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Previous HRC Doctoral Fellows

L-R: Benjamin McDonald, Adam Timmins, Jennifer Buckley, Aidan Collins, Luke Giraudet, Rebecca Mellor, Owen Burton, Richard Ogden, Keith Allen, Caitlin Kitchener, Florence Oxley, Jennifer Barraclough, Helen Jacobs, Mary Haworth.

2019-20 Doctoral Fellows

Jennifer Buckley (English and Related Literature)

  • Periodicalist or Novelist? Fiction, Fake News and the 'Rise' of the Novel

Owen Burton (Music)

  • Balancing Old and New - The Music of Einojuhani Rautavaara

Aidan Collins (History)

  • Bankruptcy in the Court of Chancery, 1674-1750

Luke Giraudet (Centre for Medieval Studies)

  • Political Communication and Public Opinion in the ‘Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, 1405-1449’

Caitlin Kitchener (Archaeology)

  • 'I feel for your Sex, my dear': Perceptions on Female Reformers in 1819

Benjamin McDonald (Theatre, Film and Television)

  • Mental Illness and Dramatizing the Symptoms: A Playwright’s Perspective

Rebecca Mellor (History of Art) 

  • Measuring the Phallic: Statistical Analysis and the Visuality of Sex

Florence Oxley (Language and Linguistic Science)

  • Babble and the Brain

Adam Timmins (Philosophy) 

  • Historiographical Realism

HRC doctoral fellows 2018. L-R: James Tompkinson, Liam Maloney, Madeline Boden, Keith Allen (HRC Deputy Director), Kate Giles (HRC Acting Director), Jamie Cawthra, L Meghan Dennis, Richard Kearns, Rebecca Searby, Hannah Jeans, Antony Pak-Hang Huen.

2018-19 Doctoral Fellows

Madeline Boden (History of Art) 

  • A Relief from Classicism: Frederic Leighton in the Middle East, c.1858-1895

Jamie Cawthra (Philosophy) 

  • Impossible Fiction

L Meghan Dennis (Archaeology) 

  • Ethics, Digital Archaeology, and Archaeogaming: Examining Representations of Archaeology, Archaeologists, and Archaeological Ethics in Video-Games

Antony Pak-Hang Huen (English and Related Literature) 

  • Contemporary Poets, the Visual Arts, and Ekphrasis

Hannah Jeans (History) 

  • Women’s Reading Habits and Gendered Genres, c.1600 – c.1700

Richard Kearns (Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media) 

  • Soundweb & Interplay: Context, Meaning and Play in Interactive Artworks

Liam Maloney (Music) 

  • The Functions of Music: Conceptualising Listening from a Utilitarian Perspective

Rebecca Searby (Centre for Medieval Studies) 

  • England’s Jewish Community in the Royal Courts, 1216-1235

James Tompkinson (Language and Linguistic Science) 

  • Investigating listeners’ perceptions of spoken threat utterances

HRC doctoral fellows 2017. L-R: Jennifer Cohen, Jiyi Ryu, David Worsley, Fiona Keenan, Tom Powles, Carla Suthren, Claire Benson.

2017-18 Doctoral Fellows

Claire Benson, History

  • Boundaries of belonging in early modern London

Jennifer Cohen, Music

  • Playing with Time:The Interaction of Explicit and Tacit Knowledge in Musical Performance

Fiona Keenan, Theatre, Film and Television

  • Designing Digital Sound Machines

Tom Powles, Centre for Medieval Studies

  • A Craftsman of the Past: Storytelling and History in the writings of Orderic Vitalis

Jiyi Ryu, History of Art

  • Within, Within, Within: Encapsulating the British Imperial World

Carla Suthren, English and Related Literature

  • Shakespeare and the Renaissance Reception of Euripides

David Worsley, Philosophy

  • Making Amends: What? Why? How?

 

 

The 2016 HRC doctoral fellows and judges

2016-17 Doctoral Fellows

Liz Alexander, History of Art

  • Recovering the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon art

Zara Burford, Centre for Medieval Studies

  • Books, bones and brotherly love: reading monastic relationships through saints’ cults in the eleventh-century West Midlands

Maxine Gee, Theatre, Film and Television

  • Positive posthumans: How posthuman noir subverts traditional film noir tropes to privilege human characteristics in posthuman futures

Don Henson, Archaeology

  • The Meso-what? Public perceptions of the Mesolithic

Patrick Jones, Music

  • Wordless Narratives: making sounds make sense

Emma Martin, History

  • ‘It is al traueile in idl’: Occupation and idleness in late medieval society

Duncan Robertson, English and Related Literature

  • Health, medicine and Pacific travel, 1768-1900

2015-16 Doctoral Fellows

HRC doctoral fellows 2015. L-R: Catherine Laing, Catherine Oakley, Huw Halstead, Richard Powell, Jessica Hendy, Nicola Sinclair. Photo by Ian Martindale.

