The following student projects are in progress:
Started 2015
Contemporary Art and Conflict at IWM Clare Carolin
A review of the worldwide effects and impact of Spanish Influenza Hannah Mawdsley
The IWM and Public Memory of the Second World War Emily Whitaker
Livestock and Landscape: changing husbandry, livestock improvement and landscape enclosure in late and post-medieval England Tamsyn Fraser
Teeth and their use for estimating age at death in British Archaeological Remains Sammy Field
Paving a way for Deaf Heritage Gemma Shannahan
Thick provenance: interactions between European & local collecting practices refracted through the lens of the mainland Southeast Asia material at the BM Gumring Hkangda
Object Journeys; Co-production of collections knowledge and display at a national museum Julia Ankenbrand
Metalwork Deposits in Roman Britain: their social context and implications Rachael Sycamore
Site-Seeing: Postcards of the Middle East and the Visual Construction of Place, 1890s to 1990s Seonaid Rogers
Domesticating the Sumerians: contextualising Woolley’s excavations at Ur (1922–1934) Agnes Tulstrup Henriksen
The impact of sociocultural and environmental change on air quality and respiratory health in the 4th Cataract, Sudan: a bio archaeological perspective. Anna Barrett
Collecting Renaissance decorative arts and the making of the modern museum, 1850 – 1900 Eloisa Donnelly.
Investigating entity-centric methods for information exploration and discovery in big digital archives Philip Webster
Vagrancy and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation Anglophone Caribbean, 1834-1900. Ayshah Johnston
Radical Portraiture 1789-1815 Georgia Haseldine
Portraiture and the British Naval Officer, c.1740–1805 Katherine Gazzard
Chronometry and Chronometers on British Voyages of Exploration, c.1815–c.1872 Emily Akkermans
The History of British Prison Hulks, 1776-1864 Anna McKay
International networks and cosmopolitan science: Geographical Societies and Greenland, c.1880 to 1939′ Peter Martin
Charles Blagden and Banksian Science, 1770-1820 Submitters Reference: Hannah Wills
The Embroidery Trade in 18th-century France Tabitha Baker
John Forster (1812-76) and the Making of Victorian Literature Victoria White
Architectural Models and the Professional Practice of the Architect, 1834–1916 Matthew Wells
Urban Art Forms in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and their Roles in the Making of Diasporic Identities in Communities in London, United Kingdom David Malik
Correcting vision in nineteenth-century England: A social, cultural, medical and material history of spectacles Gemma Almond
Calculating value: using and collecting the tools of early modern mathematics Kevin Tracey
Electronic Music Studios in musical, commercial and international perspective Frances Morgan
Meccano: The nuts and bolts of science Tom Ritchie
Mapping the Historical Growth & Cultural Context of the British Fixed Line Network Dom Weldon
The Daily Herald: Popular desires and managing the production of photographs Rebecca Smith
Railways and Commemoration: Anniversaries, Commemorative Cultures and the Making of Railway History Sophie Vohra
The rise and fall of the Manchester motor industry, 1896-1939 Joshua Butt
Navigating the Canals. Making and Moving Venetian Renaissance Paintings Benedetta Pacini
The Imagined Made Real: the interaction between sculpture and painting in the work of Carlo Crivelli Amanda Hillman
Aspects of manufacture, trade and history of the blue pigment smalt and the relationship between its use in painting and other branches of the arts Matt Tyler
Understanding the Anglo-Saxons: the English and Continental manuscript evidence Rebecca Lawton
Religious music of South Asia: continuity and change in performance and meaning Christian Friedrich Poske
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and constructions of identity in the Anglo-Indian Novel Pauline McGonagle
The Music of Thea Musgrave: an analysis based on the manuscript sources Sasha Valeri Millwood
Maps and the Italian Grand Tour, 1660-ca. 1824 Jeremy Brown
Beyond Bloomsbury: Queer, Art, Race, 1900-40 Eleanor Jones
Forms, Strategies and Contexts of Publishing in Modern and Contemporary Art Practice (1960s to the present day) Karen di Franco
Reporting the Revolution: The Artist as Witness, Critic and Propaganist Sofia Gurevich
Re-displaying the Modern: A History of Artistic Networks and institutions in the Middle East and North Africa 1947-1989 Amina Diab
