Doctoral researchers in history In 'Doctoral researcher profiles' Doctoral researcher profilesKatherine WallaceSteven DieterTabitha Lambert-Bramwell The Department of History maintains a thriving and diverse postgraduate community. A broad range of research opportunities are available to our students. Profiles of some of our doctoral researchers and information on their research topics are shown below. Thomas Allen Doctoral researcher PhD title: Space, Segmentation and Civic & Regional Identity in Edwardian Birmingham Supervisor: Professor Matthew Houlbrook and Professor Nicholas CrowsonPhD History Howard Barlow Doctoral researcher PhD title: Catholic Identities, Anti-Catholicism and Confessional Cooperation: Cheshire during the Long Reformation 1570-1750 Supervisor: Professor Richard Cust and Dr Jonathan WillisPhD History Chloe Helen Bent Doctoral researcher PhD title: Out of Many, One People: A History of Treasure Beach Supervisor: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Kate Skinner and Dr Nathan CardonPhD History Pete Bounous Doctoral researcher PhD title: Reasons to Remember: Commemorating the Great and the Good in Late Victorian Birmingham Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick PhD History Robert Brown Doctoral researcher PhD title: Social Investigation and Housing Reform 1884 – 1924: The Campaigns for Municipal House Building in Oxford and Birmingham Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Nicholas Crowson PhD History David Christie Doctoral researcher PhD title: ‘A Hand Up, not a Hand Out’ – Homelessness under the Labour Governments 1997-2010Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Crowson and Dr Chris MooresPhD History Giles Connolly Doctoral researcher PhD title: From Living Memory to Recent Past: Recording Thomas Becket's Life in the Twelfth and Thirteenth CenturiesSupervisor: Simon Yarrow and William PurkisPhD History Adrian Courtenay Doctoral researcher PhD title: A case study of the Cheltenham Branch of the League of Nations Union Supervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Professor Nicholas CrowsonPhD History Graham Cox Doctoral researcher PhD title: From the Great Migration to the Great War: The Re-Creation of a Polish State and the Question of CausalitySupervisors: Dr Klaus Richter, Dr Simon Jackson and Dr Thomas BrodiePhD History Karen Davies Doctoral researcher PhD title: A Key in the Lock: Opening the History of Lock Making in Willenhall 1792-1970 Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Dr Kate SmithPhD History Anna Dearden Doctoral researcher PhD title: Britons dislocated: the effects of mobility and dislocation on the navigation and expression of the imperial self, c. 1757-1833 Supervisor: Dr Kate Smith and Professor Karen HarveyPhD History Rose Debenham Doctoral researcher PhD title: Self-Fashioning at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, 1981-2000 Supervisors: Dr Chris Moores and Dr Zoe Thomas PhD Modern History Steven Dieter Doctoral researcher PhD title: Five Days in May, and Beyond: Canada, Britain, and the defence of the Caribbean in the Second World War Supervisor: Dr Steve Hewitt and Dr Steven MorewoodPhD History Bethan Downs Doctoral researcher PhD title: 'Here and wet for you!': Sadomasochist lesbian feminism in Britain, 1980-2000Supervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Professor Lisa DowningPhD History Sara Downs Doctoral researcher PhD title: The status and economic agency of women landholders in the lordships of Ellesmere and Whitchurch, 1760-1860 Supervisors:Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Karen Harvey PhD History Mark Eccleston Doctoral researcher PhD title: A history of the St Martin's Guild: examining the importance and influence of Birmingham's bell ringing tradition from 1755 Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Willis and Dr Malcolm DickPhD History Jared Feuerstein Doctoral researcher PhD title: Makkabäer: Jewish German and Austro-Hungarian Officers in the First World WarSupervisors: Dr Jonathan Gumz and Dr Klaus RichterPhD History Richard Fieldhouse Doctoral researcher