Skip to main content

Archaeology Postgraduate Research Students

Learn about some of the research undertaken by our current postgraduate archaeology students and recent graduates.

Current students

Justine Mclean

Justine Mclean's PhD centres on evidence from the martial culture Early Modern and Medieval world. Read more.

Alessandro Armigliato

Alessandro's subject area is archaeology. His project title is 'Prehistoric copper technology in Italy: towards a new model'. Read more about Alessandro's research.

Eleonora Montanari

Eleonora's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is 'Gendered Stories: Constructing identities through glass beads in Iron Age Italy and Iberia'. Read more about Eleonora's research.

Douglas Carr

Douglas's subject area is archaeology. His PhD project title is 'Roman Coins from Hadrian’s Wall and the Northern Frontier Zone'. Read more about Douglas's research.

John Pearson

John's subject area is archaeology. His PhD project title is Experiencing Medieval Craft Practice: New Approaches to Glass Production in Islamic Iberia.

Phyllida Bailey

Phyllida's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is The environmental impact of political, military and religious changes in the Eastern Caelian. Read more about Phyllida's research.

Eleanor Harrison

Eleanor's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is Single burial traditions and identity in Neolithic Britain and Ireland. Read more about Eleanor's research.

Eniko Hudak

Eniko's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is 'Networks of Exchange and Exploitation: The Distribution of Mancetter-Hartshill mortaria in Roman Britain'.

Olivia Russell

Olivia's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is 'In Life, Through Death: Bracteate Biographies and the Polysemy of Bracteates in Late Antique Europe'

Rebecca Nashan

Rebecca's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is 'Burials between the Ages. A new Model of Mortuary Assemblages and Chronology of the Upper Rhine, circa mid-4th – mid-5th century AD'

Recent graduates

Mara Lou Schumacher

Mara Lou Schumacher works in geoarchaeology and micromorphology. Her PhD is 'From archive to microscope: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding domestic organisation in ancient Greece'.

Violeta Tsenova

Violeta's subject area is interdisciplinary spanning history, archaeology, IT, heritage and Digital Cultures. Her project title is 'Critical Making and Innovation Heritage'. Read more.

Daisy-Alys Vaughan

Daisy-Alys's subject area is archaeology. Her project title is 'The Shefton Archive – Enhancing a Collection’s History through Object Biographies'. Read more about Daisy-Alys's research.

Liz Shaw

Liz Shaw's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD title is 'Best foot forward: Footwear, identity and status in the North-Western provinces of the Roman Empire'. Read more about Liz's research.

Alicia Hart Sawyer

Alicia's area is geoarchaeology and micromorphology. Her PhD looks at Developing the Potential of Ash through Integrating Microfossil Analysis and Geochemistry in Viking Age Iceland. Read more.

Marco Romeo Pitone

Marco's subject area is archaeology. His PhD project title is 'Reconstructing Early Cypriot Metallurgy: The Case of Pyrgos-Mavroraki'. Read more about Marco's research.

Ben Morton

Ben's subject area is archaeology. His PhD project title is 'Understanding the Dynamics of Medieval Landscape Change in England c.800 to c.1600'. Read more about Ben's research.

Victoria A. L. Lucas

Victoria's subject area is archaeology. Her PhD project title is 'Looking Through the Glass: glass chemistry as a window on Early Medieval innovation, recycling, trade and contact, AD 700-1000'.

Gianluca Foschi

Gianluca's subject area is archaeology. His PhD project title is 'The Role of Musical Proportions in Early Christian Buildings'. Read more about Gianluca's research.