike Inc.
• PhD: Just Transitions to Sustainability in a Fossil Fuel Mining and Power Generation Region
• PhD: The Roles And Relationships Of Development Organisations In Fiji
• PhD: Rescaling planning powers: the political dynamics of planning by exceptionalism
• PhD: Geographies of Whaling in the Southern Ocean
• PhD: The Regulation of Public Space: Access, Management and Exclusion
• PhD: Social Housing Policy and its enactment in the Newcastle Area
• PhD: Social Networks of Sudanese Refugees Living in Regional and Urban Locations
• PhD: Diverse Urban Economics: A Comparative Assessment

• MPhil: Ecology of the East Coast Freetail Bat
• MSc: Biodiversity Impact of Lantana Management
• PhD: Effetcs of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Australia: Using Oysters as a Model Organism
• PhD: Social and Environmental Change and The Ecosystem Health of the Paterson Valley (NSW)
• PhD: Climate Change in Prehistory: A Comparison between Eastern Australia and Northern Italy.
• PhD: Simulating the Mechanistic Link Between Geonesphology and Surface Processes and their Role in Soil Catena and Landform Development
• PhD: Environmental Change In The Paroo Region
• PhD: Predicting the Effects of Salinity on Three Dominant Macrophytes: An Anticipatory Approach to the Restoration of Degraded Coastal Wetlands in NSW, Australia
• PhD: Impacts of Emission Sources Using a Chemically Reactive Air Pollution Plume Model
• PhD: Soil Carbon Dynamics at Hillslope and Catchment Scales
• PhD: Bacteriological Studies in Stormwater Quality Improvement Devices (SQIDs) at Lake Macquarie, NSW
• PhD: Reconstruction of extreme climate events in the Sydney Basin
• PhD: Analysis of the Performance of Water Sensitive Urban Design in Coastal Estates