PhD title: German Trade Unions and Jean Monnet's "Action Committee for the United States of Europe" 1955 - 1975Supervisors: Dr Armin Grünbacher and Professor Sabine LeePhD History Erik Flint Doctoral researcher PhD title: In the Shadow of the Mountain: Fort Lewis, Vietnam, and the All-Volunteer Army 1962-1975 Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Gumz PhD Modern History Jacob Fredrickson Doctoral researcher PhD title: Crimes of Passion: Law, Emotions and Sexuality in early Twentieth Century BritainSupervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Dr Chris MooresPhD History Frank Gerards Doctoral researcher PhD title: Luftwaffe Pilot training in WW IISupervisors: Dr Armin Grünbacher and Dr Jonathan BoffPhD History Phoebe Gill Doctoral researcher PhD title: Sexual Knowledge and Publishing in Britain and Ireland, 1910s-1960sSupervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Dr Mo MoultonPhD History Owen Grey Doctoral researcher PhD title: From Entente to Axis: Romania and the Crisis of EuropeSupervisor: Dr Klaus Richter and Dr Jonathan GumzPhD History Alfie Hancox Doctoral researcher PhD title: Strained Solidarities: Black Power and the British Left, 1960–80Supervisors: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Sarah Kenny and Dr John Munro PhD History Steve Hewett Doctoral Researcher PhD title: ‘For all our people’ – an examination of the Free Library Movement in Birmingham and its impact on the cultural life of the town, 1851 – 1914. Supervisors: Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Ewan Fernie Ian Jenkins Doctoral researcher PhD title: The emergence of US Counter Terrorism policy Post-Watergate 1975-1989 Supervisor: Dr Steve Hewitt PhD Modern History Nathan Jopling Doctoral researcher PhD title: Enemies of All Mankind? Piracy, Criminality, and Local Communities in English Greater Caribbean Region (1655-1730)Supervisors: Dr Tom Cutterham and Dr Noah MillstonePhD History James Kawalek Doctoral researcher PhD title: Historical Writing and Europeanisation in Twelfth-Century Compostela Supervisor: Dr William Purkis and Prof Aengus WardPhD History Tabitha Lambert-Bramwell Doctoral researcher PhD title: Domestic Servants, Professionalisation and the Women's Emancipation Movement, 1870-1914Supervisor: Dr Zoë Thomas and Dr Laura Schwartz (University of Warwick)PhD History Mark Lewis Doctoral researcher PhD title: Everyday Giving and Exchange in Early Modern England Supervisor: Dr Tara Hamling and Dr Kate SmithPhD History Amy Luck Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Heritage Sites and WellbeingSupervisor: Dr Faye Sayer and Dr Ioanna KatapidiPhD History Liam McLeod Doctoral researcher PhD title: Rebuilding Jerusalem: Receiving Ideas of the Holy City in the Early Medieval West Supervisor: Dr William Purkis and Dr Daniel ReynoldsPhD History Elaine Mitchell Doctoral researcher PhD title: 'A handsome flower garden about half an acre, square': urban gardens in the east midlands' manufacturing towns of the 18th century Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick PhD History Agni Agathi Papamichael Doctoral researcher PhD title: Byzantium in Scandinavian Sources, ca. 1000-1400 Supervisor: Dr Chris Callow (University of Birmingham) and Professor Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham)PhD History Beth Parkes Doctoral researcher PhD title: Skin Deep: Beauty and Skin Colour in the Black Atlantic, 1960-85 Supervisor: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Sadiah Qureshi and Dr Michell ChresfieldPhD History Justine Pick Doctoral Researcher PhD Title: The Process of Sanitary Improvement: Theory, Practice and Impact in Birmingham 1842-1911Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Dr Matt ColePhd History Chris Rouse Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Intellectual Colonisation of Asia in European Geographical Discourse, 1200-1500 Supervisors: Professor Naomi Standen and Dr Margaret Small PhD Modern History Andrew Searle Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Is Anybody Listening? Advocacy by Human Rights activists in Palestine