Postgraduate supervision
Briony welcomes enquiries from potential PGRs (PhD and Masters candidates) wishing to work on projects on the following themes (broadly interpreted), in the UK and beyond, in periods c. 1400 onwards (and long duree studies):
- Historical geographies of landscape and environmental change, including projects on living with water and flood; enclosure and the commons; agricultural improvement; rural and urban landscapes; global environmental histories
- Women histories and historical geographies
- The geographies of protest, resistance and the law (in both historic and contemporary contexts)
- Heritage and/or arts-based community engagement, including in relation to climate action
- Climate action and social justice, particularly place-based approaches to resilience building
Completed PhDs
- Helen Bergin, The man, the sea and the ice. Captain William Colbeck's Antarctic story (1898-1904)
- Charlotte Garside, Women in Chancery: an analysis of chancery as a women's court of redress in late 17th-century England
- Kalliopi Kaparounaki, Caring children in Malawi: children's work within families affected by illness and disability
- Sarah Shields, Maid, wife, widow: women's life-course and property ownership, 1550-1800
- Jazmin Scarlett, The development of co-volcanic societies: the reciprocal relationships between the volcano La Soufrière and the society of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles, 1718-1979
- Lizzie Rogers, Women and the World: Explorers from the Home during the Enlightenment in Britain
- Stormm Buxton-Hill, The impact of women on family dynastic ambitions and legal change in England, 1550-1800
- Catherine Goddard, Heritage interpretation and visitor experience at historic homes in the East Midlands, with a focus on women's history
- Ruth Quinn, Agricultural heritage of Saltaire
- Helen Manning (passed subject to corrections) Women, property and the law: mapping sexual inequality in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1708-1974
- Alice Whiteoak, Widows in the Court of Exchequer: Allowed Power and Legal Redress in England, 1620-1670
Current PhD supervisions
- Flavia Manieri, Living with Floods in 20th C Hull
- Fred Bricknell, Water, Slavery and Indentured Labour: Plantations and People in British Guiana, c.1796-1880
- Blessing Mucherera, The Cultural Production of Flood Injustices
- Luke Michno-Neville Living on the Edge: surviving and thriving in the Holocene Humberhead Levels
- Felicity Wood, English literature, water, health, and well-being in estuary communities, 1500 - 1700