Our Graduates

Sophie Lewincamp (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2022) 'Tiered Contact Zones: A New Engagement Model for Cultural Materials Conservation' Over recent decades, there has been increasing recognition of the need for conservators to engage and collaborate with the communities associated with the origin, ownership, and use of cultural objects. Such collaboration has developed more detailed knowledge and understanding than is possible …

David Liknaitzky (PhD in Philosophy, 2022) 'In Search of Just, Humanised Work: Overcoming Workplace Oppression and Rethinking Leadership to Create the Conditions for Human Flourishing at Work' Organisations have evolved historically such that, in some instances, it has become the norm to treat employees in ways that would otherwise not be tolerated (or, at least, far less tolerated) in the broader …

Giovanni Piccolo (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2022), 'The Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium by Gaius Julius Solinus: A Roman Geography for a Changing World' The Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium is a collection of wondrous facts from various areas of natural science presented within the geographical framework of a description of the known world. Little is known of its author Gaius Julius Solinus, possibly …

Elizabeth Tunstall (PhD in History, 2022) 'The Elizabethan Succession Question and Competing Understandings of Monarchy, 1558–1603' Queen Elizabeth I ruled England for almost 45 years (1558–1603) and, throughout her reign, the succession was a prominent source of debate and anxiety. This thesis surveys the Elizabethan succession question for the entirety of her reign, instead of dividing the topic into early or …