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Research income: Recent awards include one Leverhulme Research Professorship, four Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships, one British Academy Fellowship, three AHRC Research Leave Awards, an AHRC collaborative doctoral award and three RCUK Research Fellowships.
Current number of academic staff: 22.
Current number of research students: 17.
Recent publications: The Persian Empire: a History; Egypt from Alexander to the Copts; Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle; Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams and Fragments; Martial: the world of the epigram; Silent Eloquence: Lucian and pantomime dancing; Ambrosiaster's Political Theology; on-line edition of the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias.
Partner organisations: British Museum
Classics Research
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
RAE score (2008): 30% of our research activity is 'world-leading' (4*), and 35% 'internationally excellent' (3*). The same Exercise rates our 'Research environment' 75% at 4* and 25% at 3*, and our 'Esteem indicators' 100% at 4*. Research income: Recent awards include one Leverhulme Research Professorship, four Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships, one British Academy Fellowship, three AHRC Research Leave Awards, an AHRC collaborative doctoral award and three RCUK Research Fellowships.
Current number of academic staff: 22.
Current number of research students: 17.
Recent publications: The Persian Empire: a History; Egypt from Alexander to the Copts; Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle; Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams and Fragments; Martial: the world of the epigram; Silent Eloquence: Lucian and pantomime dancing; Ambrosiaster's Political Theology; on-line edition of the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias.
Partner organisations: British Museum
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Dr Hugh Bowden
Duration
Expected to be: MPhil two years FT, three years PT. PhD three years FT, four-six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus; other University of London Colleges and Institutes.
Student destinations
Recent doctoral students of the department have gone on to full academic posts in the UK, the USA, and Greece, and to the Civil Service.
Year of entry 2012
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