PhD Study Opportunities

Staff from the Centre are supervising PhD students in a range of different topics, and are willing to provide supervision in the following areas of research:

• All aspects of British maritime history from the Middle Ages to today.
• Business history and maritime trade.
• Port cities and communities.
• Mariners' welfare and education.
• Naval history from the Middle Ages to the present day, in particular, the connections between naval, political, social, economic and other histories.
• Naval leadership from the late-seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
• British naval administration and logistics.
• Mediterranean maritime history from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.
• African maritime history and African port cities.

Further details about Postgraduate Study at the University of Exeter are available from the Postgraduate study web pages.