Students

Current students

Name	Research area	Email
Ross Brooks	Queer Science in Britain, c.1900–1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication	ross.brooks-2017@brookes.ac.uk
Angela Buckley	The Science of Sleuthing: The Evolution of Detective Practice in English Regional Cities, 1838–1914	angela.buckley-2018@brookes.ac.uk
Fabien Dézèque	Can we ever be satisfied? Well-being treadmills and the evolution of happiness	18094241@brookes.ac.uk
Thomas Dobson	Training to Teach: Westminster College and the development of Higher Education in the 20th century	tdobson@brookes.ac.uk
Katerina Kosta	UK university sustainability reports: an exploratory analysis of an emerging practice	katerina.kosta-2016@brookes.ac.uk
Cosmin Koszor-Codrea	‘The Word of Science’: The Popularization of Darwinism in Romania, 1860–1918	cosmin.koszor.codrea-2015@brookes.ac.uk
Louise Roy	Mapping Murder: a Socio-legal investigation of Homicide in Lancashire, c.1816–1914	15030483@brookes.ac.uk
Sarah Slator	Politics in the Courtroom: International Communism, the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Rivonia Trial in South Africa 1963–64	15005300@brookes.ac.uk

PhD Completions

2017

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Melanie Bashor	Engineering Tolerance: Origins of Multicultural Education Policies in the Atlantic World from 1941‒1988	Professor Glen O’Hara
Dr Alan Bailey	Hume on Scepticism, Experience, and Religious Belief (PhD by Publication)	Dr Stephen Boulter Dr Dan O'Brien
Dr Crispin Hyde-Dunn	Henry VII: A Study of Visual Display in Life and Death	Dr Charles Robertson Professor Andrew Spicer
Dr Jenifer Dyer	Children in Domestic Service c. 1760–1830	Dr Aylsa Levene Dr Joanne Begiato
Dr Virginia Flew	London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art: The Impact on Landscape Painting and its Reception	Dr Matthew Craske Professor Christiana Payne
Dr Des Newell	Masculinity and the Plebeian Honour Fight: Dispute Resolution in Georgian England	Professor Joanne Begiato Professor Anne-Marie Kilday
Dr Catherine Rushmore	Chemicals and their users in the British Home 1930s and 1980s	Dr Viviane Quirke
Dr Mary Thompson	The Furrowed Brow: The Depiction of the Elderly in Painting in England and the United States, 1870-1910	Dr Matthew Craske Professor Christiana Payne
Dr Marcus Vestberg	The Nature of Artificial and Human Rationality	Dr Mark Cain Dr Dan O’Brien
Dr Jan Walters	Architectural Planning and Behavioural Conventions in the Re-Use of Spiritual Properties In Sixteenth-Century London	Dr Harry Mount

2016

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Alexandra Barmpouti	Eugenics, Demography and Family Planning in Greece, 1950-1980: The Activities of the Hellenic Eugenics Society	Dr Marius Turda
Dr Christine Bianco	Modern Art for Middle America: American Abstraction in Mass Magazines, 1946–1960	Dr Elizabeth Darling
Dr Elizabeth Darling	Spirituality in Psychodynamic Counselling: An Exploration of Counsellor’s Understandings of and Engagement with Spirituality in Practice	Dr Sally Richards (Social Work and Public Health) Professor Beverley Clack
Dr Hanna Choudhury	The Forgotten Children: The Association of Parents of Backward Children and the Legacy of Eugenics in Britain, 1946-1960	Dr Marius Turda
Dr Catriona Gilmour-Hamilton	A Cohort of One: Oral Narratives of Cancer Research in Britain, 1970–2010	Dr Viviane Quirke Dr Marius Turda
Dr Stephen Massie	The Imperialism of Cecil John Rhodes: Metropolitan Perceptions of a Colonial Reputation	Dr Donal Lowry
Dr Jenny Wright	Public Health Women Doctors in England, 1965–1991	Professor Glen O’Hara

