Postgraduate Research

Current PhD students

Luca Cheli Bianchini, 2022-present [PT], ‘The Murder of Giulia Colombi: Pride, Honour and Social Manoeuvre’, supervised by Professor Catherine Fletcher

Tom Hale, 2024-present, ‘Banners and Standards: The Less Tangible Properties of Banners and Standards on Crusade’, supervised by Dr Kathryn Hurlock

Peter Norman, 2022-present, ‘Irish Republicanism in the 1860s in Northwest England, the Chester Castle Raid and the Failed Rising of 1867’, supervised by Dr Stuart Aveyard

Simon Olsen, 2020-present (PT), ‘British Counterinsurgency and Combat Trauma in Afghanistan, 2001-11’, supervised by Dr Stuart Aveyard

Guy Reynolds, 2025-present, ‘A Narrative Approach to War and Society in Sixteenth-Century Hampshire’, supervised by Professor Catherine Fletcher

Nerea Wachter Galindo, 2024-present [NWCDTP Team Project funded PhD], ‘The Limits of Humanitarianism: Health-Based Restrictions on Child Evacuations during the Spanish Civil War’, supervised by Dr Mercedes Penalba-Sotorrio

Completed PhDs

Ian Bass, ‘The Crozier and the Cross: Crusading and the English Episcopate, c.1170–1313′.

Mohemed Hagi Mahamoud, ‘Turkey’s Strategic Advantage in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effects of Reciprocity and the Continuing Viability of the Engagement​’.

Samantha Nelson, 2021-25 [AHRC-funded, completed], ‘Women, Warfare and the Tudor Regimes (c. 1485-1603)’, supervised by Prof. Catherine Fletcher

Owen Rees, ‘Trauma in Transition: Moving from Domestic to Military Service, and back again, in Classical Athens’.

Stephen Roberts, ‘The Great War and the People of Wirral in Cheshire c.1911-1925’.