Our research students

Archaeology Research

Student name	Student programme	Supervisor(s)	Thesis title
Samantha Brummage	Archaeology Research	Lesley Mcfadyen	Shifting the scales of analysis and bridging chronological boundaries in Mesolithic-Neolithic landscapes: spectrums of practice and occupation in the Colne and Nene Valleys
Ilaria Bucci	Archaeology Research	Jennifer Baird	Scratching the Suface: A comparative Analysis of the Graffiti from Hatra, North Iraq
Edyta Cehak	Archaeology Research	Lesley Mcfadyen	Putting Things in Place: A Material Culture Approach to the Study of Early Neolithic Houses in Britain and Ireland
Robert Cowie	Archaeology Research	Timothy Reynolds	A History of London’s Archaeology, 1945–2010
Beth Hodgett	Archaeology Research	Jennifer Baird Lesley Mcfadyen Chris Gosden Chris Morton	OGS Crawford: Life in Photographs, Movements and Materiality in the Archive
Andreas Jensen	Archaeology Research	Timothy Reynolds	Middle Palaeolithic Technological Strategies in the Zagros Mountains
Ma. Myra Grace Lara	Archaeology Research	Timothy Reynolds	Understanding modern human population history in Southeast Asia through variation in dental morphology and mortuary practices
Irene Liesk	Archaeology Research	Hans-Caspar Meyer Jennifer Baird	Preparing and cooking food in Classical Greek houses: negotiation of household tasks, foodways and regional identity
Owain Morris	Archaeology Research	Hans-Caspar Meyer Christy Constantakopoulou	‘Ties that bind’: assessing ancient networks in Iron Age Campania
Edward Shepherd	Archaeology Research	Lesley Mcfadyen	Animal architecture - an integrated approach to the built environment of the Early Neolithic in Yorkshire
Sidin Sunny	Archaeology Research	Rebecca Darley	Medieval obligations: Modelling the role of charity in the Abbasid economy
Rebekka Valcke	Archaeology Research	Jennifer Baird	Looking through the cooking pot: identity expression via the study of ceramics. A consumption approach towards a local Vesuvian identity in Roman Pompeii (89 BC - AD 79)
Simon Cearns	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Christy Constantakopoulou	The Role of the Thetes in Classical Athens
Katherine Cowell	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Rebecca Darley	Valens & Theodosius: the role of the imperial office in the expansion of ecclesiastical power, post-Adrianople
Agathi Karadima	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Hans-Caspar Meyer Christy Constantakopoulou	Cave cult in West Greece: The case of Drakaina Cave on Kephallonia
John Marley	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Christy Constantakopoulou	Control, exchange and communication between Rhodes and the Rhodian Peraia, in 3rd- 2nd century BC
Richard Phillips	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Christy Constantakopoulou	The Nature, Derivation and Use of Soft Power in the Ancient Cyclades
Alexandra Rutterford	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Catharine Edwards	Greek And Roman Portrait Sculpture In The English Country House (Working Title)
Nicholas Salmon	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Hans-Caspar Meyer Christy Constantakopoulou Alexandra Villing (British Museum)	Between Asia and Europe: Mediterranean networks and island identity on Rhodes, 8th to 5th centuries BC
Stefanie Ulrich	Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Research	Catharine Edwards	Remembering the condemned: Memory sanctions as a political measure against Roman Emperors in the third century AD
Andrew Regan	Classics Research	Catharine Edwards Susan Wiseman	Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, and the Classical Tradition
Ian Sideris	Classics Research	Benjamin Gray Gonda Van Steen	Exile and Hellenism: the ambiguity of identity in Greek literature, ancient and modern
Alia Alsaqer	History Research	Joseph Viscomi	How did the British Empire’s control of the Gulf waterways contribute to the formation of the Arabian Gulf States?
Lee Arnott	History Research	Matthew Cook	Confronting the masculine military ideal: experiences of gay working-class soldiers in the Army since 1960. How did gay soldiers navigate the punitive environment of the Army, an institution at odds with wider societal changes
Michael Barram	History Research	Jeremy White	Why were labour relations in the Port of London so troubled in the period 1940-1981, and to what extent did the problems in industrial relations contribute to the closing of the upper port?
