Our research students
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| Elizabeth Alexander PhD |
Visualising the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
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| Jasmine Allen PhD |
Stained Glassworlds: Stained Glass and the International Exhibitions, c.1851-1900
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| Keith Barley MA by Research |
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| Beatrice Bertram PhD |
William Etty and the Royal Academy (AHRC funded CDA)
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| Caitlin Blackwell PhD |
John Collet (ca. 1725-1780) and Pictorial Satire in England, 1760-1780
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| Anna Bonewitz PhD |
The circulation of fashion in the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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| Megan Boulton PhD |
Conceptualisation of Sacred Space in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in the Sixth to Ninth Centuries
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| Kirsty Breedon PhD |
Herbert Ward: Sculpture, Politics and Exploration in the Atlantic World, 1884 to the Present
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Karen Brett |
Spitting on an Angel, Trampling a Saint: Reading the Medieval English Pavement
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| Jung Gyun Chae MPhil |
Influence of Asian art on Abstract Expressionism in America since 1938
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| Bogdan Cornea PhD |
Towards the Sublime: Images of Flaying in the art of Jusepe de Ribera
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| Joanne Dillon PhD |
The Lost Dimension: Medieval Window Lead – A Study of Sources, Craft and Conservation
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| Kirstin Donaldson PhD |
'Experiment': A Reassessment of Surrealism in England 1928-1931
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Charlotte Drew |
The formation and early development of the sculpture collections of the South Kensington Museum
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| Zoe Dumelow PhD |
Visual Representations of Biblical Dreams in England, c.1200-1350
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Agnes Fazakas |
Sensing Sacrament and Sacrafice: The Body of Christ in the art of Rosso Fiorentino
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| Alasdair Flint PhD |
The Virgin's House and other Architectural Narratives in Renaissance Marian Painting (AHRC funded CDA)
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| Aikaterini Georgoulia PhD |
The Rubensian Human Body: Visuality, Medicine and Diet in the Age of the Baroque
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| Cora Gilroy-Ware PhD |
The Classical Nude in Romantic Britain (AHRC funded CDA)
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| Caroline Good PhD |
Lovers of Art: English writers on painting and the narratives of nation, 1658-1719 Part of the AHRC research project: 'Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735.'
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| Marie-Helene Groll PhD |
William Burrell, Thomas & Drake, and the Transatlantic Trade in Stained Glass 1900-1950 (AHRC funded CDA)
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| Louise Hampson PhD |
The history and development of the stained and painted glass of York Minster from the late fifteenth century to 1829
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| Izzy Hampton PhD |
Lords of the North? Aristocratic identities in fourteenth century art and architecture
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| Anya Heilpern PhD |
The painted glass of Winchester Cathedral: c.1495-c.1528
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| Melissa Herman PhD |
An Art of Transition: Anglo-Saxon Art from the sixth to the eighth centuries
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| James Hillson PhD |
International linkage in Gothic Art and Architecture in English royal circles through the case study of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster (1231-1363)
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| Benjamin Hutchinson PhD |
Is there such a thing as Antwerp Mannerism, or is this a convenient fictionalisation of the past?
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| James Jago PhD |
Court, Capital, Province: The Reassessment and Exemplars of Private Religious Space in Early Modern England, 1600-1660
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Clive Jobbins |
The Iconography of the Angelic in Early Christian Anglo-Saxon Art (c. 600-900)
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| Lucinda Lax PhD |
'Telling the Eye a Moral Story': Edward Penny, Genre Painting and the Royal Academy
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| James Legard PhD |
Vanbrugh, Blenheim Palace, and the Meanings of Baroque Architecture
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| Arlene Leis PhD |
Sarah Sophia Banks: femininity, sociability and the practice of collecting in late eighteenth-century England
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| Eunmin Lim PhD |
Murray Marks (ca.1841-1918), Cultural Translator: British Aestheticism, Cataloguing Renaissance Bronzes and the Art Trade
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| Sophie Littlewood PhD |
Early Modern British Armour and the Fashioning of Masculinity
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| Livia Lupi PhD |
Fictive Architecture in Fifteenth-Century Italian Frescoes; with emphasis on Fra Angelico's Cappella Niccolina in the Vatican
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| Evan McWilliams PhD |
The English Use: Liturgy and the Arts in the Church of England 1895-1965
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| Emily Moore PhD |
A compositional analysis of John Singer Sargent’s portraits c. 1890-1914
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| Peter Moore PhD |
Graphic Art and Empire: British Visual Culture in the Atlantic World, 1660-1735
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Martin Nixon |
Baroque towns built in the Val di Noto area of Sicily, 1700-1780
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Dorothy Nott |
British Military Painting 1854-1914: Humanitarianism, Art and Popular Audiences
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| Melanie Polledri PhD |
Networks, Connections and Ambition: The work of Sir William Goscombe John 1899-1942
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| David Reid PhD |
The history of the re-used twelfth-century glass of York Minster
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| Elizabeth Renes PhD |
The 'Curious' John Singer Sargent: Cosmopolitan Aesthetics
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| Cicely Robinson PhD |
The National Gallery of Naval Art at Greenwich
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| Kuang Sheng PhD |
Female artists’ fantasy of ‘home-making’ in the world: Mona Hatoum, Yin Xiuzhen and Nikki S. Lee
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| Nicola Sinclair PhD |
The Implications of Religion for the Display and Reception of Altdeutsch Art at the Time of its Production, and of its Recontextualisation in the mid Nineteenth-Century National Gallery
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| Lyndsey Smith PhD |
Ivory Carvings in Early Medieval England
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| Rachel Smith PhD |
The International Context of the Art of St Ives 1948-60 (AHRC funded CDA)
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| Samuel Smith PhD |
The gardens of Rev William Mason
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| Catherine Spencer PhD |
Fieldwork: performing social science in North America, 1959-71
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| Konstantinos Stasinopoulos PhD |
Elsewhere: Women Artists in Exile and Protest since 1960
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| Harry Stirrup PhD |
Colour, Paint And Gold: The Materiality of English Manuscript Illumination in the Twelfth Century
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| Heidi Stoner PhD |
Representing Power and Majesty in Anglo-Saxon England
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| Robert Sutton PhD |
The Educational Roots of Henry Moore's Public Works, 1936-1955 (AHRC funded CDA)
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| Philip Thomas PhD |
John Coates Carter (1859-1927): architecture, Anglicanism and a sense of place in South Wales
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| Amy Tobin PhD |
The Participating Body: The Subject in the Field of Vision from 1968 to today
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| Philippa Turner PhD |
Image and Devotion in Late Medieval English Cathedrals
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| Katie Tyreman PhD |
Between Women: Visualising Victorian Women Artists' Identities through Art Movements, Media and Scale
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| Sean Willcock PhD |
Consolidating the Colonies: Art and Unrest in the British Empire, c.1855-1880
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Gabriel Williams |
Sculpture at the Victorian International Exhibitions
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Claire Yearwood |
Alice’s Glass: Mirrors in Nineteenth-Century Painting Supervisor: Liz Prettejohn |
Research schools
- British Art
- Medieval Art and Medievalisms
- Sculpture Studies
- Stained Glass Studies
- Architectural History and Theory
Research clusters
Postgraduate study
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