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Once you've identified the subject area you wish to research, you will need to find a supervisor for your project. All Doctoral Researchers are provided with a lead supervisor, who will act as the main source of academic supervisory support and research mentoring during your time as a Doctoral Researcher at the University.

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Dr Louise Curran

Dr Louise Curran

Associate Professor in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Department of English Literature

I welcome enquiries about research supervision in the following areas: letter-writing and archive formation; literary fame and celebrity; the eighteenth-century novel and prose style; life-writing from the eighteenth-century to the Romantic period; textual editing; eighteenth-century satire.

Dr Ben Curry

Dr Ben Curry

Lecturer in Music

Department of Music

I welcome applications from research students interested in any of the following areas: music and meaning, popular music, jazz, film music, late eighteenth-century music and music analysis.

Dr Tom Cutterham

Dr Tom Cutterham

Associate Professor of United States History

Department of History

Dr Cutterham will consider proposals for doctoral work in topics closely related to the politics and political thought of the American revolution and the early republic. He is also open to joining supervision teams for topics connected to the Atlantic world or the British empire in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, or for projects that address questions of class-formation and class struggle.

Professor David Cutts

Professor David Cutts

Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Professor Cutts has supervised 9 doctoral students through to the completion of their PhDs. Four of these were ESRC funded scholarships. He currently co-supervises in an external capacity one PhD student (Tristan Hotham) from the University of Bath. (http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/research/research-students/).

Professor Cutts is particularly keen to supervise students wishing to study political and electoral behaviour, party campaigning turnout, civic engagement, populist parties, social media and politics. He is especially ...