ProBE has a vibrant doctoral community working across its six areas of research. Find out more about some of our current and former doctoral students and their theses below.
Reasat Faisal, The distinctiveness of climate change migration: its drivers and implications in the context of employment in the ready-made garment sector of Bangladesh
Awarded a Quintin Hogg Research Studentship, with Linda Clarke as Director of Studies and Vincent Rich as co-supervisor. Began in 2020 and completed in 2024.
Coralie Guedes, The environmental impact of regulatory processes involving labour actors – the implementation of global framework agreements
Part-funded by the Canadian Adapting Canadian Workplaces – An International Perspective (ACW) programme and part by the University of Westminster, with Linda Clarke as DoS and Fernando Duran-Palma as co-supervisor, assisted by Prof Carla Lipsig-Mummé. Began in 2019 and due for completion in 2023.
Mustafa Abedmousa, Reframing Construction Labour Productivity in a Colonisation Context: The West Bank as Example
British Council scholarship, with Linda Clarke as Director of Studies and Maria-Christina Georgiadou as co-supervisor. Began in 2018 and completed in 2022.
Setenay Dilek Fidler, Social Determinants of International Students’ Mobility: Enhancing the Capabilities of PhD Students from Turkey
Rebecca Wang as DoS and Linda Clarke as co-supervisor. Began in 2014 and completed in 2019.
Aletha Holborough, Ethnicity, Education, and the Transition to the Construction Labour Market: Developing an Equality Framework Using a Capability Approach, focusing on the construction of the Olympics and on electricians
Linda Clarke as DoS and Judith Allen as co-supervisor. Completed in 2015. Aletha was also involved with the Olympic Builders Film Project and presented her research at seminars, including, Building the Olympics – From Barcelona and Athens to London: what has it meant for construction labour and employment: Symposium and Film Preview, on 30 April 2012 at Fyvie Hall, Regent Street.
Noha Al-Ahmadi, Voices of the Vernacular, using oral history methods to investigate the vernacular architecture of Saudi Arabia
Christine Wall as Director of Studies.
Denise Bowes, An Aspirations-led Capabilities Approach to Women's Career Pathways in Quantity Surveying
Fully funded ProBE studentship, with Christine Wall then Sylvia Snijders as DoS, co-supervisors Linda Clarke and Dr Melahat Sahin-Dikmen. Completed in 2020.
Nadya Gabril, Passive Solutions for Cooling and Heating Loads for Modern Houses in Tripoli
Supervised by Colin Gleeson. Completed in 2014.
Philippe Saleh, Towards nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Lebanon: bioclimatic design and experimental building strategies
Supervised by Colin Gleeson. Completed in 2018.