Huw Halstead, History

  •  Greeks without Greece: homelands, belonging, and multidirectional memory in the Greek diaspora

Catherine Oakley, English

  • Energised Bodies in Medicine and Culture, 1880-1925

Jessica Hendy, Archaeology

  • Molecular Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Nicola Sinclair, History of Art

  • An Uneasy Fit: Early German Paintings and New Frameworks of Value in Mid Nineteenth-Century Britain

Catherine Laing, Language and Linguistic Science

  • Exploring the Role of Onomatopoeia in Infant Language Development

Richard Powell, Music

  • Articulating Time: Listening to Musical Forms in the Twenty-first century

 HRC doctoral fellows 2014. L-R: Martin Scheuregger, Justin Sturgeon, Helen Bradley, Imke van Heerden, Bogdan Cornea, Emily Torricelli, David Ellis, Elaine Lopez. Photo by Ian Martindale.

2014-15 Doctoral Fellows

Martin Scheuregger, Music

  •  The conception of time and form: four ideas from composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Elaine Lopez, Language and Linguistic Science

  • The role of explicit instruction on article acquisition in L2 English

Justin Sturgeon, Centre for Medieval Studies

  • Text and image in Rene d'Anjou's Livre de tournois, 1460: Imagining chivalry and court culture in the 15th century

Helen Bradley, Philosophy

  • Pictorial representation and the significance of style

Bogdan Cornea, History of Art

  • 'Why tear me from myself?' The depiction of flaying in the art of Jusepe de Ribera

David Ellis, History

  • Pavement Politics: Community action in urban Britain, 1967-1987

Emily Torricelli, Theatre, Film and Television

  • Projecting the Nation: Constructions of Scotland in film since 1979

Imke van Heerden, English and Related Literature

  • The vulnerable body in contemporary South African literature

HRC Doctoral Fellows 2013. L-R: Sean Willcock, Angela Ranson, Dominic Shaw, David Roberts, Jon Hughes, Hannah Davies, Hollie Morgan, Adam Perchard, Natalie Fecher. Photo by Ian Martindale.

2013-14 Doctoral Fellows

Hannah Davies, Theatre, Film and Television

  • Crafting a Play: creative research and artistic license

Natalie Fecher, Language and Linguistic Science

  • The effect of forensically-realistic facial disguise on speech acoustics and audio-visual speech perception 

Jon Hughes, Music

  • Terrarium composition project

Hollie Morgan, Medieval Studies

  • Between the Sheets: Reading beds and chambers in late-medieval England

Adam Perchard, English and Related Literature

  • 'The Battle for Enlightenment': Rushdie, Islam and the West

Angela Ranson, History

  • Bishop John Jewel and the Catholicity of the Church of England

David Roberts, Archaeology

  • Roman attitudes towards the natural world: a comparison of Wessex and Provence

Dominic Shaw, Philosophy

  • Meaning and Understanding in Merleau-Ponty

Sean Willcock, History of Art

  • Combative Aesthetics: image-making and unrest in British India c.1857-1900 

HRC doctoral fellows 2012. L-R: Matt Jenkins, Mariana Lopez, Benjamin Gait, Darren Wagner, James Legard, Lizzie Swann, Filippo Contesi, Marta Szreder. Photo by Ian Martindale.

2012-13 Doctoral Fellows

Report on the 2012 Doctoral Fellowship finals

Filippo Contesi, Philosophy

  • The Disgusting in Art

Victoria Flood, Medieval Studies

  • The Influence of Political Prophecy in the British Isles, c.1120s-1465

Benjamin Gait, Music

  • Adapting Harry Partch's 'corporeal' aesthetic to a contemporary idiom

Matt Jenkins, Archaeology

  • Urban Myths: Housing and Shopping in York during the Long Eighteenth Century

James Legard, History of Art

  • Vanbrugh, Blenheim Palace, and the Meanings of Baroque Architecture

Mariana Lopez, Theatre, Film and Television

  • Hearing the York Cycle: Acoustics, Staging and Performance

Lizzie Swann, English and Related Literature

  • 'The Apish Art': Taste in England c.1590-1735

Marta Szreder, Language and Linguistic Science

  • Child Phonology as a dynamic system

Darren Wagner, History

  • Sex, Spirits, and Sensibility: Human Generation in British Medicine, Anatomy and Literature, 1660-1780

HRC Doctoral Fellows 2010. L-R: Richard Flockemann, Ellie McCullough, Jenny Hillman, Alex Beaumont, Rein Ove Sikveland. Photo by Paul Shields.

2010-11 Doctoral Fellows

Alexander Beaumont, English and Related Literature

  • Freedom and the City: Urban culture in British fiction after Thatcher

Eleanor McCullough, Medieval Studies

  • Praying the Passion: Laypeople's participation in medieval liturgy and devotion

Jenny Hillman, History

  • Pious Sociability: The devotional culture of the 'elect' in seventeenth-century France, c.1640-1680

Rein Ove Sikveland, Language and Linguistic Science

  • How hearers become speakers: Phonetic, non-vocal and manual resources in Norwegian face-to-face interactions

Richard Flockemann, Philosophy

  • Avowals and the A Priori