Our Masters students complete at least one research project during their studies at Southampton.
In the past dissertations topics have included:
A Ship, a Shop and a Mill. Exploring the biographies of ships (2011)
Smoke & Mirrors: Finding things which want to stay hidden. A revised approach to the interpretation of smuggling identity and the role of customs and revenue services during the 18th and 19th century (2011)
The Ship as Social Space: Analysing spatiality within East Indiamen (2011)
Boats, Buoys and Beer: An ethnographic study of the Pembrokeshire Longboat (2010)
The port of Titchfield (2010)
Sea-Level Change and the Mesolithic of the Irish Sea (2010)
Heritage Management in international waters (2010)
Ship Graffiti: Context as an indicator of social, ritual, practical and economic activities in the past (2010)
A Palaeogeographic Reconstruction of the Upper Reaches of Southampton Water (2010)
Canoes as Mechanisms for Resistance and Social Identity Amongst African American Slaves in the Chesapeake: Historical References and an Archaeological Example (2009)
Ground-truthing acoustic imaging on Henry V’s ‘Grace Dieu’ (2008)
Early Bronze Age sites in the Southern Peloponnese: Coastal morphology and settlement patterns (2008)
An integrated investigation into Henry V’s warships ‘Holigost’ and ‘Trinity Royal’, and the Bursledon II wreck in the River Hamble, Hampshire (2001)
Contextual Analysis of Prehistoric Logboats: Readdressing Northern European Examples from Later Prehistory (2001)
An investigation and re-assessment of the sailing capabilities of Late Bronze Age vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean (2000)