2015

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Rosemary Leadbetter	Experiencing smallpox in eighteenth-century England	Professsor Joanne Bailey Dr Alysa Levene
Dr Mary O’Neill	Model Citizens: Fisherfolk Imagery from West Cornwall, 1860-1910	Professor Christiana Payne
Dr Barbara Byrant	A Victorian Artist on Display: G.F. Watts and the Exhibition Culture in the Nineteenth and the Twenty-first Century (PhD by Publication)	Dr Matthew Craske Professor Christiana Payne
Dr Linda Ryan	John Wesley’s Thinking and Practice concerning Child-rearing and Education: An Evaluation within its Eighteenth-Century Context	Professor William Gibson
Dr Pete Mills	Popular Conspiracism in Britain, 1880–1914	Dr Tom Crook
Dr Dana Vilistere	The Core Conceptual Scheme: A Search for Common Aspects of Human Thought	Dr Mark Cain
Dr Clive Norris	Prophets and Profits: The Financing of Wesleyan Methodism, c. 1740–1800	Professor William Gibson Dr Peter Forsaith
Dr Nick Saunders	The Suez Crisis and Britain’s European Allies	Professor Glen O’Hara
Dr Esther Shallan	Necessity, Choice and Misconception: A Qualified Approach to the Problem of Evil	Professor Beverley Clack
Dr Keith Anderson	An Investigation of Twentieth-Century Works of Art, which make use of the Iconography of the Crucifixion	Professor William Gibson
Dr Andrew McIntyre	Inspiration and Novelty: Creativity and the Modularity of Mind	Dr Mark Cain

2014

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Colin Beckley	Natural Selection and Natural Processes: A Philosophical Examination of the Processes of Evolution	Dr Martin Groves
Dr Patricia Bennett	Relationality and Health: Developing a Transversal Neuro-theological account of the Pathways linking Social Connection, Immune Function and Health Outcomes	Dr Dominic Corrywright
Dr Sally Tye	Religion, the SPCK and the Westminster Workhouse: ‘Re-enchanting’ the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse	Professor William Gibson Dr Alysa Levene
Dr Patrick Merricks	Should such Faith Offend? Bishop Barnes and the British Eugenics Movement, c. 1924–1953	Dr Marius Turda

2013

Name	Title	Directors
Dr Olive Barnes	The Catholic Church in England: The Politics of Allegiance and Identity, 1791–1908	Professor David Nash
Dr Linda Fisher-Høyrem	What Matter? Human Nature beyond the Cartesian Framework	Dr Stephen Boulter
Dr Steven Byrne	Variation, Classification and Education: The Making and Remaking of the ‘Normal Child’ in England, 1880–1914	Dr Tom Crook
Dr Nella Robertson	The Jacobethan Legacy: Motive and Practice in British Architecture, c. 1870–1914	Dr Elizabeth Darling
Dr Fraser Joyce	Naming the Dead: Establishing the Identity of the Unknown Body in England and Wales, 1800–1934	Dr Katherine Watson
Dr Michele Paule	Smartgirls: Discourses of Achieving Girlhood in Schools, on Screen and Online	Professor Beverley Clack

2012

Name	Title	Directors
Dr George Gosling	Co-Ordinating Diversity: The Mixed Economy of Healthcare in Bristol, 1918–1948	Prof. Glen O'Hara
Dr Catherine Flinn	‘In Spite of Planning’: Reconstructing Britain's Blitzed Cities, 1945–1954	Prof. Glen O'Hara
Dr Fiona Mann	Brushing the Surface: The Practice and Critical Reception of Watercolour Techniques in England, 1850–1880	Prof. Christiana Payne
Dr Stefan Fisher-Høyrem	Time Machines: Technology and the Performance of Secular Time in Victorian England	Dr Tom Crook
Dr Lynsey Cullen	Patient Case Records of the Royal Free Hospital, 1902–1912	Prof. Steven King
Dr Nancy Langham	‘The Splendour and Beauty of Truth’: John Rogers Herbert, RA (1810–1890)	Professor Christiana Payne
Dr Aleksandra Loewenau	The Impact of Nazi Medical Experiments on Polish Inmates at Dachau, Auschwitz and Ravensbrück	Professor Paul Weindling