Sugra Bibi	History Research	Chandak Sengoopta	Subaltern cultures of remittances and Labour in South Asia
Anne Biggs	History Research	Katherine Hill Carmen Fracchia	Religion and race; a study of renaissance visual culture and inquisitorial trial documents across the Spanish Atlantic
Sarah Birt	History Research	Brodie Waddell	A Fashionable Business: Mantuamakers, Milliners and Seamstresses in London c. 1670 – 1770
Morwenna Blewett	History Research	Nikolaus Wachsmann Michael Tymkiw (Essex)	Use of Conservation and Restoration under the National Socialist Regime
Sue Blunn	History Research	David Feldman	The Victorians and sati. I am broadly concerned with establishing the presence, nature and function of discourses on sati in British domestic and imperial socio-political culture c. 1833 -1900
Darren Bryant	History Research	Jeremy White	London Blitz 1940-1945: An examination into diversity of experiences across the localities of the metropolis
Christopher Budleigh	History Research	Rebecca Darley	The role of economic rationality in the management of the Byzantine Empire (1080-1204)
Timothy Chamberlain	History Research	Julia Lovell Naoko Shimazu	Empirical Adventurers: Science and Imperial Exploration in East Tibet, 1900-1949
Nicola Clarke	History Research	Brodie Waddell	The value of Accuracy and Reliability in seventeenth-century English news sources 1649 – 1685
Amelia Clegg	History Research	Hilary Sapire	Combat and the Constitution of Middle-Command: Cultures of Leadership of Coldstream Guards Regimental Officers in the South African War (1899-1902)
Guy Collender	History Research	Jeremy White	An era of transformation in the port of London, 1900-1930: from confusion and decline to co-ordination and growth
Robert Collins	History Research	Orlando Figes	"An Island of Holy Rus” : The Crisis in the Russian Orthodox Diaspora in Britain 1991 - 2009
Aaron Columbus	History Research	Vanessa Harding	The intersection of anxiety about plague and fears of social disorder in early modern London
Ann Cotterrell	History Research	Hilary Sapire	Mixed Messages: British Perceptions of Race and Gender through the Lens of Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Activities in Ghana c.1880–1914
Anna Cusack	History Research	Brodie Waddell	The Marginal Dead of Early Modern London
Ralph Day	History Research	Matthew Cook	A history of lesbian and gay switchboard services in the UK, 1970-2000
Colin Del Strother	History Research	Jeremy White	War for the Souls of London: Evangelicals, Secularists and the Metropolitan Poor 1830-1900
Ghena El Hariri	History Research	Frederick Anscombe	Political Legitimacy through the Control of Mecca
Nicholas Evans	History Research	Carmen Mangion Dora Vargha	Stagnation or innovation? The work of the Local Government Board and its Medical Department between 1871 and 1919 and its impact on public health in England
Laurence Eyton	History Research	Jeremy White	Freeing London’s Streets: Space and Change in London 1840-1895
Pedro Galvao Ferreira	History Research	Sarah Marks Peter Fifield	The cultural-historical construction of ideas and disciplinarity in discourses on mental health: Attachment Theory and the new age of human development, post-1939
Sarah Golding	History Research	Sean Brady	The paradox of women’s activism in the Republic of Ireland 1970 - 1989
Satyadev Gunput	History Research	David Feldman	Race and community in Southall 1948-1986
Peter Harrington	History Research	Caroline Goodson Vanessa Harding	The Roman Church and Papal Authority 476-604
Mary Heffernan	History Research	Sean Brady Sarah Marks	Ireland & Psychoanalysis 1911-1993
Christopher Higgins	History Research	Katherine Hill	Women as agents of cultural exchange through travel, patronage and collecting during the late Elizabethan/ early Stuart period
Zhiqing Hu	History Research	Hans van de Van Julia Lovell	The Life and Myth of Hu Xueyan: A Study of A Late Qing Merchant and His Revival in Contemporary China
Jemima Jarman	History Research	David Feldman	Evangelical missionary activities carried out among the Jewish immigrants of 19th century England: an exploration of their methods, an analysis of the results and an evaluation of its impact
Katie Joice	History Research	Daniel Pick	The Empty Frame: Infancy, Mental Illness and the Post-War Visual Imagination 1945-67
Rhys Jones	History Research	Hilary Sapire	How influential was the Indian diaspora in governing British East Africa from 1918 to 1930?
