PhD research
Find out more about our current PhD students' research topics and read their research blog posts.
Linda-Jane Buckle
Postgraduate Research Student
Linda-Jane.Buckle@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Diplomatic communication between Iran, UK and US since 1979."
Rachel Collett
Postgraduate Research Student
rachel.collett@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title
“Equal pay for women and Tories Out!”: The Women’s Movement in Merseyside, c.1968-1990
Heather Cowan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Bodies of (Dis)Order: Definitions of Abortion in Early Modern England."
Catherine Crossley
Postgraduate Research Student
Catherine.Crossley@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Monstrous men in the medieval mind: intertextuality and interpretation, c.1200-1350."
James Duncan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The Construction of Christian Identity in Late Antique North Africa, 350-533"
Chloé Duteil
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“The Celtic Edge: Amphibious Environments and Senses of Self on the Breton and Welsh Coasts, 1870s-1930s”
Michelle Girvan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“Charity, Piety and Commerce: The Liverpool Blue Coat School and Pragmatic Politeness, 1708–1796."
Synthia Hynes
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The English Ambassadress in a Cosmopolitan World: Women, Diplomacy and Politics in the Long 18th Century"
Drahoslava Máchová
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title
Challenging the White Eastern Block Myth: The Cuban Diaspora in Socialist Czechoslovakia (Working title)
Emily McIndoe
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"A Cold War Conundrum: British Aid to El Salvador, 1970 – 2009"
Joel Mead
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title
Breaking and Remaking the British Egg: Intersections of Class, Health and Animal Welfare, 1956-1999.
Lucy Moynihan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title
Race, Slavery and Abolition at the Liverpool Athenaeum and Beyond, 1797-1833.
Daniel Payne
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Liverpool: The anatomy of Social and Political change 1918-1939."
Amy Solomons
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Books for Everyone? National Trust Libraries and their Reading Communities in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Frank Thorpe
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Changing attitudes to smell in twentieth-century British personal hygiene"
Catherine Tully
Postgraduate Research Student
Catherine.Tully@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Bare lives/ abject deaths: abolitionism, affect, and the execution of women in Britain 1868-1968."
Justice Ujoumunna
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Digital Evidence in the Nigerian Legal System: Admissibility and Evidential Weight of Digital Records"
Elizabeth Wilkinson
Postgraduate Research Student
Elizabeth.Wilkinson@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title
Death and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century England: Preparing to Die, Funerals and the Afterlife