Dissertation

You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation which is submitted on an assigned date in August.

The research dissertation (of approximately 30,000 words) is the sole assessed piece of work that you will be required to produce. You have considerable freedom to define your own dissertation project, while taking advice from one or more staff members including the supervisors. You are expected to have a defined research proposal, which you can discuss with the Programme Director or any relevant members of the academic staff, before formally applying for the programme.

Example dissertation topics

Past dissertation topics have included:

  • Quarries of the Central Sector of Hadrian’s Wall
  • Site Ecology and Environment at the Bradford Kaims: Simultaneous Thin-section Micromorphology and Phytolith Identifications as an Indicator of Burnt Mound Depositional Sequences and Components
  • The iconography of Etruscan religious specialists
  • Cypriot ceramics from the Byzantine ‘Dark Age’
  • Age estimation using thin sections of clavicles from a modern Balkan autopsy sample.

 

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