PhD Research
The Sociology of Development and Change Group is involved in the supervision of PhD research projects.
Below you can find an overview containing the PhD research projects in progress.
For an overview of the completed PhD research projects including dissertations, click here!
PhD Research in progress
| PhD | Title | Expected Completion | Supervisor(s) WUR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abusada, A | Agricultural Chain of Production Development Plan up to 2020 in Palestine | 2018 | JF Warner |
| Ahmed, F | JF Warner | ||
| Alene, GD | Development intervention mechanisms towards food security: the case of Ethiopian productive safety nets programme (PSNP) | 2020 | JWM van Dijk, JAB Duncan |
| Brandon, S | Selling Extinction: The Politics of Cheetah Conservation in Namibia; the 'Cheetah Capital of the World' | 2020 | BE Büscher, Koot |
| Broekhaus, B | Future Food: an Inventory and Analysis of the Socio-Cultural Context of New Food Innovations | 2020 | CN van der Weele, BE Büscher |
| Berg, L. van den | 2019 | GM Verschoor | |
| Berget, C | GM Verschoor | ||
| Chattrenond, O | 2019 | BE Büscher | |
| Chikulo, S | Qualitative analysis of people and food movement in a spontaneous economy in Zimbabwe | PGM Hebinck, JSC Wiskerke | |
| Cortes Urquijo, FJ | Solidarity economy as peacebuilding strategy in Colombia | 2021 | BE Büscher, GM Verschoor, G van der Haar |
| Ghimire, LKC | Changing Gender Roles: Women, livelihoods and Post conflict Challenges in Nepal | 2018 | G van der Haar, DJM Hilhorst |
| Goris, M | GM Verschoor | ||
| Hernando Arrese, MADP | Let it Flow! Existing Beyond Water Grabbing and Energy Security Policy in Mapuche Territories of Los Andes, Southern Chile | 2019 | AMG Arce, JSC Wiskerke |
| Justin, PH | Land and State-building in South Sudan | 2021 | JWM van Dijk |
| Karimasari, N | Crisis Conservation: Saving Nature in Times and Spaces of Exception | 2020 | BE Büscher |
| Kiggell, TA | Fragmented Forest: Crisis Conservation of the Mata Atlântica in Times of Austerity and the Anthropocene | 2020 | R Fletcher, RJ Coates, BE Büscher |
| Kimanthi, HV | Meanings of food crops: Analysis of socio-cultural dynamics of food crop cultivation, usage and marketing in western Kenya | 2019 | PGM Hebinck, JWM van Dijk |
| Kingma, JT | Pathways of change. The interplay between livelihoods, gender and policies in a Tanzania for the last 25 years | 2019 | PGM Hebinck, JWM van Dijk |
| Lopez Regalado, F | Peasant Sociality and rural development Policies in Nayarit | 2019 | GM Verschoor, JWM van Dijk, AMG Arce |
| Luna, KC | Changing Gender Roles: Women, livelihoods and Post conflict Challenges in Nepal | 2019 | G van der Haar, DJM Hilhorst |
| Montes, J | The Socio-Economic Impacts of Ecotourism Development in Bhutan | 2019 | R Fletcher, BE Büscher |
| Moombe, KB | Linking Community and National Forest Monitoring: Contributing to the formulation of a monitoring, reporting and verification system in Zambia | 2019 | PGM Hebinck, JWM van Dijk |
| Overbeek, F van | Livelihood Practices within Hybrid Governance: Local Negotiations to the Threat of Land Scarcity in Expanding Urban Areas of Bukavu | 2018 | JWM van Dijk, P Tamas |
| Pandya, R | Green economics of Tiger Reserves in India | 2021 | BE Büscher, R Fletcher |
| Reyna Jiménez, OF | Transnational Extractivism and Social Change in Wirikuta Sacred Natural Site | 2018 | AMG Arce, JSC Wiskerke |
| Ruttenberg, T | Decolonizing Sustainable Surf Tourism | 2022 | BE Büscher, R Fletcher |
| Santos Valencia, SVdF | The Multi-Dimensional tolerance threshold as social vulnerability indicator to Water Scarcity and Drought - The Ecuadorian Water Governance case on Transboundary Mira River Basin | 2022 | JWM van Dijk, JF Warner |
| Shrestha, A | Peri-urban Water Security and Climate Change: Exploring Conflict and Cooperation | 2019 | D Roth, JWM van Dijk |
| Silva, S da | Planners, community leaders and participation; An in-depth comparative theorization of slum politics in Recife, Brazil | 2021 | BE Büscher, PA de Vries |
| Smidt, E | BE Büscher | ||
| Thakholi, L | Investigating the consequences of green violence on property and labour in the wildlife economy in the Kruger to Canyons Region, South Africa | 2020 | BE Büscher |
| Tripathy, B | Climate migration and development: Impact of social remittances on coastal communities in Bangladesh | 2021 | JWM van Dijk, JF Warner |
| Trogisch, L | Gorilla tracking for peace? Dynamics of tourism, peace and violence around the Virunga Conservation Area | 2021 | BE Büscher, R Fletcher, PA de Vries, L de Vries |
| Vasconcellos Fernandez, NA | Food sovereignth in Ecuador | AMG Arce, JSC Wiskerke | |
| Vos, RE de | The politics of scale in palm oil land disputes in West-Kalimantan, Indonesia | 2019 | FM Köhne, D Roth, JWM van Dijk |
| Wiegel, H | Climate adaption-induced mobility as 'secondary environmental migration' - experiences from Indonesia and the USA | 2022 | JF Warner |
| Yevoo, LLY | Decision-making: Frontline Providers of Maternal and Newborn Care and Clients | JWM van Dijk |