Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology

PhD

• Peter Aitken: The effectiveness of Allied special operations in WW2
• Richard Brija: The American Underground in WWI: Preserving  Hallowed Legacy
• Richard Burklund: Corpses in the Grass”: Strategic Culture and Combat Effectiveness in the Pacific War; A Case Study of the U.S. Seventh Infantry Division
• Elizabeth Carlton: From Commando Country to Bomber County: A comparative study into how museums from differing regions of the UK present WW2 experiences through object displays
• Christina Chatzitheodorou: A historical comparative study of the role of female partisans in Greece, Italy, France, and Spain in the 1930s and 1940s
• Craig Conner: Scottish Military Culture and Highland and Lowland Elites: A Comparative Study, 1493-1625
• Jonathan Cooper: Scottish regiments in Singapore 1942-1945
• James Gallacher: The accomplishments of their ancestors: memory and crusading in England, France and Burgundy in 15C
• Adam Gordon: The Evolution of British Intelligence and Security Structures, 1870-1914
• Stephen Hanna: Total Intelligence and Total War: In what ways did concepts and perceptions of intelligence change during the inter-war period in the United Kingdom and Japan with regards to it's efficacy, applicability, and utility in winning increasingly 'total' wars.
• Aileen Lichtenstein: A transatlantic revolutionary moment? The dynamics of cross-border activism in Europe and the US, 1900-1923
• Euan Loarridge: An analysis of community and the impact of culture in Glasgow's WWI combat infantry batallions 1914-20
• Katherine MacKinnon: Oral histories of refugee lives in Scotland 1974 - present
• Fraser McGowan: Intelligence culture as intelligence practice: the U.S. National Intelligence Council, 1979-1991
• Adam McNeil: Defending Poitou and Gascony, 1204-1307: Plantagenet Militar
• Sophia Nash: What factors led to the generally poor reputation of British mounted troops in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• Blythe Paterson: Why Build?: Motivations behind fortified building in fourteenth century Northumberland
• Clément Renault: Predict to prevent: the use and function of anticipation in intelligence
• Derrick Rowe: An Imperial Moment: American’s Conquest of the Philippines
• William Spencer: THe official record: for whom?
• Ole Tørrisplass: Airpower for effective small state strategy in a competitive world
• David Waterman: The Identity of Associate Scottish Infantry Regiments
• Michael Wolven: A history of Humanitarian Evacuations
• Laura Zenner: The First World War Centenary and its legacy

MPhil by Research

• Josh Fordham: Command & Control: An Analysis of Headquarters Size at the Operational and Tactical Levels in a Conventional Battlespace
• Sam Hamad: The Advance of liberalism in the Era of the War on Terror
• Johnny Lian: Norwegian National Police Special Response Units
• Freddy Rotseth: Norwegian Police Crisis Management Structure

PhD theses

• Baher Ibrahim (2021): Uprooting, trauma, and confinement: psychiatry in refugee camps, 1945 -1993
• Palle Ydstebø (2021): 1918 and the emergence of operational art
• Rebecca Whiting (2021): Archives, conflict and power: Iraqi archives displaced to the United States during the Gulf Wars
• Carlos Barrera (2021): Culture and strategy in the North American middle powers during the neoliberal era. The politics of strategic policy in Mexico and Canada, 1988-2015
• John Birkeland (2021): Maritime airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the High North - The role of anti-submarine warfare - 1945 to the present
• Daniel Oliver (2021): Burying the deposed: Commemoration of Edward II, Richard II and Henry VI.
• Sigbjorn Halsne (2018): The iron fist in the velvet glove: the application of classic counterinsurgency theory in Afghanistan 2006-10. 
• Aoife Haberlin (2018): The infrastructure and mechanics of pilgrimage to the Latin East in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
• Justin Smith (2017): "The Sword and the Law": Elizabethan soldiers’ perception and practice of the laws of armed conflict, 1569-1587.
• Colin McDowall (2017): Personalities, politics and power: the British Chiefs of Staff Committee in the Phoney War, 1939-1940.
• Steinar Skaar (2017): The utility of coercion theory in the Afghan conflict.
• Allan Gillies (2016), State-narco networks and the ‘War on Drugs’ in post-transition Bolivia, with special reference to 1989-1993.
• Colin Currie (2016), El rei-cavalleresc: chivalry, crusade and the conduct of war in James I of Aragon’s Llibre dels Fets.
• Christopher Miller (2016), Planning and profits: the political economy of private naval armaments manufacture and supply organisation in Britain, 1918-41. 
• Ross Crawford (2016), Warfare in the West Highlands and Isles of Scotland, c. 1544-1615.
• Antony Piscitelli (2015),  The United States Marine Corps way of war.
• Fergus Oakes (2015), A study focussing on the conduct of the Baron's War of 1264-67 between King Henry III and the baronial opposition.
• Falko Bell (2014), British Human intelligence during WW2.
• Ian Isherwood (2012), Disenchantment: a cultural narrative.
• Alan MacLeod (2012), Political Participation and Security Cooperation: the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the US and the Troubles in Northern Ireland, 1971-1974
• Martin Gibson (2012), British Strategy and Oil 1914-1924
• Ulrike Thieme (2009), The Foreign Office and the Soviet Union 1933-49
• Ben Gillon (2009), British planning for the defence of India and the re-organisation of the Indian Army 1902-1915
• Gjert Dyndal (2009), Maritime Air Power in British Defence Policy, 1957-67
• Craig French (2007), 51st Highland Division in the First World War
• Dag Henriksen (2006), US projection of power in Kosovo
• Brian Jamison (2005), Scotland and the Trident system 1979-1996
• Corinne Mahaffey (2004), Professionalisation of British Army Officers Corp and Imperial Deployment
• Neil Croll (2003), Tukhachevsky in the Russian Civil War
• Keith McLay (2003), Politics: Government and the Armed Forces, 1702-1748
• Eleftheria Delaporta (2003), 20th Century Diplomatic History: The Greek Civil War and the Foreign Powers 1944-47
• Eleftheria Daleziou (2002), The Greek expedition in Asia Minor and the Great Powers 1917-1923
• Derek Young (2002), Voluntary Recruitment in Scotland 1914 – 1916
• Ross Anderson (2002), East African Campaign between Britain and Germany on the 1st World War
• Alex Marshall (2001), Russian Colonial Policy and Practice in Central Asia, 1860-1917
• William Buckingham (2001), Development of British Airborne Forces 1940-45
• Saul David (2001), The East India Company Army and the Indian Mutiny

MPhil by Research theses

• Chnor Ahmad (2019), The dilemma of Kurdish nationalism as a result of international treaties and foreign occupations between the years 1850 to 1930
• Thomas Hughes (2014), The legitimacy of humanitarian based intervention operations and the moral necessity for subsequent stabilisation, with specific reference to Just War Tradition and the UN's Responsibility to Protect concept

Master of Research theses (MRes)

• Jack Anderson (2018), The spatial cosmology of the Stalin cult: ritual, myth and metanarrative