To find contact details and further information on our postgraduate research students, browse the listings by department, or search for results by name, research topics keywords, course type or department.
| Department | Research postgraduate | Programme | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Ruman Banerjee | MLitt | Uranium series disequilibrium dating, prehistoric rock art |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Matthew Butler | MLitt | Dissenters, nonconformist, Baptist, Antiburgher, Bible Christian |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Lindsay Keniston Udall | PhD | Arnos Vale Cemetery, GIS, non-invasive field work techniques |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Chris Kerns | MLitt | Neolithic, hierarchy, sea, religion, archaeology |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Jack Hunter | MLitt | Parapsychology, paranormal, altered states of consciousness, mediumship |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Richard Israel | MLitt | English Civil War, Bristol, fortifications |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Gerald Luckhurst | MLitt | Monserrate, English landscape garden, Sintra (Portugal) |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Nicoletta Paphitou | PhD | Anthropology of cultural tourism, Cyprus, authenticity, Goddess Aphrodite |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Emily Pierini | PhD | Social anthropology, ethnography, religion, Brazil |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Eréndira Quintana Morales | PhD | African archaeology, Swahili culture, Ichthyo-archaeology, Kenya, fishing |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Bob Smisson | MLitt | Somerset, Western Roman Empire, Kingdom of Wessex |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Peter Steer | MLitt | Laocoon, Rome, Alfred Gell, Charles Peirce |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Chantel Summerfield | MLitt | Nature, warfare, twentieth century, wood, Canadian Forestry Corps |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Aisling Tierney | MLitt | Archaeology, history, Hell-Fire, anarchy, materiality |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | Jane Whitaker | MLitt | Renaissance, garden architecture, Elizabethan court |
| Archaeology and Anthropology | John Winterburn | MLitt | Conflict landscape archaeology, Jordan, 20th-Century |
| Classics and Ancient History | Harriet Batten-Foster | PhD | Baroque and Hellenistic art, Johann Joachim Winckelmann |
| Classics and Ancient History | Heather Hunter Crawley | MLitt | Christian art, early Christianity, late Antiquity, the senses, phenomenology, sensory archaeology |
| Classics and Ancient History | Benjamin Earley | MLitt | Thucydides, political thought, eighteenth century |
| Classics and Ancient History | Colin Elliott | PhD | Debasement, inflation, third century, integration, silver, coinage, mone |
| Classics and Ancient History | Rebecca Horwood | MLitt | Thucydides, plague, Edward Jenner |
| Classics and Ancient History | Shushma Malik | PhD | Nero, Book of Revelation, First Beast, Sibylline Oracles, Ascension of Isaiah |
| Classics and Ancient History | James McDermott | MLitt | Michel de Montaigne, Spartan ethics, Renaissance |
| Classics and Ancient History | Wendy Sijnesael | MLitt | Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema |
| Classics and Ancient History | Peter Steer | MLitt | Laocoon, Rome, Alfred Gell, Charles Peirce |
| Classics and Ancient History | Paul Stevens | MA | Cicero, English Civil War, the American Revolution, Hobbes, Cromwell, Jefferson, Washington |
| Classics and Ancient History | Andreas Stradis | MLitt | Thucydides, US Naval War College, Vietnam War, Superintendent Admiral Turner |