between 1967-2006 and the politics of Human Rights in the UK. Supervisors: Dr Chris Moores, Dr Simon Jackson and Professor Nicholas CrowsonPhD History Laura Sefton Doctoral researcher PhD title: Learning to Consume: Childhood, Citizenship, and the Reproduction of Capitalism Supervisor: Professor Matthew Hilton and Professor Matt Houlbrook PhD History Marta Starostina Doctoral researcher PhD title: The All-Union Join-Stock Company “Intourist” in the 20th cet. BalticsSupervisors: Dr Klaus Richter and Dr Jonathan GumzPhD History Peter Stephenson Doctoral researcher PhD title: Rulers of Jerusalem: Kingship, Power and Authority in the 12th Century Latin EastSupervisor: Professor William Purkis and Dr James DohertyPhD History Ellie Sutton Doctoral researcher PhD title: Female Identity and the Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballad Supervisors: Professor Karen Harvey and Dr Tara HamlingPhD History Elizabeth Thomson Doctoral researcher PhD title: The brickmaking Industry of the Black Country Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Dr Zoe Thomas PhD Modern History Yasmin Vetter Doctoral researcher PhD title: From Exile to Establishment: The Influence of Transnational Scholarly Networks on the Elizabethan Church. Supervisor: Professor Elaine Fulton and Dr Jonathan WillisPhD History Katherine Wallace PhD title: Feminist and queer women's experiences in social and leisure spaces in 1970s and 1980s Britain Supervisors: Professor Mo Moulton and Dr Chris Moores History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Kimberly Webb Doctoral researcher PhD title: Most Highly Favoured Ladies: Italian & English Noblewomen and Saints in Times of Crisis Supervisors: Dr Simon Yarrow and Dr Katharine Sykes PhD History Lorraine Wood Doctoral researcher PhD title: Pre-school childcare in Birmingham 1939-1945 Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick PhD History Thomas Wood Doctoral researcher PhD title: Serpents and dragons in early modern German religious cultureSupervisors: Professor Elaine Fulton and Dr Simone Laqua-O'DonnellPhD History Tomas Yonge Doctoral researcher PhD title: Britain’s place in a changing world: the Nimrod procurement and the Wilson government 1964-65 Supervisor: Dr Armin Grünbacher, Dr Jonathan Boff PhD History
Thomas Allen Doctoral researcher PhD title: Space, Segmentation and Civic & Regional Identity in Edwardian Birmingham Supervisor: Professor Matthew Houlbrook and Professor Nicholas CrowsonPhD History
Howard Barlow Doctoral researcher PhD title: Catholic Identities, Anti-Catholicism and Confessional Cooperation: Cheshire during the Long Reformation 1570-1750 Supervisor: Professor Richard Cust and Dr Jonathan WillisPhD History
Chloe Helen Bent Doctoral researcher PhD title: Out of Many, One People: A History of Treasure Beach Supervisor: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Kate Skinner and Dr Nathan CardonPhD History
Pete Bounous Doctoral researcher PhD title: Reasons to Remember: Commemorating the Great and the Good in Late Victorian Birmingham Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick PhD History
Robert Brown Doctoral researcher PhD title: Social Investigation and Housing Reform 1884 – 1924: The Campaigns for Municipal House Building in Oxford and Birmingham Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Nicholas Crowson PhD History
David Christie Doctoral researcher PhD title: ‘A Hand Up, not a Hand Out’ – Homelessness under the Labour Governments 1997-2010Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Crowson and Dr Chris MooresPhD History
Giles Connolly Doctoral researcher PhD title: From Living Memory to Recent Past: Recording Thomas Becket's Life in the Twelfth and Thirteenth CenturiesSupervisor: Simon Yarrow and William PurkisPhD History
Adrian Courtenay Doctoral researcher PhD title: A case study of the Cheltenham Branch of the League of Nations Union Supervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Professor Nicholas CrowsonPhD History
