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Postgraduate Research Careers

Our postgraduate research alumni have entered various academic and professional fields.

  • Emily Corran's PhD was on lying and perjury in medieval practical thought. She went on to take up a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford University. She now works at UCL History as a Medieval Historian.
  • Katherine Cross wrote a PhD thesis on ethnicity in Viking Age England and Normandy before taking up a JRF at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a position as postdoctoral researcher on the British Museum's Empires of Faith project, exploring the development of religious imagery across the Late Antique world.
  • Misha Ewen completed her PhD in 2017 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Political Economies of International Commerce at the University of Kent.
  • Antonia Fitzpatrick completed a PhD at UCL on individuality and identity in medieval philosophy, before taking up first a JRF at St John's College, Oxford University, and then a Departmental Lectureship at the Oxford University History department.
  • Zubin Mistry completed his PhD at UCL in 2012, spent further years in the department as a teaching fellow, and moved on to a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London in 2014. He is now a Lecturer in Early Medieval European History at the University of Edinburgh.
  • Suresh Muthukumaran completed his PhD at UCL in 2016 and is now on a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Humanities (History) at the National University of Singapore.
  • Andrew Smith, who worked as a teaching fellow at UCL for four years, left the department to take up a post as a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History and Politics at the University of Chichester.
  • Kate Smith, the postdoctoral fellow on the Leverhulme-funded project, The East India Company at Home, completed that contract and joined the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History.
  • Carl Walsh, who completed his PhD at UCL before working as a teaching fellow in the department, took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, for 2017-18.
  • Patrick Walsh, who has been both a research associate and teaching fellow at UCL History, took up a lectureship at Trinity College Dublin in January 2018.
  • Benedict Wiedemann, who completed a PhD on 'Papal Overlordship and protectio of the King, c.1000-1300' in 2017, has just been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.