The Development and Impact of Artistic Acrylic Paints in the United Kingdom Patricia Smithen
Clamp or Draw?: Lime kilns, lime provenance and lime kilns as status symbol in the era of high farming in Scotland Doug Mitchell
Loyal Exchange: the material and visual culture of Jacobite exile, 1716-60. Sarah Heaton
The Drawings by Joseph Beuys in the Collection of Artist Rooms: Cataloguing, Analysis and Contextualisation Andrew Symons
The Dounreay Nuclear Establishment and its impact on the Northern Highlands of Scotland Linda Ross
Started 2014
The impact of participating in British counterinsurgency campaigns, 1945-1977, on the psyche of British armed forces personnel Kathryn Butler
Pacifism and protest: anti-war sentiment in IWM collections Sabine Grimshaw
Voices of the Cold War Jessica Douthwaite
Ploughzone archaeology: interpreting loss of data from metal artefact decay (rates, reasons and conservation management implications Sam Rowe
Westminster on Sea: the political and cultural significance of Osbourne House, Isle of Wight Lee Butcher
English Office Buildings c.1900 – 1939 Jonathan Clarke
Visualising historic time to integrate data across multiple datasets Sam Cottrell
Women in Chancery: An analysis of Chancery as a women’s court of redress in 17th century England Charlotte Garside
Popular Radicalism in the Age of Reform: Government and localities, 1782-1832 Nathan Bend
Scottish Monastic Planning Christian Clarkson
Sustainable rural settlement in the Post-Mediaval Scottish Highlands Kimberley Thompson Noble
Democratising Knowledge: Chambers’ Illustrated Encyclopedia 1860-1892 Rose Roberto
The Gallerist as Publisher: a critical history from 1900 to the present Allan Madden
The production, transmission and reception of engraved and photographic theatrical portraits in the mid-19th century and their contribution to the promoton of celebrity Tessa Kilgarriff
Authenticity and Attribution in the Agnew’s and National Gallery Archives 1855-1932 Alison Clarke
Making a Market for Art: Agnew’s and the National Gallery, 1850-1944 Barbara Pezzini
2.5D and 3D image capture and printing in the cultural heritage file:evaluation of current and developing technologies, potential applications and practical work-flows Xavier Aure
The collection, display and reception of fourteenth and fiftheenth-century Sienese paintings in Britain, 1850-1950 Imogen Tedbury
Optimising preservation in the development and use of museum, library and archival collections through applying approaches from operational management Jessica Stitt
Iron Age metalwork hoards in Britain Rachel Wilkinson
Collecting in East Africa, 1880 to 1940: From the end of exploration to colonisation and settlement Alison Bennett
Human behaviour and adaptation during a period of cultural, social and environmental change: the dental anthropology of the inhabitants of the 4th Cataract, Sudan Rebecca Whiting
The Royal Navy and Colonial Collecting in Australia c. 1820 – 1870 Daniel Simpson
Between Asia and Europe: Mediterranean Networks and island identity on Rhodes,8th to 5th centuries BC Nicholas Salmon
Ringing the changes: the social significance of finger-rings in Roman Britain John Ford
Making the Oceans Visible: Science and Technology on the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) Erika Jones
Instrumentation and the Magnetic Crusade Jenny Bulstrode
Family history, place and diaspora Chandan Mahal
Geography in Dialogue: Print Culture at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) c. 1830 – c.2000 Ben Newman
Scientific Instruments and Expeditionery Science in the Nineteenth Century: Robert Were Fox’s Dip Circle Matthew Goodman
Picturing Mato Gross, 1967-69: Expeditionary Science and Salvage Fieldwork Catarina Fontoura
‘‘Our poor, beautiful and culturally rich country” : the contemporary challenge of Brazilian design Frederico Duarte,
‘“Every man well appareled”: men’s fashion and networks of news in early modern European practice and print Rebecca Unsworth
‘Androgyny and cross-dressing in British pop and performance (c.1967- 1990): a material history’ Lauren Fried
‘Mannequins for the 21st Century’ Paul Sohi
Dollis Hill / Martlesham Heath, Project B: The Research Life of the Established ‘Station’ in the ‘long Cold War’: Analogue and Digital Era Rachel Boon
Conserving doped fabric aircraft: historic origins; heritage outcomes Benjamin Regal