Graham Cox Doctoral researcher PhD title: From the Great Migration to the Great War: The Re-Creation of a Polish State and the Question of CausalitySupervisors: Dr Klaus Richter, Dr Simon Jackson and Dr Thomas BrodiePhD History
Karen Davies Doctoral researcher PhD title: A Key in the Lock: Opening the History of Lock Making in Willenhall 1792-1970 Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Dr Kate SmithPhD History
Anna Dearden Doctoral researcher PhD title: Britons dislocated: the effects of mobility and dislocation on the navigation and expression of the imperial self, c. 1757-1833 Supervisor: Dr Kate Smith and Professor Karen HarveyPhD History
Rose Debenham Doctoral researcher PhD title: Self-Fashioning at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, 1981-2000 Supervisors: Dr Chris Moores and Dr Zoe Thomas PhD Modern History
Steven Dieter Doctoral researcher PhD title: Five Days in May, and Beyond: Canada, Britain, and the defence of the Caribbean in the Second World War Supervisor: Dr Steve Hewitt and Dr Steven MorewoodPhD History
Bethan Downs Doctoral researcher PhD title: 'Here and wet for you!': Sadomasochist lesbian feminism in Britain, 1980-2000Supervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Professor Lisa DowningPhD History
Sara Downs Doctoral researcher PhD title: The status and economic agency of women landholders in the lordships of Ellesmere and Whitchurch, 1760-1860 Supervisors:Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Karen Harvey PhD History
Mark Eccleston Doctoral researcher PhD title: A history of the St Martin's Guild: examining the importance and influence of Birmingham's bell ringing tradition from 1755 Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Willis and Dr Malcolm DickPhD History
Jared Feuerstein Doctoral researcher PhD title: Makkabäer: Jewish German and Austro-Hungarian Officers in the First World WarSupervisors: Dr Jonathan Gumz and Dr Klaus RichterPhD History
Richard Fieldhouse Doctoral researcher PhD title: German Trade Unions and Jean Monnet's "Action Committee for the United States of Europe" 1955 - 1975Supervisors: Dr Armin Grünbacher and Professor Sabine LeePhD History
Erik Flint Doctoral researcher PhD title: In the Shadow of the Mountain: Fort Lewis, Vietnam, and the All-Volunteer Army 1962-1975 Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Gumz PhD Modern History
Jacob Fredrickson Doctoral researcher PhD title: Crimes of Passion: Law, Emotions and Sexuality in early Twentieth Century BritainSupervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Dr Chris MooresPhD History
Frank Gerards Doctoral researcher PhD title: Luftwaffe Pilot training in WW IISupervisors: Dr Armin Grünbacher and Dr Jonathan BoffPhD History
Phoebe Gill Doctoral researcher PhD title: Sexual Knowledge and Publishing in Britain and Ireland, 1910s-1960sSupervisor: Professor Matt Houlbrook and Dr Mo MoultonPhD History
Owen Grey Doctoral researcher PhD title: From Entente to Axis: Romania and the Crisis of EuropeSupervisor: Dr Klaus Richter and Dr Jonathan GumzPhD History
Alfie Hancox Doctoral researcher PhD title: Strained Solidarities: Black Power and the British Left, 1960–80Supervisors: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Sarah Kenny and Dr John Munro PhD History
Steve Hewett Doctoral Researcher PhD title: ‘For all our people’ – an examination of the Free Library Movement in Birmingham and its impact on the cultural life of the town, 1851 – 1914. Supervisors: Dr Malcolm Dick and Professor Ewan Fernie
Ian Jenkins Doctoral researcher PhD title: The emergence of US Counter Terrorism policy Post-Watergate 1975-1989 Supervisor: Dr Steve Hewitt PhD Modern History
Nathan Jopling Doctoral researcher PhD title: Enemies of All Mankind? Piracy, Criminality, and Local Communities in English Greater Caribbean Region (1655-1730)Supervisors: Dr Tom Cutterham and Dr Noah MillstonePhD History
James Kawalek Doctoral researcher PhD title: Historical Writing and Europeanisation in Twelfth-Century Compostela Supervisor: Dr William Purkis and Prof Aengus WardPhD History
Tabitha Lambert-Bramwell Doctoral researcher PhD title: Domestic Servants, Professionalisation and the Women's Emancipation Movement, 1870-1914Supervisor: Dr Zoë Thomas and Dr Laura Schwartz (University of Warwick)PhD History
