Research dissertation

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

You will complete a research dissertation which is the sole assessed piece of work which you will produce for this programme. You have considerable freedom to define your own dissertation project — it must be a feasible project that one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise. You are expected to have a defined research proposal before applying to this programme and you can discuss this further with the Programme Director or any relevant members of the academic staff.

Example dissertation topics

Past dissertation topics have included:

  • Gifts in the Persian Empire – A re-appraisal of Greek evidence and modern anthropological theory
  • A prosopographical study of Ctesias’ Persica
  • Coinage and Judaea
  • Villa and food production
  • Mobility in the Seleucid empire
  • Late Roman empresses

 

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