Research dissertation

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:

  • Cicero and Epicureanism
  • Agricultural destruction in Hellenistic Greece
  • Late antique invective
  • The reception of Antigone in Ireland
  • Herodas’ poetic balance

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