Research Students

Richard Dennis supervises doctoral students in the social and cultural geography of 19^th- and 20^th-century cities. He has extensive experience as external examiner for more than two-dozen doctoral theses in Britain, North America, Australia and South Africa. Since 2000, his own research students have included:

• Larry Cort (privately funded): ‘“This is the place for toil”: Neighbourhoods at Work in the Later Victorian Black Country’ (PhD awarded, 2001)

• Caroline Bressey (ESRC funded): ‘Forgotten Geographies: Spaces of Black Women’s Identity in Late 19^th-Century London’ (supervised jointly with Claire Dwyer) (PhD awarded, 2003)

• Sarah Glynn (ESRC funded): ‘The Home and the World: Bengali Political Mobilisation in London’s East End, and a Comparison with the Jewish Past’ (supervised jointly with Claire Dwyer) (PhD awarded, 2003)

• Clifford German (privately funded): ‘Property and Population Change in Northampton in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’ (ongoing)

• Charlotte Jones (ESRC funded): ‘A Social History of Turkish Baths in Victorian London’ (supervised jointly with James Kneale) (2008-)