Mark Lewis Doctoral researcher PhD title: Everyday Giving and Exchange in Early Modern England Supervisor: Dr Tara Hamling and Dr Kate SmithPhD History
Amy Luck Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Heritage Sites and WellbeingSupervisor: Dr Faye Sayer and Dr Ioanna KatapidiPhD History
Liam McLeod Doctoral researcher PhD title: Rebuilding Jerusalem: Receiving Ideas of the Holy City in the Early Medieval West Supervisor: Dr William Purkis and Dr Daniel ReynoldsPhD History
Elaine Mitchell Doctoral researcher PhD title: 'A handsome flower garden about half an acre, square': urban gardens in the east midlands' manufacturing towns of the 18th century Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick PhD History
Agni Agathi Papamichael Doctoral researcher PhD title: Byzantium in Scandinavian Sources, ca. 1000-1400 Supervisor: Dr Chris Callow (University of Birmingham) and Professor Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham)PhD History
Beth Parkes Doctoral researcher PhD title: Skin Deep: Beauty and Skin Colour in the Black Atlantic, 1960-85 Supervisor: Professor Gavin Schaffer, Dr Sadiah Qureshi and Dr Michell ChresfieldPhD History
Justine Pick Doctoral Researcher PhD Title: The Process of Sanitary Improvement: Theory, Practice and Impact in Birmingham 1842-1911Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Dr Matt ColePhd History
Chris Rouse Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Intellectual Colonisation of Asia in European Geographical Discourse, 1200-1500 Supervisors: Professor Naomi Standen and Dr Margaret Small PhD Modern History
Andrew Searle Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Is Anybody Listening? Advocacy by Human Rights activists in Palestine between 1967-2006 and the politics of Human Rights in the UK. Supervisors: Dr Chris Moores, Dr Simon Jackson and Professor Nicholas CrowsonPhD History
Laura Sefton Doctoral researcher PhD title: Learning to Consume: Childhood, Citizenship, and the Reproduction of Capitalism Supervisor: Professor Matthew Hilton and Professor Matt Houlbrook PhD History
Marta Starostina Doctoral researcher PhD title: The All-Union Join-Stock Company “Intourist” in the 20th cet. BalticsSupervisors: Dr Klaus Richter and Dr Jonathan GumzPhD History
Peter Stephenson Doctoral researcher PhD title: Rulers of Jerusalem: Kingship, Power and Authority in the 12th Century Latin EastSupervisor: Professor William Purkis and Dr James DohertyPhD History
Ellie Sutton Doctoral researcher PhD title: Female Identity and the Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballad Supervisors: Professor Karen Harvey and Dr Tara HamlingPhD History
Elizabeth Thomson Doctoral researcher PhD title: The brickmaking Industry of the Black Country Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick and Dr Zoe Thomas PhD Modern History
Yasmin Vetter Doctoral researcher PhD title: From Exile to Establishment: The Influence of Transnational Scholarly Networks on the Elizabethan Church. Supervisor: Professor Elaine Fulton and Dr Jonathan WillisPhD History
Katherine Wallace PhD title: Feminist and queer women's experiences in social and leisure spaces in 1970s and 1980s Britain Supervisors: Professor Mo Moulton and Dr Chris Moores History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Kimberly Webb Doctoral researcher PhD title: Most Highly Favoured Ladies: Italian & English Noblewomen and Saints in Times of Crisis Supervisors: Dr Simon Yarrow and Dr Katharine Sykes PhD History
Lorraine Wood Doctoral researcher PhD title: Pre-school childcare in Birmingham 1939-1945 Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Dick PhD History
Thomas Wood Doctoral researcher PhD title: Serpents and dragons in early modern German religious cultureSupervisors: Professor Elaine Fulton and Dr Simone Laqua-O'DonnellPhD History
Tomas Yonge Doctoral researcher PhD title: Britain’s place in a changing world: the Nimrod procurement and the Wilson government 1964-65 Supervisor: Dr Armin Grünbacher, Dr Jonathan Boff PhD History