Recently completed or current PhD student theses:

Comparative research into contact and relationships between the Netherlands and Kent in the period AD 400 – 750, through a holistic analysis of funerary data; The published works of Joyce Grenfell and other contemporaneous female entertainers as socio-political commentators; Continuities and discontinuities: Notions of Royal authority in medieval English literature, in five case studies; The impact of the reformation on Canterbury during the late Marian and early Elizabethan eras (c.1553-1565); Investigating the medical and other forms of care the poor received in Kentish workhouses after 1834; The Reverend Caleb Perfect: Person, power and publishing.

Research areas include:

History; Archaeology; English Language and Literature; Theology and Religious Studies; Creative Writing; Applied Linguistics.