Home on the rails: the design, fitting and decoration of train interiors in Britain c.1920-1955 Alison Rees
Danger – High Voltage: the rise of megavolt electricity supply in 20th century Britain Paul Coleman
Magic Lantern Culture in Britain (1850 – 1920): Exhibition, Reception and Mixed Media Landscapes Phillip Roberts
Women and the ‘railway family’ (1900- 48) Hannah Reeves
Investigating the flow of electrical ideas through the instruments of their discovery, from 1800 – 1850 Charlotte Connelly
Dollis Hill Project C: Research Transplanted and Privatised: Post Office/British Telecom R&D in the Digital and Information Era Jacob Ward
Music, Print, and Culture in the 16th and early 17th Centuries Elizabeth Bennett
The Russian Revolution: New Centenary Perspectives Mike Carey
Stefan Zweig literary manuscripts Pardaad Chamsaz
The Decca Record Company of the 1960s and 1970s: The Legacy of Christopher Raeburn Sally Drew Gannon
The Russian Revolutions and Civil Wars: Journalism and the Media – 1905-1924 Katie McElvanney
Slavery, Independence and Empire: Britain and Latin America c1791-1888 Joe Mulhern
Islamic Pluralism in the Political History of the Central Sahel: A Critical Study of Arabic Sources for West African History Paul Naylor
Canonising British Sculpture: Chantrey and the Chantrey Bequest Amy Harris
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 – 79 Louisa Lee
Technical Narratives:method, purpose, use and value in the representation and analysis of software based art Tom Ensom
The History of Performance at the Tate Acatia Finbow
3 of 4 ‘Creative Communities’ in Art and Design since the 1960s Lessons for Socio-Economic Regeneration in a Globalised World Jonty Lees
British Sporting and Animal Art 1760 – 1840: A Critical History of its Production, Reception, Collection and Display Alison Wright
Started 2013
Black British Poetry in Performance Hannah Silva
British Film Music of the Twentieth Century Annabel Fleming-Brown
Factories of Trade and Empire': Basra, Baghdad and the East India Company c.1620-1822. Peter Good
Literary Translation – Genre, Process and Collaboration Deborah Dawkin
Provincial Shakespeare Performance & Adaptation Hannah Manktelow
Aesthetics of the Everyday in Iron Age East Yorkshire Helen Chittock
Colour in the New Kingdom town: the technology of painted vernacular architecture at Amara West and Tell el-Amarna Kate Fulcher
Religious and political propaganda on Parthian coins of the second century BC Alexandra Magub
Sailing the Monsoon Winds in Miniature: Model boats as evidence for Indian Ocean maritime technologies and cultures Charlotte Dixon
Alabaster Carvings of Medieval England in their Wider Context Lloyd DeBeer
Miniaturisation and Material Culture in Native North America: A study of concept and practice Jack Davy
Religious Heritage in Transition: Sikh Places of Worship in England Clare Canning
Defining the Potential of Ploughzone Lithic Scatters for Interpretation of the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Landscape Lawrence Billington
Application of Covers to Conserve Historic Marble and Metal Monuments Melanie Keable
Colonial cultures and encounters of the First World War Anna Maguire
Noble Frankland and the reinvention of the Imperial War Museum 1960-1982 Rebecca Coll
The Scars of War: London Ruins, Photography and Memory Jane McArthur
Imperial Thames: London, River and Empire, 1660-1830 Hannah Stockton
The Cultural Worlds of African Palm Oil: trade, consumption and museum collecting in Britain and Nigeria, 1850-1900 Julia Binter
Preventive Conservation in Heritage Collections – from Material Degradation to Decision Making Puja Bharadia
The experience of war widows and orphans in northern England during the mid-seventeenth century Helen Worthen
The early National Portrait Gallery and Sir George Scharf: creating an intellectual and professional artistic world, 1770-1909 Elisabeth Heath
Patronage in the Royal Navy 1775-1815 Catherine Beck
Patronage, Acquisition and Display: Contextualising the Art Collections of Longford Castle during the Long Eighteenth Century Amelia Smith
Sir Philip Hendy (1900-1980) director and scholar in Leeds and London 1934-1967: the acquisition and display of art and curatorial practices in ages of austerity
Ana Baeza
Expeditionary Film, Geographical Science and Media Culture Jan Faull
Instruments of Exploration: Technologies of Geographical Enquiry, c.1860–c.1939 Jane Wess
Britain’s Railways in the Great War, 1914-1918 Tanya Kenny