| Classics and Ancient History | Alexandra Wardrop | MLitt | Plato, Timaeus-Critias, feminisms |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Thomas Bacon | MLitt | Live art/body art, Butoh |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Chrystal Cherniwchan | MPhil | Women, science, feminism |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Paul Geary | MPhil | Heston Blumenthal, performativity of food |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Chutima Maneewattana | MLitt | Beckett, Buddhism, Thailand |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Bim Mason | PhD | Street theatre, popular, contemporary, provocation |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Jo Ana Morfin | PhD | Archives, electronic and digital works |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Szabolcs Musca | PhD | Central and Eastern European theatre, dramaturgy |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Adam O'Brien | PhD | American cinema |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Elaine O'Sullivan | PhD | Anne Seagrave, the ‘Uncanny’, psychoanalytic and deconstructive discourse |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Heebon Park-Finch | PhD | English literature, modern drama, Tom Stoppard, hypertextuality, polyphony |
| Drama: Theatre, Film, Television | Nataporn Rattanachaiwong | MLitt | Cross-cultural adaptations, Thai theatre |
| English | Anne Baden-Daintree | PhD | Grief, bereavement, gender, Chaucer, Machaut, Charles d’Orléans |
| English | Jen Baker | MLitt | Child theory, monstrous child, horror fiction, the uncanny, psychoanalysis |
| English | Simone Bovair | MLitt | Chaucer |
| English | Ian Calvert | MPhil | Virgil, Dryden, Aeneid |
| English | Stephanie Codsi | MLitt | Self-annihilation, enthusiasm, inspiration, sex, sacrifice, prophecy, poetry |
| English | Frances Eustace | MLitt | Carols, Dance-song. festivals, celebrations, street music |
| English | Elsa Hammond | MLitt | Elegy, breath, Coleridge, Tennyson, Hardy, insubstantiality |
| English | Chiung-Ying Huang | PhD | 19th c. literature of decadence, the pre-Raphaelite |
| English | Rebecca Hutcheon | MLitt | George Gissing, space |
| English | Ellen Kirkpatrick | PhD | Fan and reception studies; comics scholarship; body and identity studies; visual sociology and visual studies; theories of power and marginalisation |
| English | Conny Lippert | PhD | American Gothic literature, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, New England |
| English | Johnny McFadyen | PhD | Latin historiography, medieval romance, Arthuriana, Twelfth-century literature |
| English | Stacey McDowell | PhD | Keats, Romanticism, drama, Proteus, disinterestedness, empathy |
| English | Jimmy Packham | MLitt | Sickness, illness, Romantic English literature, 'invisible worm' |
| English | Catherine Redford | PhD | Apocalypse, last man on earth, Romantic literature, friendship |
| English | Craig Savage | MLitt | Dylan, America, landscape, myth |
| English | Peter Sloane | MLitt | David Foster Wallace, Free Will |
| English | Rachel Stenner | MLitt | Printing, paratexts, early modern, William Caxton, William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser. |
| English | Reza Taher | PhD | English poetry, Persian literature, Edward Said |
| English | Hannah Walters | MLitt | Twelfth-century literature, multilingualism, Anglo-Norman, Latin, England |
| History | Clive Abbott | PhD | Northern Ireland, Irish Boundary Commission, Irish Free State |
| History | Kaori Abe | MLitt | Hong Kong, Shanghai |
| History | Istvan Pal Adam | MLitt | Holocaust, Hungary, building managers |
| History | Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer | PhD | Philip II, sixteenth century |
| History | Dean Blackburn | PhD | Penguin, centre-left in Britain, Social Democratic Party |
| History | Laura Callingham | MLitt | Order of the Garter, Order of the Star, Hundred Years' War, military elite, kingship |
| History | Emma M Croker | MLitt | Apocalypse manuscripts, Book of Revelation, devotion, contemplation |
| History | Peter Evans | MLitt | Socialism, utopianism, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Equality, William Morris' News from Nowhere |
| History | Andrew Flack | MLitt | Human-animal relations, Bristol Zoo Gardens |
| History | Gillian Harris | MLitt | Newgate, prison reform |
| History | David Harry | PhD | Medieval, history, monasticism, devotion, manuscripts |
