Who we are

The following list gives an indication of our research specialisms. Please click on the name of the member of staff to see a more detailed research profile. We welcome inquiries from potential research students wishing to work broadly in these areas:

• Professor Owen Davies (witchcraft; magic; ghosts;, popular medicine; early modern and modern social history)
• Dr Jennifer Evans (early modern bodies; reproductive health; gender; medicine)
• Dr Ceri Houlbrook (intangible cultural heritage; material culture; folklore and ritual; contemporary history and archaeology)
• Dr Katrina Navickas (18th and 19th century British history; protest and social movements; digital history)
• Professor Tony Shaw (contemporary international history; propaganda; Cold War; film and history; Arab-Israeli conflict)
• Dr William Bainbridge (historical geography, landscape history heritage, nineteenth century, Alps, Italy)
• Dr Daniel Grey (gender; law; crime; imperial and colonial history; 19th and 20th centuries)
• Leanne Calvert (gender history; women's history; Irish history;  religion and the family - particularly the Presbyterian community)
• Grace Lees-Maffei (design history; critical heritage history; cultural history;  and domesticity)
• Jonathan Morris (coffee, consumer society in 19th and 20th C; Italian fascism)

• Dr Judy Faraday: Visiting Research Fellow
• Andrew Green: Senior Research Fellow, media advisor and co-ordinator of oral history events
• Mr Fabian Hiscock: Visiting Research Fellow
• Dr Bridget Long: Visiting Research Fellow
• Dr David Postles: Honorary Senior Research Fellow
• Dr Janice Turner:  Visiting Research Fellow
• Dr Julie Moore Visiting Research Fellow

Current or recent postgraduate research students in History:

• Katie Allen (History PhD Programme): ‘The creation of magical landscapes in contemporary tradition ’
• Annie Bussell (History PhD Programme) 'Regulating Prostitution in the Three Towns: a comparative study of policing responses to prostitution and its related problems, in Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse, 1850-1914'
• Helen Casey (Professional Doctorate in Heritage): 'Creating an Online Digital Museum: How organisations can use their past to project their brand’
• Peter Elliott (History PhD Programme) 'The Growth of Aviation Museums in the United Kingdom'
• Sarah Fitzpatrick (Professional Doctorate in Heritage) 'The Museum Trustee: exploring theory, policy and practice in governance at small heritage sites
• Sarah-Jane Harknett (Professional Doctorate in Heritage) 'Evaluation as Interpretation: Measuring Engagement in Museums and Galleries'
• Janine Marriott (History PhD Programme): ‘Dead Interesting: Public engagement in and with Sites of Cemeteries and Graveyards (UK , Ireland and Europe)
• Sharon Maxwell Magnus (History PhD Programme): 'More than just a glossy cover: The role of women's magazines in reflecting the women's equality agenda between 1976 and 1997 in England and Wales'
• David Noble (History PhD Programme): ‘Primitive Methodism in 19th century Hertfordshire'
• Pauline Schofield (History PhD Programme) 'A Life Geography of L.Edna Walter BSc OBE (1866-1962), Woman of Science, Agent of the State, Mountaineer: Women's Emancipation at the Intersection of Space, Place, Gender and Power'
• Dianne Shepherd (History PhD Programme): ‘Women’s agency in the east end of London, 1840-1880’
• Miranda Spraggs (History PhD Programme) ' The Magical and Mundane. An Interdisciplinary Folkloric Approach'
• Barbara Wood (Professional Doctorate in Heritage): ‘Authenticity and the Presentation of Heritage: An analysis of authority, knowledge and power in the collection and management of history and the creation of visitor “experience”’