PhD Funding Opportunity at Fishbourne Roman Palace
Windows Into Ancient Recycling At Fishbourne Roman Palace
We’re delighted to announce a fully-funded PhD opportunity for candidates interested in Roman glass. Newcastle University, in collaboration with Fishbourne Roman Palace and Butser Ancient Farm, invites applications for a PhD opportunity focused on cataloguing and publishing the luxury and everyday glass from the Roman Palace at Fishbourne.
The luxury and everyday glass from the Roman Palace at Fishbourne will for the first time be fully catalogued and published, with a particular focus upon the site’s exceptional collection of early window glass. This will address a pressing conundrum – the scale and nature of Roman recycling, and its impact upon our understanding of the economy – via a tailored ‘round-robin’ of techniques, from chemical analysis to experimental reconstruction.
Key transferable skills will be developed in examining this assemblage of manageable size yet major potential, addressing the question: are windows the missing piece to the puzzle of Roman glass recycling?
Full advertisement and application process including person specification and deadlines can be found here: http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/teaching/northernbridge/DuckworthChloe_NCL_Fishbourne+BAF.pdf
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Any questions about the application can be directed to Dr Chloe Duckworth (chloe.duckworth@ncl.ac.uk) and Dr Rob Collins (robert.collins@ncl.ac.uk).