Research Students
The Archaeology Department is home to a lively community of students studying for MPhil and PhD degrees
Our research students are researching topics as varied as deviant burials of the Roman period, stratigraphic modelling of urban archaeological deposits in British towns and media reporting of underwater archaeology.
Facilities and training
Full-time research students have their own office space and the same library borrowing and IT rights as members of staff, while part-time research students have the same IT and library access as full time students, but have access to shared office space in the University's Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE) Centre as well as within the Archaeology Department. An individualised programme of subject-specific training is provided according to need, while research students also attend generic research skills training classes together with students from all other University research centres.
Research topics and supervision
We welcome research students in any area where we have staff expertise. In the first instance prospective students are asked to contact the member of staff who is most appropriate to supervise their topic. The prospective student should then contact the RKE Centre to formally apply for a place on the research student programme once the topic has been discussed and agreed with a supervisor. Full details of application procedures and fees are available here.
We can supervise the following research themes:
Dr Paul Everill
History of Archaeology, historic archaeology in the Caucasus, Cultural Resource Management, excavation techniques and approaches.
Dr Niall Finneran
Early Christianity in African and the Near East, medieval archaeology of East Africa, the Near East and Arabia, Colonial archaeology of the Caribbean, medieval settlement in South-West England.
Prof. Tony King
Roman Britain, Romano-Celtic temples, Roman Religion, Roman Italy, Gaul and North Africa.
Dr Simon Roffey
Church archaeology, medieval religion, medieval settlement in southern England.
Dr Nick Thorpe
Bronze Age and Neolithic Europe, disposal of the dead in prehistory, prehistoric warfare.
Dr Keith Wilkinson
Geoarchaeology, Mediterranean landscape archaeology, Palaeolithic archaeology, archaeological field techniques, cultural resource management.
Dr Phil Marter
The Medieval pottery industry, the archaeology of WWI & II, the archaeology of the Military Orders, the Archaeology of Colonial America.
Current research students
For information on the broad range of topics our current research student community is working on, visit the Current Research Students page.