Research Students in the Department of Humanities
![]() Alessandra Abbattista Animal metaphors in the depiction of female avengers: a theory of dramatic characterisation Supervisors: Susanne Greenhalgh Fiona McHardy Susan Deacy Research Group in Classics and History Renaissance and Classical Studies Research Group Research Group in Sex, Gender and Sexuality Interdisciplinary Research Group for Human-Animal Studies |
Anne Arabome (commencing October 2015) 'Bridge over troubled waters’: a critical reevaluation of gender in religion with particular emphasis on the role, identity and mission of African women in Christianity in rhetoric and practice within the Roman Catholic Tradition Supervisors: Tina Beattie David Muir Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
Matthew Bolton ‘There is No Justice – There is Just Us’ Critique or affirmation? The meaning of justice for campaigns against police violence Supervisors: Ted Vallance Nina Power Research Group in Classics and History |
Richard Burke Irish priests as British army chaplains in the Second World War Supervisors: Tina Beattie Katharina Rowold Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
David Chibanda Religion, culture and the rights of the child in Zambia Supervisors: Tina Beattie Lorella Terzi Gregory Kent Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
Andrew Cooke An ecclesiological analysis of the history of official Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality from 1959 to the present day Supervisors: Tina Beattie Tope Omoniyi Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
Juan Mario Díaz Critique of ideologies of political violence: Colombia 1957 - 1991 Supervisors: Mike Edwards Carrie Hamilton Research Groups in Classics and History |
Grainne Doherty An exploration of Pope John Paul II’s theological anthropology in the context of his Theology of the Body and the ‘New Feminism’. In engagement with the perspectives and experiences of some Irish Catholic women Supervisors: Tina Beattie Annabelle Mooney Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
Innocent Ezeonyeasi Children's Rights, the Concept of Childhood and Children's Work in Nigeria Supervisors: Tina Beattie Richard Burgess Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
Sharon Ferguson The Impact of Negating or Transcending Gender on our relationship with a Trinitarian God and the Church Supervisors: Tina Beattie Christopher Stephens Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
![]() Lindsay Hinsley Religious Belief, Practice and Domesticity: The experience of Elite Women in Eighteenth Century England Supervisors: Meg Arnot Sara Pennell Research Group in Classics and History |
![]() Dennis Huggins Memorialisation of the second Boer War in British and Irish Public and Private Schools and its implications for WWI remembrance Supervisors: Meg Arrnot John Tosh Research Group in Classics and History |
Research Group in Classics and History; Research Group in Sex, Gender and Sexuality |
Mike Edwards Fiona McHardy Susan Deacy Research Group in Classics and History |
![]() Nick Mayhew-Smith: Nature rituals of the early medieval church in Britain: Christian cosmology and the conversion of the British landscape from Ninian to Bede Supervisors: Tina Beattie Charlotte Behr Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
Jim McKinney Wandsworth community Empowerment Network: Unlocking the Iron Cage Supervisors: Neil MacDonald Julian Gotobed Richard Burgess Research Group in Ministerial Theology |
Sally Osborn: The Role of Domestic Knowledge in an Era of Professionalisation: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Medical Recipe Collections Supervisors: Ted Vallance Sara Pennell Michael Brown Research Groups in Classics and History Research Group in Medical Humanities |
Clement Okusi Church Growth in an urban black Pentecostal church in the UK Supervisors: Neil MacDonald Julian Gotobed Richard Burgess Research Group in Ministerial Theology |
![]() Alison Clare Pedley Maternal child murder, insanity and the law, c.1830-1890 Supervisors: Meg Arnot Michael Brown Research Groups in Classics and History |
![]() Murray Robertson: Schoolwork - labours of emotion and reproduction in the UK primary classroom Supervisors: Penny Jane Burke Marie-Pierre Moreau Nina Power |
Marvin Christopher Sanguinetti A critical inquiry of trinitarian orthodoxy in the context of oneness pentecostal theologies Supervisors: Neil MacDonald Richard Burgess |
Ruth Selman Poverty and the Hearth Tax in Restoration, Essex AHRC supported PhD candidate Supervisor: Andrew Wareham Centre for Hearth Tax Research |
Robert Spivey Supervisors: Jenny Bunker Carrie Hamilton |
Geoff Stone Sir William Hamilton: Networks and Knowledge’ Supervisor: Rosemary Barrow Michael Brown Research Groups in Classics and History |
Phillip Taliadoros In search of dialogue beyond stigmatisation: an exploration of popular preaching and theology in Uganda, in the context of the personal narratives of people living with HIV/AIDS and the theological justifications of those who stigmatise them Supervisors: Tina Beattie Neil MacDonald Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing |
![]() J. Daniel Taylor The problem of freedom, servitude and collective desire in Spinoza Supervisors: Neil MacDonald Nina Power Jenny Bunker |
![]() Samuel Thomas A Comparative Study of First-and Second-Generation Homiletic Practice in the New Testament Church of God (UK) Supervisors: Mark Garner Andrew Rogers Research Group in Ministerial Theology |
![]() Mary Witts Unfolding the Text through Drama: an imaginative incarnational Hermeuneutic for orally-focused Christian Communities Supervisors: Tina Beattie Andrew Rpgers Josh Abrams Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion Society and Human Flourishing Research Group in Ministerial Theology |