Nicola Lambert	History Research	Julia Laite	Fallen Men: The men involved with fallen women in the Victorian Period
John Lawrence	History Research	Julia Lovell	British Hong Kong Beleaguered? Voices of (In)Formal Empire during the Chinese Revolution, 1895-1928
Sarah Lennard-Brown	History Research	Vanessa Harding John Henderson	An investigation into the development of the Almshouses of London and their role in lay piety and the relief of poverty 1330-1550
Matthew Littleford	History Research	Matthew Cook	Using oral history and LGBT archives to assess the impact that Stonewall and OutRage!, London based LGB activist groups believed they had on Britain’s cultural, political, and social environment, between 1988 and 2003
Edmund Lyon	History Research	Sean Brady	Irish nationalists in Victorian London, c.1858-c.1891
Annalisa Martin	History Research	Julia Laite	Prostitution in West Germany, 1945 – 1979 Experiences of control from the garrison towns to the “Eros-Centres”
Jonathan Matfin	History Research	Joanna Bourke	Birkbeck and the People’s Past: Adult Education and the Social Production of History at Birkbeck College, 1968 - 1989
Zehra Miah	History Research	David Feldman Julia Laite	‘White’ Muslims: Turks in London, 1970-1999
Adeline Moussion	History Research	Joanna Bourke Silvia Posocco	Violation, pain and subjectivity. The social uses of trauma and construction of integrity among feminists organisations and rape victims
Aidan Mullett	History Research	Sean Brady	Rethinking the Irish 'Revolution': Religion, Identity and Crises 1912-1923
Victoria Mumby	History Research	Jessica Reinisch	The ‘quiet’ death of the League of Nations
Sean Newman	History Research	Sean Brady	For God, Ulster and the ‘B’ Men: A History of the Ulster Special Constabulary, 1920 - 1970
Ciaran O'Donohue	History Research	Joanna Bourke	Birkbeck and the politics of adult education; 1866-1920
Zeljka Oparnica	History Research	Frederick Anscombe David Feldman	Jews within and beyond the Jewish mahala in the post-Ottoman Balkans. Sarajevo, Belgrade and Sofia’s production of integration (1878-1918)
Gabriella Romano	History Research	Sean Brady Joanna Bourke	Fascism, psychiatric hospitals and "the treatment"of LGBT men and women in Italy, 1922-1943
Elisabeth Salje	History Research	Julian Swann	Management and Mismanagement of the King’s Forests: Social status, professional practice and corruption of mid-ranking forestry officers in the Pyrenean district of Quillan (1670s to 1740s)
Cora Salkovskis	History Research	Joanna Bourke	Telephones , Electricity, a Mouse and a Weasel’: the Meaning and Lived Experience of Delusions and Hallucinations in British Asylums, c. 1840-1914
Janet Tyson	History Research	Vanessa Harding Carmen Mangion	‘A Curious Herbal’: Elizabeth Blackwell’s historic book as an outgrowth of Scottish immigrant networking and enterprise in eighteenth-century London
Jack Watkins	History Research	Caroline Goodson Antonio Sennis (UCL) Filippo de Vivo	Constructing collective identity among mobile populations: new towns, assemblies and institutions in the twelfth-century Marche
Lynette White	History Research	Julian Swann	Rules of informal spaces at the court of Louis XV 1726-1764: the rules of etiquette and social interaction observed in non-public spaces at the court of Louis XV
Emilie Wiedemann	History Research	David Feldman	The politics of defining anti-Semitism in historical perspective
Yvette Williams Elliott	History Research	Matthew Cook Alana Harris	Working Class Women and Networks of Public Life in London, 1900-1940
