Current postgraduate research in Archaeology and Anthropology

To make an informal enquiry about graduate study in archaeology or anthropology at Bristol, send an email to alison.johnston@bristol.ac.uk or contact the Graduate Tutor for Archaeology and Anthropology - Dr Alistair Pike (alistair.pike@bristol.ac.uk)

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Human Origins and Bioarchaeology

Sarah Gosling	sarah.gosling@bris.ac.uk	MPhil	Predicting mechanical spinal loading in an archaeological skeletal population
Heidi Dawson	arhsd@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The Social Status of Children in the Medieval Period: an Osteoarchaeological approach
Joanna Higgins	johiggins67@google.com	MPhil	Early Bronze Age mortuary variability in southern Britain: osteological evidence for the nature of funerary rituals
Hylke de Jong	H.N.dejong@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Identifying dietary change
Sharon Redrobe	sredrobe@bristolzoo.org.uk	MLitt	Lemur/Primate growth and development  and its implications for evolution and further conservation of the species
Laurie Winch	lauren.winch@gmail.com	MLitt	The role and relevance of rock art to hunter-gatherer culture and society: a comparative exploration of a unique Thai dataset and studies of pre-existing corpora
Annsofie Witkin	avwitkin@yahoo.co.uk	PhD	Osteology of post-medieval population

European, Indian and African History and Archaeology

Ruman Bannerjee	deccanruman@gmail.com	MLitt	Rock Art (India) as the medium of Social Change
Maxime Brami		MLitt	Hacilar and the spread of framing to southeast Europe: a reassessment
Matthew Butler	matthew.butler8@btinternet.com	MLitt	Landscapes of Dissent
Heidi Da Costa Martins	martinshaide@gmail.com	MLitt	The Neolithic in the Great Mediterranean context
Jeffrey Davies	arxjd@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Societal change in Wessex
Paul Driscoll	pd0843@bris.ac.uk	PhD	The Archaeology of Jersey
Chris Kerns	arxck@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Development of socio-political relationships in the Neolithic
Neil Morris	neilmorris1980@hotmail.com	MPhil	Material Culture of the Celtic West in the Post-Roman Period
John Perkins	john.perkins@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Coins on the Swahili coast, 800-1500 CE
Jim Pimpernell	jim.pimpernell@headspring.co.uk	MLitt	The use of GIS and Historical Data (Berkeley Estate)
Erendira Quintana Morales	areqm@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Swahili settlement archaeology, urban development, trading cultures, the spread of Islam in Africa
Tony Roberts		MLitt	Evidence of Viking Occupation of the SW of England
Bob Smisson	smisson@supanet.com	MLitt	Late Antiquity in Somerset
Lucija Soberl	lucija.soberl@gmail.com	PhD	Organic Residue Analysis of British Bronze Burial Vessels
Patrick Tierney	chipperlane@btinternet.com	MPhil	Edward Jenner: with particular reference to 'The Chantry' his home in Berkeley
Paul Tubb	arpct@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	What was the extent and nature of prehistoric activity in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, from the end of the Mesolithic to the Late Iron Age?
Hege Usborne	hege@westleyfarm.co.uk	MLitt	Exploring networks of exchange and social interaction in Neolithic Wessex through isotopic analysis of domesticated animal bones and teeth
Katharine Walker	kw3934@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Stone tools and identity: investigating the roles that movement and the exchange of stone and flint objects played in identity formation during the British Neolithic
Jacqueline Wilson	lansdownplace@aol.com	PhD	Becoming Irish: The Materiality of Transcultural Identities in the Later Irish Iron Age

Mediterranean Archaeology

Andrew Brown	andrew.brown@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Settlement patterns in the Troad from the Neolithic to the Archaic period
Nektarios Karadimas	nekkaradimas@yahoo.gr	PhD	Aegean Chronology
Sara Karatas	sarakaratas@aol.com	MLitt	Sanctuaries of Demeter in Eastern Greece
Petros Kounouklas	pkounouclas@hotmail.com	PhD	The Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age coastal settlement of Kynos: architecture, spatial organisation and function
Natalia Pascalidis	nataliapascalidis@hotmail.com	PhD	Cultural Transference of Isis and Sarapis

Historical Archaeology, Conflict Archaeology and Heritage Studies

Deborah Atwood	debatwood@gmail.com	MLitt	Examination of Confinement Art Created in Bermuda
Susie Callow	sc7892@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	The Archaeology of Bone Objects and Iconography as Material Culture of Twentieth Century Conflict
Tamsin Chambers	tc8287@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The Garden Archaeology of Trees in English Designed Landscapes
Ros Delany	r.j.delany@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The Landscape Archaeology of the Game Larder
James Dixon	jimd_bsamd@yahoo.co.uk	MLitt	Art and Archaeology in the Context of Urban Renewal
Emily Glass	emilyglass@yahoo.com	MLitt	The Materialities of communist defence in C20th Albanian Conflict Landscape
Mary Gray	grazies@btinternet.com	MPhil	Changing Spaces for Mental Illness in the Context of Mental Hospital Closure
Helen MacQuarrie	arhcm@bristol.ac.uk	MPhil	Material Culture of a 19th century slave cemetery
Elaine Massung	elainemassung@mail.com	PhD	Visitor Interaction with Museums and Heritage Sites
Vanda Morton	vanda.morton@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The Historical Archaeology of Baptist Mills, Bristol in International Perspective
Cassie Newland	cassienewland@yahoo.co.uk	PhD	Archaeologies of Rivalry: Telecommunications Technologies and the Administration of the British Empire (1860-1930).[more details]
Jeremy Northover	peter.northover@materials.ox.ac.uk	PhD	The history and archaeology of the Swyre Valley
Phil Rowe	philip.R.Rowe@Bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	An Archaeological Landscape investigation examining the defensive measures constructed to protect Bristol and its immediate hinterland from the threatened German Invasion of 1940
John Scott	aryjs@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Conflict Archaeology along the Hejaz Railroad between Ma'an and Mudawara, Jordan
Jane Seiter	janeseiter@yahoo.com	PhD	Historical Archaeology in St Lucia, eastern Caribbean
Angela Smith	ange752@berkeley.edu	MPhil	Bridging the Gap: The Use of Internet and Digital Technologies to Link Archaeologists and the Public. [more details]
Aisling Tierney	aislingtierney@gmail.com	MLitt	The Irish Hell-fire Clubs: Historical Archaeology of the C18th
John Winterburn	john.winterburn@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Conflict Landscapes of South Jordan

