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Archaeology research students
Archaeology at Glasgow has an active postgraduate community, carrying out research on a wide range of topics from the Mesolithic to the present day and from Northern Scandinavia to the Eastern Mediterranean.
Use the table below to find more information about our research students and their projects. There are useful links to various resources and information on the right, and we also have information on a wide range of funding opportunities. You can also see our recently awarded PhDs, and the programme of our weekly seminars.
Postgraduate Community
Morgana McCabe, current PhD student, talks about the postgraduate community
Morgana McCabe, current PhD student, talks about the postgraduate community
The postgraduates in Archaeology at Glasgow enjoy one of the university’s most supportive, collaborative and friendly communities on campus. Intellectually, it’s a very generous group, with lots of opportunities on offer to MLitt and PhD students to get involved in existing projects or start new ones together, whether in the field or the classroom, or through conferences and publications. The best example of this is our own publication Love Archaeology Magazine, where there are ample chances for authors, researchers, editors, photographers and creative types to get involved.
"I was initially drawn to archaeology at Glasgow because of the targeted research themes the Department specialises in – in my case Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology. What inspired me to stay on for a PhD after completing my MLitt was the amazing community of postgraduates and staff. Relocating 3,000 miles away from your home and family is a daunting task, unless you have intellectual and social support". Jen, Pennsylvania, USA.
Terence Christian, current PhD student, talks about the postgraduate community
Close engagement in our intellectual endeavours wouldn’t be the same without the social life which accompanies it. The group is very active socially, celebrating holidays from various nations in addition to plenty of evenings out (and in) and trips throughout the year. One of the highlights is definitely the annual trip to the TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) conference, at which Glasgow is always well-represented by staff and students. Of course it's an academic event, but more than anything it's great fun with great friends.
PhD research projects
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| Adamson, Donald Beck | Commercialisation before Culloden: An archaeology of the re-direction of food surpluses in the Scottish Highlands prior to 1745 | |
| Buchanan, Courtney | Scandinavian artefacts from southern Scotland and northern England: cultural contacts, interactions and identities in peripheral areas of Scandinavian settlement | |
| Busset, Anouk | Early Medieval sculpture in 'barbarian' Europe: a comparative study between Britain and Scandinavia | |
| Carnes, Alexander | From long mounds to stone rows: the prehistory of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland | |
| Charland, Amanda | Landscapes of God's War: Redefining Frankish and Muslim Urban Fortifications in the Levant | |
| Chelazzi, Francesca |
Settlement strategies in Bronze Age southwestern Cyprus |
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| Christian, Terence |
Operations analysis of Second World War Squadrons in Scotland including a new methodology for aircraft wreck excavation |
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| Cuenca-Garcia, Carmen | The Interface of Geophysical and Geochemical Survey in Archaeological Prospection | |
| Ferguson, Natasha | An Assessment of the Impact and Contribution of Metal Detectorists to Battlefield Archaeology | |
| Garst, Leigh | The Scottish tower house revisited | |
| Grant, Kevin | Evocations of Modern Scottish Highland and Island Landscapes | |
| Hayne, Jeremy | Culture Contact and Exchange in Iron Age North Sardinia | |
| Horne, Tom | A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland: Defining Hebridean-Norse Sub-region in the Viking World | |
| Kyle, Alison | An examination of regionality in the material culture of Ireland and western Britain in the first millennium AD | |
| Lightbody, Dave |
The Hybridising Tree of Life: A Postcolonial Archaeology of the Cypriot City Kingdoms |
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| McCabe, Morgana | Liminal Faces and Places: the feared other in the archaeological landscape | |
| McElroy, Ian |
Converting temples; converting minds: temple-church conversion in the Mediterranean A.D. 300-800 |
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| McNutt, Ryan |
Finding Forgotten Fields: Towards a Methodology of Historic Landscape Reconstruction and Predictive Modelling of Battlefield Locations |
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| Novotny, Jen | Sedition at the supper table: the material culture of the Jacobite rebellions | |
| O'Leary, Owen | A model for recovery: predicting the location of human remains on WWII bomber and cargo aircraft crash sites | |
| Sahlen, Daniel | Production of crucibles and moulds in late prehistoric Scotland: the evidence from ceramic technology | |
| Schuerger, Andre | The archaeology of the Battle of Luetzen: an examination of 17th century military material culture | |
| Sorotou, Aphrodite | Integrated landscape approaches: the role of archaeology in landscape methodologies and policies in Greece | |
| Steedman, Marjon | Organisation of the Sardinian grain supply and the resulting political/cultural impact | |
| Trigg, Jonathan | The Materiality of Great War Remembrance: tracing changes in commemmorative practice, with particular reference to Essex | |
| Watson, Shirley Ann | The Cultural Associations and Contemporary Interpretation of Scottish Battlefields | |
| Younger, Rebecca |
De-henging the henge |