Research projects

Current research projects

Research is a vital aspect of the Department of Classics and Archaeology. Our staff are involved in a number of research projects across a wide range of areas and specialties.

Diver underwater in ruins of Pavlopetri with reconstructed pot

Using the table below you can filter research projects by:

project name

member of staff

region

research theme

You can also find out more about previous research, including completed projects, by visiting our past projects page.

Table of current research projects
Project	Principal investigator	Region	Research themes
Audiences of the graphic novel Three	Lynn Fotheringham	Worldwide	Identities and Empires Methodologies of Interpretation
Box Office Bears (BOB): animal baiting in early modern England (Ongoing)	Hannah O'Regan	UK	Heritage from local to global Identities and Empires
Building capacity for sustainable archaeological science and heritage in Turkey (Past)	Holly Miller	Turkey	Heritage from global to local Methodologies of Interpretation
Burials at Caistor St Edmund (Past)	William Bowden and Hannah O'Regan	UK	Environment, bodies and health
Butrint project (Past)	William Bowden	Albania	Environment, bodies and health Heritage from local to global Identities and Empires
Caistor Roman town (Past)	William Bowden	UK	Heritage from local to global Identities and Empires
City of Caves (Ongoing)	Chris King	Nottingham, UK	Heritage from local to global
China ports: history, heritage and development	Julian Henderson	China	Heritage from local to global
Decline of the bear: tracing the extinction of Britain’s largest carnivore (Past)	Hannah O'Regan	UK	Environment, bodies and health
Development of Islamic glass technology (Past)	Julian Henderson	Syria, Jordan and Bahrain	Heritage from local to global Methodologies of Interpretation
Divine saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism (Ongoing)	Theodora Jim	Greece and China	Identities and Empires Society and mobility
Dog Hole Cave, Haverback (Past)	Hannah O'Regan	UK	Environment, bodies and health
Ethnicity beyond the Rubicon (Ongoing)	Fabio Saccoccio	Italy	Identities and Empires Society and mobility Methodologies of Interpretation
Excavation of the early prehistoic copper mine at Monte Loreto (Past)	Mark Pearce	Italy
Fall of the House of Constantine (Past)	George Woudhuysen	Europe	Identities and Empires Methodologies of Interpretation
Georgia historical ice core project (Caucasus) (Past)	Chris Loveluck	Georgia (Caucasus Mountains)	Environment, bodies and health Identities and Empires Society and mobility
Glass beads from Viking burials on Gotland (Past)	Julian Henderson	Gotland, Sweden	Methodologies of Interpretation
Glass from the Late Bronze Age ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil (Past)	Julian Henderson	Chogha Zanbil, Iran	Heritage from local to global Methodologies of Interpretation
Historical ice cores (Colle Gnifetti) (Past)	Chris Loveluck	Switzerland (Alps)	Environment, bodies and health Identities and Empires Society and mobility
Hittite glass from Kaman and Buklukale, Anatolia (Past)	Julian Henderson	Central Anatolia	Heritage from local to global
Landscape, environment and ancient industry in Islamic al-Raqqa (Past)	Julian Henderson	Syria	Heritage from local to global
LatinNow (Past)	Alex Mullen	Europe	Heritage from local to global Identities and Empires Society and mobility
Maritime Silk Road glass project	Julian Henderson	Cham Island, Vietnam	Heritage from local to global Identities and Empires Methodologies of Interpretation
Migration narratives: an archaeological perspective (Past)	Hannah O'Regan	UK	Society and mobility
Must Farm (Past)	Julian Henderson	Peterborough, UK	Heritage from local to global Methodologies of Interpretation
Norwich houses and households, c.1350-1700 (Past)	Chris King	UK	Heritage from local to global
Of fire, ice and people (Past)	Chris Loveluck	UK	Environment, bodies and health Identities and Empires Society and mobility
Rethinking Mycenaean death: A view from Laconia (Past)	Chrysanthi Gallou	Greece
Sensing divinity (Past)	Mark Bradley	Europe
Silk Road project (Past)	Julian Henderson	Eurasia	Heritage from local to global Identities and Empires Methodologies of Interpretation
Tattershall Castle: Building a history (Past)	Chris King	UK	Heritage from local to global
Tiny archaeologies (Past)	Chrysanthi Gallou	Greece	Identities and Empires
Translating the Scholia Vetera to the Iliad into English (Past)	Oliver Thomas	Greece	Methodologies of Interpretation
Virtual Venta: Developing immersive experience at Caistor Roman Town (Past)	William Bowden	UK	Heritage from local to global Methodologies of Interpretation