Maritime Archaeology

William Haines	angela.haines@virgin.net	MLitt	Trade in Iron Age and Roman Britain
Michael Kent	armdk@bris.ac.uk	PhD	The Historical Archaeology of Maritime defences in the British Virgin Islands
Kimberley Monk	k.monk@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The Archaeology of 19th Century Ships
Louisa Pittman	lwpittman@mac.com	MLitt	The evolution of the fore-and-aft rig in European shipping of the 17th and 18th centuries
David Sivier	ws007e7895@blueyonder.co.uk	MLitt	The Development of Bridgwater 1200-1741

Social Anthropology

Steve Adam	skadam@ix.netcom.com	PhD	Cultural Anthropology - the Tigua
Konstantinos Ardavanis	arxka@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Private Greek-american Parochial Schools and anti-Turkish sentiment amongst Greek-American communities in New York
MacKenzie Paige Belt	mp.belt@hotmail.com	PhD	Sri Lankan immigrants in Cyprus
Mark Burchell	m.burchell@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Army Life
Costas Constantinou	c.constantinou@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Birth Beliefs and Practices in Cyprus
Fabian Graham	4fabian@gmail.com	MLitt	A crpss-national analysis of Chinese popular religion in Taiwan and Singapore
Yueh-Po Huang	arxyh@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	A comparative study of the Tienry religion
Munadi Ishaq	munadi_ishak@yahoo.com	MLitt	Implementation of Syari'ah Law in Aceh, Indonesia and its influence on local religious and cultural identities
Alexis Karkotis	alexis.karkotis@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Identity and Tradition among teh Naso People of the Teribe River, Panama
Sam Lewis	madeleine.slewis@ukonline.co.uk	MLitt	Exploring Semi-Nomadic Lifestyles in Contemporary Britain
Nikitas Palantzas	nikitas.palantzas@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Views of Islam and Europe from Istanbul
Nicos Philippou	philippou.n@intercollege.ac.cy	PhD	Photographic representation of Cyprus under British colonial rule
Sandra Lopez-Rocha	s.lopezrocha@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Identity, Adaptation and Community Making Among Chileans in England
Nicoletta Paphitou	npaphitou@cto.org.cy	PhD	Cultural Tourism in Cyprus
Emily Pierini	ep7265@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Narrators of the afterlife:spirit membership in the Brazilian religion of the Vale do Amanhecer
Jitka Soukopova	soukopka@hotmail.com	PhD	Rock art in the Sahara Desert
Caroline Tee	caroline_tee@hotmail.co.uk	PhD	The Turkish Alevi community through the medium of its poetic tradition

Garden and Architectural History

Gillian Barker	g.m.barker@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	'A Well of Living Waters' - Patterns of unity and diversity in gardens of the Islamic world from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries and their reflections in later garden design.
Caroline Dalton	cd5545@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	'Where Nature borrows dress from Vanbrook's Art' - Sir John Vanbrugh as Landscape Architect
Kate Felus	haxkf@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Garden Buildings in England, 1720-1820 - Architectural Form and Social Function
Janice Gooch	j.gooch@mcbainscooper.com	MLitt	Return from Exile  - the influence of the returning nobility on the design and construction of domestic building following the Restoration (c1660 - 1688)
Elain Harwood	haxeh@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	'Reviving a great sector of London to the benefit of the community' - the London County Council's Rebuilding of the South Bank as a Cultural Quarter, 1945-76
Helen Lawrence	hl9565@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Thomas Archer (c 1668-1743)
Ben Lennon	arxbl@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The Landscape History of Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
Laura Mayer	lm9717@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	Arbiters of Taste: Landscaping, Architecture and Design - The Society of Dilettanti and British Patronage (1736-1789)
Wim Oers	arwmgo@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Schonenberg, a Palace in an Enlightened Europe
Jean Reader	jean.reader@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The role of women in the history of the gardens of south and west Wales between 1750 and 1850
Nancy Sheridan	nancy.sheridan@bristol.ac.uk	MLitt	Art for Conservation's Sake
Susan Wilson	susan.wilson@bristol.ac.uk	PhD	The historical and theoretical roots of a Swiss garden cottage
Martin Wood	m.wood@virgin.net	MPhil	The rise of the 'Picturesque' placemaking in Northern Europe