Research by Graduate School students

Celebrating our students 

The Graduate School facilitates a stimulating and enriching learning and research environment for both internal and external graduate students and postgraduate researchers. Our programme of training and development activities is designed to help students conduct their research whilst facilitating them to becoming independent researchers. 

A selection of recent research, publications and posters by Oxford University postgraduate students who have completed a Graduate School training workshop can be found below. 

Interested in attending a session? See our Graduate School training events for Oxford University students to explore and register for upcoming sessions.

If you are an external postgraduate student, research fellow or postgrad, please see our short courses and training open to all.

Posters

A selection of posters created by our Oxford University Graduate School students can be viewed by using the links below (PDFs). Most of these were created for Oxford University conferences, with some being award winning.

Student publications and research

Craig Paterson

DPhil in Literature and Arts

Craig Paterson convened the first 'New Oxford Research in the Humanities' interdisciplinary conference at the Department in September 2024. Researchers currently undertaking a DPhil in Architectural History, English Local History, and Literature and Arts were invited to get together to learn more about each other’s work, to share ideas and knowledge with like-minded people, and to think about their own research in new ways. Exciting keynote talks were presented by faculty staff to supplement the variety of interesting papers delivered by doctoral students. One presenter reflected that they ‘have come away full of ideas and with some new friends and contacts’; while another ‘went away with a real feeling of community and common endeavour’. It is hoped that the next conference can be extended to include those studying for DPhils in other humanities subjects with the Department.

Neil Godfrey

DPhil in Archaeology

Neil Godfrey contributed to Volume IV of Itinera, The Journal of the Roman Roads Research Association – the world’s only peer reviewed journal dedicated to Roman road studies. Neil stated, 'I was very pleased to be able to make a contribution to improving the understanding of sections of the Roman road network in southwest England'.

Anna Brunton

DPhil Literature and Arts

Anna Brunton won the International Society for Cultural History Essay Prize in 2020. The criteria included the application of and/or inclusion of 'methodological innovation, theoretical originality or historiographical significance'. As well as winning the award Anna was invited to collect the award at their annual conference in 2021, which that year was in Verona. The article was published in Cultural History volume 11, issue 1, April 2022.

VIDES online journal

Check out VIDES, the annual online journal of interdisciplinary essays produced by our Master's in Literature and Arts students.

Seda Ozturk

DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Seda successfully developed a peer reviewed paper in 2023 which was part of the proceedings from presentations at the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+8), which was hosted by Harvard University and its Department of Linguistics. 

Sarah Cooley

DPhil English Local History

Sarah Cooley recently presented on the way in which she adopts the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in her research; this was alongside Dr Martin Davies, the Digital Map Curator at the Bodleian Libraries and Burak Belli (a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford).

Mike Kipling

DPhil English Local History

Mike Kipling has written for journal Local Population studies in 2023 about the Sussex Debt Suits at the Elizabethan Court of Common Pleas.

Rachel O’Driscoll

DPhil English Local History

Rachel O'Driscoll has written a blog post about her research which has been highly praised by other academics in her field.

Nicole Redvers

DPhil Evidence Based Health Care

Nicole co-wrote the peer-reviewed paper Physicians’ views of patient–planetary health co-benefit prescribing: a mixed methods systematic review for the Lancet in 2023. More recently she has published the paper ‘Patient-planetary health co-benefit prescribing in a circumpolar health region: a qualitative study of physician voices from the Northwest Territories, Canada’ in the British Medical Journal.

Training for Oxford Uni students

As a graduate student at the University of Oxford you become a member of one of the most highly regarded educational and research institutions in the world. The Graduate School will help you make the most of the wealth of resources and opportunities available, drawing on our extensive experience in supporting graduate study.

Although primarily intended for research students, sessions are open to postgraduate taught students where the content is considered appropriate. Postgraduate students at the University outside of the Department are also welcome to attend any of our sessions to complement their own divisional or departmental research training programmes.

See our Graduate School training events to explore and register for upcoming sessions.

If you are an external postgraduate student, research fellow or postgrad, please see our short courses and training open to all.