| History | Chris Heal | MLitt | Felt hat industry, Bristol, South Gloucestershire |
| History | Daniel Hopper | PhD | J.O.P. Bland, China, British imperialism |
| History | Isabella Jackson | PhD | China, semi-colonialism, informal empire, municipal governance, reform |
| History | Sarah-Joy Maddeaux | MLitt | Bristol Zoo Gardens, Clifton, West of England |
| History | Margery Masterson | PhD | 19th century; military; media; empire; scandal |
| History | Brian Paisley | MLitt | Gender, sexuality, religion, modern Paganism |
| History | William Raybould | PhD | East India Company, British Empire |
| History | John Reeks | PhD | Diocese of Bath and Wells, Charles I, Personal Rule, Church of England |
| History | Richard Stone | PhD | Bristol, overseas trade, American Civil War |
| History | Edwina Thorn | PhD | Medieval, classics, reception, intellectual history, Renaissance |
| History | Harriett Webster | PhD | Chronicon Anglicanum, Ralph of Coggeshall, Cistercian order |
| History | Sam Webster Mayers | MLitt | Theurgy, Iamblichus, Ficino, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn |
| History | Jillian Williams | PhD | Religious identity, Inquisition, role of meat, Spain |
| History | Jim Williams | MLitt | Chinese Maritime Customs, corruption, business community |
| History | Chan Yang | MLitt | Sino-Japanese relations, war memories |
| History | David M. Yorath | PhD | Henry VII, 'Ricardianism', Fortescue, meritocracy, Anglo-Scottish frontier |
| History of Art | Gaie Burnet | PhD | Simone Martini, Medieval, Siena, canonization, vita icons |
| History of Art | Theodora Clarke | MLitt | Art history, Russian avant-garde, Soviet art, Katherine Dreier, Societé Anonyme, Museum of Modern Art |
| History of Art | Rachel Flynn | PhD | Art History, 20th-Century, British Art, archives, museums |
| History of Art | Darrelyn Gunzburg | PhD | Art history, medieval, fresco, Giotto, astrology/astronomy |
| History of Art | Catherine Hunt | PhD | Gloves, paintings, narrative devices |
| History of Art | Joanna Karlgaard | PhD | Frederick Sandys, Victorian culture |
| History of Art | Eunmin Lim | MLitt | Murray Marks, Chinese porcelain, Renaissance art, British Aestheticism |
| History of Art | Erica O'Brien | MLitt | Netherlandish paintings and manuscripts, women’s devotional portraits, Margaret of York, Mary of Burgundy, Margaret of Austria, panel paintings |
| History of Art | Elizabeth Robles | PhD | Afro-Asian British Art, costume, mask, gender and sexual identities, performativity |
| History of Art | Laurence Shafe | PhD | Darwin, beauty, nineteenth century, aesthetic movement |
| History of Art | Wendy Sijnesael | MLitt | Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema |
| History of Art | Peter Stilton | MLitt | Nuclear conflict, Pop Art, Colin Self, Gustav Metzger, Jeff Nuttall |
| History of Art | Theresa Vella | PhD | Early modern, collections, patronage, Malta, Order of St John, inventories |
| History of Art | Georgina Webb-Dickin | MLitt | Berlin Wall, reunification of Berlin |
| Modern Languages | Jade Bailey | PhD | Hundred Years' War, Margaret of Anjou, Shrewsbury Book |
| Modern Languages | Andrea Beaghton | MPhil | French Romanticism,Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris, George Sand, 'Lélia', Catholicism |
| Modern Languages | Aurélie Daulny | MLitt | Science fiction, Maurice Renard |
| Modern Languages | Maria Klaehn | MLitt | Socialism, Motherhood, Family Policies, Gender roles, GDR, FRG |
| Modern Languages | Antônio Márcio da Silva | PhD | Brazilian cinema, femme fatale, gender, race, social class |
| Modern Languages | James McFarthing | MLitt | Jules Verne, French utopian writing, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Cabet |
| Modern Languages | Miriam Munoyerro | MPhil | Miguel Delibes, Spanish Civil war, realism |
| Modern Languages | Hannah Scott | MLitt | France, glass culture, selfhood, Guy de Maupassant, Emile Zola |
| Modern Languages | Tamzin Simmons | MLitt | Dante, Divine Comedy, truth |
| Modern Languages | Claire Thomas | MLitt | Giuseppe Ungaretti, travel writing, inter-war period, post-colonial theory, fascism |
