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Historical & Cultural Geography research cluster

Current and recent research students

The research cluster also includes an active group of PhD students:

Current students

Name Phd title and details Supervisor(s)
Joseph Barker The emergence of agrarian capitalism: farm sizes in early modern England. Funding: ESRC. Began 2008. Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Lyn Boothman Studying the Stayers - an investigation of the immobile population of Long Melford, Suffolk 1550-1861. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2008. Prof Richard Smith
Chay Brooks The Geographies of International Education and US Foreign Policy, c.1945-1969. Funding: AHRC. Began 2010. Dr David Nally
Joseph Day Household Formation and Leaving Home in Nineteenth-Century Proto-Industrial England & Wales: 1851-1881. Funding: Domestic Research Studentship & Ellen McArthur Scholarship. Began 2009. Prof Richard Smith
Irene Haycock Agrarian Change in an Industrializing County: Staffordshire, 1650-1750. Funding: ESRC. Began 2010. Prof Richard Smith,
Dr Tim Bayliss-Smith
Jay Levy The impacts of Swedish sex work legislation - an applicable model?. Funding: ESRC. Began 2008. Dr Philip Howell
Stephen Taylor Spaces of Experiment: Global Clinical Research and the Search for Cures in South Africa. Funding: ESRC. Began 2009. Dr David Nally
Claire Warrior (Thesis title will be available in due course.) Dr Michael Bravo
Dagmar Zadrazilova (Thesis title will be available in due course.) Dr Philip Howell

Recently completed

Name Phd title and details Supervisor(s)
Christina Adcock Non-Institutional Knowledge and the Representation of the Canadian North, 1910-60. Funding: ORS, Commonwealth Trusts, Trinity Hall, Canadian Scholarships. Dr Michael Bravo
Jennifer Gold British Decolonisation, 'Manpower Resource' Debates and the Politics of Scientific Governance. Funding: ESRC. Dr Jim Duncan
Dinah Molloy Thompson Wind Vectors and ice observations recorded in British Arctic whaling logs during the late 18th and early 19th centrury. Funding: Self-funded. Dr Gareth Rees
Catherine Sumnall An investigation of bastardy in Carinthia, Austria c.1880-1960. Funding: ESRC. Prof Richard Smith

Note: only those students who have given their consent to be listed online are listed above.