Xu Yang	History Research	Matthew Davies Vanessa Harding	Early Modern London Merchants and the Rules of Business around 1700
Emma Yapp	History Research	Joanna Bourke	Psychiatric evidence in court proceedings for sexual violence survivors: a qualitative study of policy and practice in England and Wales
Rosemary Byfleet	History Research	John Henderson	Perfume at the court of the Grand Ducal Medici (1532-1743): from medical prophylaxis to luxury commodity
Thomas Cripps	History Research	Hilary Sapire	Local politics and regional developments in a Namibian apartheid era Bantustan: Damaraland c. 1960- 1990
Harry O’Neill	History Research	Kat Hill Daniel Pick	Mysticism, Gender, and Psychohistory: Using Psychosocial Approaches to the study of the Strasbourg Prophets
Conrad Compagna	History Research	Julia Lovell Hilary Sapire	Knowledge and Power on the British Imperial Frontier
Gary Jenkins	Medieval and Modern History Research	Vanessa Harding	Christ’s Hospital and the Poor of London 1552-1666
Susan Kentish	Medieval and Modern History Research	Frederick Anscombe	Turning points in Anglo-Ottoman Relations in an Age of Revolutions, 1789 to 1839
John Siblon	Medieval and Modern History Research	Joanna Bourke	War Memory and the construction of hierarchy: representations of black colonial servicemen in the aftermath of the Great War
Nicole Albrecht	MPhil History	Jessica Reinisch	The International History of Interwar Yugoslavia: Nation-Building in an International Community
John Campbell	MPhil Archaeology	Jen Baird	The Thames on the eve of Londinium: exploring a Late Iron Age landscape.
Craig Hambling	MPhil History	Kate Franklin Matthew Champion	The Senses and Martial Pedagogy in Giles of Rome’s De Regimine Principum
Ellis Huddart	MPhil History	Jan Rueger Quintin Collville	Floating palaces: royal yachts, maritime tours and constructions of monarchy, empire and decolonisation, c. 1875-1997
Marion Lester-Card	MPhil History	Frank Trentmann Jen Baird	A Battle Between Thrift and Consumption: Post-war Domestic Mending in Britain.
Peter Nowell	MPhil History	Matthew Davies Anthony Bale	Lost Libraries of London [1200 - 1500]
Jennifer Putnam	MPhil History	Nik Wachsmann Esther Briethoff	If Walls Could Talk: Wartime Graffiti in Nazi Camps and Ghettos
Joseph Redcliffe	MPhil History	David Feldman	The role of the seamen's boarding house in early black community formation in British port cities, 1894-1939
Denise Sumpter	PhD Classics	Serefina Cuomo Catharine Edwards	Mathematics and Philosophy in Theon of Alexandria’s Commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest
Iro Tagkalou	MPhil Classical Archaeology and Ancient History	Christy Constantakopoulou Dimitris Palaiothodoros	Armed dance, ritual and sexuality in Classical Antiquity: The role of female and male dancers on vase painting, sculpture and terracotta figurines
Helen White	MPhil History	Vanessa Harding	Wealth, community and governance in early Tudor London
Peter Wood	MPhil History	Julia Laite	Non-Citizens: Homelessness, citizenship and the welfare state, 1939-79
Leila Sellers	MPhil History	Matt Cook	The Beaumont Society: Trans Cultures, Identities and Everyday Subjectivities, 1966-2004
Allison McKibban	MPhil History	Joanna Bourke	No ‘Safety for Indian Women’: Confronting Colonial Violence in the U.S. Violence Against Women Act
Cynthia Dennison	MPhil History	Sean Brady	Trauma and Emotions in post First World War Ireland: 1916-1927
Clair Walsh	MPhil Archaeology	Jen Baird	Wasted London; Rubbish and Recycling from the Romans to the Present