| Modern Languages | Jessica Tipton | PhD | Multilingualism, Francophonie, Historical sociolinguistics, Russian nobility, Pre-revolutionary Russia, Vorontsov family, Dashkova |
| Modern Languages | Cathleen Schmitke | MLitt | Chile, Mapuche women, tourism |
| Modern Languages | Francesca Lo Vetere | MLitt | Pasquale Maria Benza, 19th century, anthropology, Sicilian, exploration |
| Music | Rosie Buggins | MLitt | Coventry Pontifical, transmission patterns |
| Music | Nuno Estrela | MMus | Quantitative and qualitative models, sound qualities, technology |
| Music | Hans Michael Anselmo Hess | PhD | Brazil, samba, film |
| Music | Shubing Jia | PhD | Music, history, 17th and 18th centuries, cultural exchange, missionaries |
| Music | Nicholas Nourse | PhD | Popular song, folk song, commodity, tradition, change |
| Music | Ali Pemble | PhD | Medieval; symbolism; trumpet; Logos; harmony |
| Music | Christopher Redwood | PhD | William Hurlstone |
| Music | Stephen Rockey | MMus | Musical tonality, musical theatre |
| Music | Eric Samothrakis | PhD | Sound-art, technology, physical gesture |
| Music | Tim Summers | MLitt | Video games, popular music, film/TV, 20th century music, music and drama |
| Music | Kostas Tsioulakis | PhD | Acoustique Composition, polyrhythmic textures, East Mediterranean music |
| Philosophy | Justin Alam | PhD | Kant, ethics development, self-deception, virtue |
| Philosophy | Marianna Antonutti Marfori | PhD | Mathematics, informal provability, Gödel's disjunction |
| Philosophy | Andrew Atkinson | PhD | Religion, evolution, atheism |
| Philosophy | Megan Blomfield | MLitt | Global justice, climate change |
| Philosophy | Richard Bowles | MLitt | Natural kinds, clustered properties |
| Philosophy | Neil Coleman | MLitt | Logical Pluralism |
| Philosophy | Chris Gifford | PhD | Supervaluationism, epistemicism, mereology, vagueness, structuralism |
| Philosophy | Kate Hodesdon | MLitt | Structural realism, model theory, reference, representation, criteria of identity |
| Philosophy | Milena Ivanova | PhD | Structural Realism, Conventionalism, Underdetermination, Theory Choice, Geometry |
| Philosophy | Antony Lamb | PhD | Ethics, war, rights, resort to force, self-defence, duty to rescue |
| Philosophy | Kit Patrick | MLitt | Geology, generation, C.S. Peirce |
| Philosophy | Bryony Pierce | MLitt | Consciousness, action, cognition, emotion, sensation |
| Philosophy | Thomas Richardson | PhD | Ethical naturalism, moral supervenience |
| Philosophy | Victoria Stone | PhD | Propositional knowledge, philosophy of mind, epistemology |
| Philosophy | Peter Wanyonje | MLitt | Philosophy of mind/language |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Joe Baker | MLitt | N.T. Wright, 'Christian Origins', Paul Ricoeur, gospels |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Emma Callister | MLitt | Bernard of Clairvaux, Martin Luther, Medieval, Reformation, Unity, Justification |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Jim Carr | PhD | Europe, liberal democracy, Catholicism, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Jürgen Habermas |
| Theology and Religious Studies | M.Pauline Gibson | MLitt | Saints, veneration, twentieth-century sainthood |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Hilary Herdman | PhD | Pilgrimage, Buddhism |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Robert Kinney | PhD | New testament, ancient philosophy, gospels, Greek, education |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Emily Rhodes | MLitt | Catherine of Siena, cult of saints, medieval Italian spirituality |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Massimo Rondolino | PhD | Hagiography, Tibetan Buddhism, medieval Christianity |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Fr Bede Rowe | MLitt | Catholic Ecclesiology, Nostra Aetate, Jewish people |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Jordan Wessling | PhD | Analytic theology, divine love |
| Theology and Religious Studies | Andrew Wormald | PhD | Buddhism, meditation, modernity, identity |
