Postgraduate research
The Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS) offers a thriving research environment for postgraduates interested in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine era.
We welcome enquires from prospective research students. If you would like to find out more please visit the Classics research degrees or Archaeology research degrees pages.
Current and recent PhD students linked to CLABS are listed below.
Marisoly Alvarez
Archaeology
Transformations in the expression of social identity within the towns and hinterlands of central and southern Spain, between the Late Antique period and the Islamic Emirate (ca. AD 450–950)
Stuart McCunn
Classics
Supply and Command: A study of the Late Roman commissariat [completed]
Nikki Rollason
Classics
Taking on the mantle of authority: gifts of clothing in late-antique literature [completed]
Jingyi Shen
Archaeology
The manufacture technology and provenance of low fired glazed wares in China and the Middle East (7th–10th century)
Alex Siu
Archaeology
Chemical compositions of Islamic glass in the 9th–12th centuries, with a focus on Syria, Turkey, Georgia and China
Thomas Smith
Archaeology
An interdisciplinary study of vessel glass from Bulgaria between the fourth to 14th centuries
Robert Stone
Classics
Representations of barbarians in Late Antiquity
Rebecca Usherwood
Classics
Merited Oblivion ‘Damnatio Memoriae’ and the Constantinian Dynasty [completed]
Michael Wuk
Classics
The Language of Loyalty: Oaths and their role in Late Antiquity [completed]