Douglas Hill

Teaching

• ENVI 111 Environment and Society
• GEOG 102 Introduction to Human Geography
• GEOG 216 Resource Evaluation and Planning
• GEOG 228 Uneven Development in Contemporary India
• GEOG 328 Uneven Development in Contemporary India
• GEOG 380 Field Research Studies (Arts)
• GEOG 472 Contemporary Developments in Environmental Management
• GEOG 473 Contemporary Geographies of South Asia
• GEOG 495 Master's Thesis Preparation

Research interests

• South Asia (especially India)
• Development Studies
• Geopolitics and Transboundary Water Resources
• Migrant labour
• Ports, labour restructuring and Maritime Trade
• Rural Development and participatory governance in West Bengal
• Urban transformation and Socio-Spatial segregation in India's megacities

Current researchprojects

• Geopolitics, Transboundary Water Resources and civil society in South Asia
• The port sector and labour relations in Bangladesh, India and Malaysia
• The transformation of urban space in Kolkata

Postgraduate student supervision

Completed supervision

• Ben Payne, 2017 PhD: 'Beyond interfering Greenies? Understanding the Competing discourses of High Country Tenure Review' (with Associate Professor Michelle Thompson-Fawcett and Dr Brent Lovelock, Dept. of Tourism).
• Sanju Koirala, 2016 PhD: Displacement and Hydro-power in Nepal (with Prof Richard Morgan).
• Nikki Aaron, PhD 2015: Devadasi women and HIV/AIDs policy in Karnataka, southern India (with the Dept of Religious Studies).
• Rakhee Chattbar, PhD 2015: IT-enabled rural development in South India: The limits of bridging the digital divide through technology.
• Joseph Whitworth, MPlan 2015: The Role of Planning in Contemporary Urban India: Consequences, and Lessons from the Hyderabad Metropolitan Rail: Telangana, India.
• Tess Guiney, 2015 PhD: Orphanage Tourism in Cambodia.
• Rosa Conway, 2014 BA(Hons): Politics of Difference: Development Practice and New Zealand NGOs.
• Adrian Nel, 2014 PhD: REDD+ and the Carbon economy.
• Rachel Batchelor, 2013 MA: Transboundary Water Resources and civil society in the Mekong Region.
• David Gawith, 2013 MA: Water Stress in the Mid-Himalayas, Nepal.
• Nave Wald, 2013 PhD: Peasant Movements and agricultural change in northern Argentina.
• Onur Oktem, 2012 PhD: IWRM, Transboundary Water Resources and Turkish water bureaucracy (with Department of Political Studies).
• Shaun Hamilton, 2012 MPlan: Participatory Irrigation Management in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Richard Nyhof, 2011 MPlan: Appropriate Technology and Water in South Asia.
• Lucy Petheram, 2011 MA: Hydro-politics in post-conflict Nepal.
• Johnie Nyametso, 2011 PhD: Squatter Settlement in Accra, Ghana.
• Sarah Wild, 2009 MPlan: Housing reconstruction in post-Tsunami Sri Lanka.
• Em Oyston, 2009 MPlan: Rural Livelihoods in Tanzania.
• Jack Lewis, 2008 MPlan: Planning for Port Cities in East Africa.
• Rosie McKenzie, 2007 PGDipArts: NGOs and education in Vietnam.