PhD research students
Postgraduate research students are valued members of our research community. Find out more about our current PhD students and their work.
Carly Ameen
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"A new look at an old friend: A geometric, morphometric approach to examining morphological diversity and investigating human-canid relationships in New World prehistory"
Stacey Astill
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The lived experience of Allied POWs in Europe 1939-45: the habitus of camp life”
Charlotte Bell
Postgraduate research student
Thesis Title:
"A Comparative Model on the Identity of Women in the Late Iron Age – Romano British Period in Mortuary Contexts"
Adam Benton
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Size Matters: A large-scale analysis of archaeological proxies for Palaeolithic demography"
Patrick Biedermann
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"From Clay to Stone: Architecture, Urbanism, monumentality and political change in Northern Syria based on Steinbau I (Area A) at Tell Chuera, Syria"
Kristian Boote
Postgraduate Research Student
hskboote@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Reassessment of the emergence of the 'Obstetric Dilemma', and the emergence of birth assistance behaviours in human evolution"
Emily Bowyer Kazadi
Postgraduate Reseach Student
emily-bowyer-kazadi@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Evaluating Public Engagement and Narratives within the Archaeological Landscapes of the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors."
Phyliss Brighouse
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Classics, Youth and Empire, 1919-1939"
Kate Caraway
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Tyranny and Social Organisation in Archaic Athens"
Mattia Cartolano
Postgraduate Research Student
Mattia.Cartolano@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations as key factors in the evolution of social cognition among Neolithic communities of Southwest Asia"
Xueting Chao
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Divine kings and the god-king ruling pattern in Ur III Dynasty”
Megan Clark
Postgraduate research student
Thesis Title:
"Ancient Egyptian Paddle Dolls: Attributes and Analysis"
Dominic Coe
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Testing the Efficiency Hypothesis of Hafted Tool Technology"
Rachael Cornwell
Postgraduate Research Student
hsrcornw@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Evidence for Resynthesis in Writing: a Study with a Primary Focus on Egyptian and a Cross Linguistic Comparison."
Ross Cronshaw
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Re-examining the Roman auxilia; an investigation into arms, armour and battlefield roles."
Marvin Demicoli
Postgraduate Research Student
marvin.demicoli@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Fuelling urbanisation: a study of woodland composition in relation to the rise of urban centres in Neolithic China"
Alistair Dickey
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Neolithic to Old Kingdom Egyptian Cloth: An exploration of the social, technological and international contexts of cloth and textile production."
Xiaobo Dong
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Warfare and Booty in Ur III Dynasty”
Anthony Ferrol
Postgraduate Research Student
hsaferro@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"A study of terms of possession within the private economical documents from the Ramesside workers' village at Deir el-Medina"
Hannah Godfrey
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Language as Categorisation: The use of determinative A24 in hieratic and hieroglyphic texts of the Old Kingdom"
Diederik Halbertsma
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Episodic Labour Mobilisation During the Levant’s ‘Dark Ages’: The View from Khirbet al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya"
Sarah Hitchens
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Egyptian Textiles: A History in Fibres"
John Knight
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Archaic Milesian Migration in Though and Reality"
Caroline Komboh
Postgraduate Research Student
Caroline.Komboh@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis:
My Thesis is on the Mineralogy of Argillaceous sediments and geoimagery interpretation of quaternary hominid environments: A case study of Kilombe Caldera, Kenya.
Daniel Lowes
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The Hellenistic Coins of the Late Republic’"
James McDonough
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"An Archaeological Investigation into the British Sieges of the Peninsular War from 1811-1812"
Serafina Nicolosi
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Imagining Miletos: identity and representations of archaic Milesian elites"
Diana Nikolova
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Debasement and Economic Fluctuations in Hellenistic Egypt: Compositional Analysis of Ptolemaic Silver and Bronze Coinage."
Louise O'Brien
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Public vs Private: Reconstructing Hybrid Culture and Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt"
Claire Ollett
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Architecture, Iconography and Texts in the Temple of Hatshesut at Deir el-Bahari Motivations and Agenda"
Henry Pelgrift
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Untold Stories: How Cylinder Seal's defined Ancient Near Eastern Material Culture Studies"
Jo-Hannah Plug
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Uncovering a Community: Investigating lifestyles and death ways at Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria."
Federico Poggiali
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Environmental change and prehistoric landscape practices in the south-west Italian peninsula during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: a study of anthracological remains from Grotta del Romito, Grotta della Serratura and Grotta d'Oriente."
Lucy Quine
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Herodotus in Modernity"
Ademar Quint Camara
Postgraduate Research Student
A.Quint-Camara@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
“Multimodal Literacy in the Southern Levant Iron Age II from a materiality and literary formulae approach.”
Bela Santa
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"C19th Hungarian scholarship and the Roman Empire."
Charlotte Sargent
Postgraduate Research Student
hscsarge@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"The Conceptualisation, Expression and Social Context of Friendship in Egypt in the 2nd Millenium BC"
Ozlem Saritas
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Hunting and Early Herding Strategies in the Neolithic of Central Anatolia: the 9th millenium site of Boncuklu Höyük"
Christopher Scott
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Deconstructing a stone age icon"
Dan Socaciu
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Multiculturalism in the ancient world: a critical interdisciplinary assessment of the Urartian kingdom, its material culture and peoples"
Dominik St Angelo
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"An examination of Greek and Etruscan city wall construction during the archaic age (including the impact of Urbanization upon) and the development of a modelling system to determine the man-hours and costs of such building."
Kevin Stoba
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Mapping Mithraic Cults Across the Roman West"
Peter Taylor
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"An Archaeological and Documentary Study of the Maritime Trade in Clay Tobacco Pipes prior to the British Civil Wars."
Elizabeth Thomas
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Reflections in Time: investigating the social role of mirrors in Ancient Egypt through metallurgical analysis."
Lucy Timbrell
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Movement, interaction and structure: modelling population networks in the eastern African Middle Stone Age"
Francesca Tomei
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Ancient Greek pottery kilns in their landscape setting: exploring the intersection of technology, environment, society and economy"
Jason Walton
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The Aftermath of the 8.2k Climatic Event in Southeast Anatolia: A Study of Anthracological Remains from the Late Neolithic Site of Domuztepe."
Margherita Zona
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“Revealing the human exploitation of salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) on the Pacific coast of North America: A morphometric and biomolecular approach to reconstructing precontact subsistence strategies and human responses to climate change”