You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August. The dissertation is an independent research project supervised by one or more members of the academic staff. You have considerable freedom to define your own dissertation project — so long as it is a feasible project that one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise. You will meet with the Programme Director and other members of the department to decide on a topic, usually in Semester 2 and you will put together a research proposal as part of the training course. Example dissertation topics Past dissertation topics include: Royal monuments of Hellenistic Numidia The Usk and Wye valleys in the Roman period The cult of Isis in central Italy Ptolemaic interventions at Philae This article was published on 2024-06-19