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Theses in progress

This section covers PhD, MPhil and MA by Research.

PhD

  Christina Alexandrou
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Cross-cultural political campaign techniques'
Director of Studies: Professor Brian Brivati
Second Supervisor: Dr. Jeremy Nuttall
  Ann Andrews
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'The Dublin nationalist press and the development of Irish nationalism, 1842-67'
Director of Studies: Dr. Sally Warwick-Haller
Second Supervisor: Professor Peter Beck
  Isobel Brooks
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Sacrificing power: egoism, altruism and authority in the French Revolution'
Director of Studies: Dr. Marisa Linton
Second Supervisor: Professor John Davis
  Richard Clarke
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'The politics of the duke d'Orleans, 1787-1790'
Director of Studies: Dr. Marisa Linton
Second Supervisors: Dr. Mike Hawkins & Professor Peter Beck
  Bridget Duckenfield
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'The Abolition of Celibacy at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, c.a. 1840-1880'
Director of Studies: Professor John Davis
Second Supervisors: Professor Gail Cunningham & Dr. Mike Hawkins
  Audrey Giles
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Railway influence in Kingston upon Thames: paternalism, "welfarism", and nineteenth century society, 1838-1912'
Director of Studies: Dr. Chris French
Second Supervisor: Dr. Phil Drummond-Thompson
  Helen Goepel
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Children and poverty in the Kingston-upon-Thames Poor Law Union, 1834-1901'
Director of Studies: Dr. Chris French
Second Supervisors: Dr. John Stuart & Professor Keith Grieves
  Michael Herron
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'The history of the histories of the Armenian genocide'
Director of Studies: Professor Brian Brivati
Second Supervisors: Professor John Davis & Professor Philip Spencer
  Jonathan Hoare
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'The evolution of the documentary film during the 1920s and early 1930s'
Director of Studies: Gerry Turvey
Second Supervisors: Dr. Simon Brown, Professor Peter Beck
  Nicholas Jones
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'An assessment of the impact of initial news reporting in framing collective understanding of three case studies of genocide: the Soviet Union; Cambodia; and Darfur'
Director of Studies: Professor Brian Brivati
Second Supervisors: Professor John Davis & Professor Philip Spencer
  Pamela Reading
Year completed: In progress
Project: '"Reluctant reformers"?: Politics and society in Kingston upon Thames, 1830-1900'
Director of Studies: Dr. Chris French
Second Supervisors: Dr. Andrea Tanner & Professor John Davis
  Gerald Wasley
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Civil Defence in Kingston and district during and after the Second World War'
Director of Studies: Professor Keith Grieves
Second Supervisor: Dr. Chris French
  David Woodward
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Suburban development in five neighbouring south London parishes in the middle decades of the 19th century'
Director of Studies: Dr. Chris French
Second Supervisor: Professor Keith Grieves

MA by Research

  Lucy Clarke
Year completed: In progress
Project: 'Louis XIV: his patronage, image and politics'
Director of Studies: Dr. Marisa Linton
Second Supervisor: Dr. Mike Hawkins
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