Postgraduate Profiles

Postgraduate students are a vital part of the research community at Canterbury Christ Church University. The Centre for Kent History and Heritage supports this community, especially those who wish to study a Kent history, archaeology and/or heritage topic for a higher degree at CCCU. 

For example, postgraduates can participate in the Kent History Postgraduate Group, a friendly forum where they can present and discuss their research. If they wish they can also apply for financial help from the Ian Coulson Memorial Postgraduate Fund.

Postgraduate Degrees in Progress

Tracey Dessoy The place and role of women in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland: the changing role of women in the local economy c.1150-1500	PROFILE
Jane Richardson A critical study of three religious houses: Tonbridge, Bayham and Lesnes.	PROFILE
Rebecca Jarvis Women of the Lesser Aristocracy and Knightly Class in Thirteenth-Century England	PROFILE
Maureen McLeod Tonbridge: the evolution of a town, 1250 to 1700	PROFILE
Dean Irwin The Jews of Medieval England, 1194-1276	PROFILE
Tia Lucas Transactional Sex in a Rural Setting 1600-1800	PROFILE
Jacie-Ann Cole Jacie-Ann Cole: examining issues relating to food in rural Kent during the Second World War	PROFILE

Postgraduate Degrees Recently Completed

Lily Hawker-Yates Lily Hawker-Yates: studying how past societies in Kent interpreted prehistoric structures in the landscape	PROFILE
Pete Joyce The Reverend Caleb Parfect: Person, Power and Publishing	PROFILE
Joe O’Riordan The impact of the Reformation on Canterbury during the Late Marian and Early Elizabethan eras (c.1553-1565)	PROFILE
Cheryl Periton Exploring the development of numeracy in early modern Kent, using Faversham as a case study	PROFILE
Kevin Field Investigating the medical and other forms of care the poor received in Kentish workhouses after 1834	PROFILE