Support and supervision of high quality graduate research students lies at the heart of the continuing success of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology. MPhil and PhD students, along with early career post-doctoral research fellows, provide the freshness of perspective and dynamic energy required of any successful research institute. As a researcher within the CMA students not only benefit from direct supervision from world leading experts, but also gain access to the broader depth of experience held within one of the UK’s largest and most successful archaeology departments. Recent thesis topics include:
- Site location and palaeo-oceanography for Iron Age of the Scillies
- Ethnography of boat-building and use in Kerala, south Asia
- Palaeo-environmental modelling and geospatial analysis of the Mesolithic of the southern North Sea basin
- Social analysis of steamboat development in North America
- The invention of the lateen sail in the ancient Mediterannean
- The route, navigation and landscape of the medieval Nile in Islamic Egypt
- Marine resource exploitation in a Roman North African province