The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Group offers a welcoming and stimulating environment for visiting research scholars and students. We have hosted a wide range of PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the past, for periods ranging from two weeks to several months. We welcome applications from those wishing to spend some time with us. If you are a PhD student, a postdoc or an academic and are interested in joining us for a research stay, please reach out to the member of the team you think will be best suited to hosting you and they will advise on how to proceed.
Some of the researchers we have hosted include:
- 2025 – António João Leitão Dos Santos (Universidade de Lisboa): PhD thesis, Imagining Hispania: Late Antique Views of the Iberian Peninsula and its Peoples (host: Jamie Wood)
- 2025 – Daniel Montiel (Universidad de Granada): PhD thesis on Christianity in eastern Baetica in Late Antiquity and the early medieval periods (host: Jamie Wood)
- 2024 – Elías Carballido González (Universidad de Oviedo): PhD thesis on gender and identity in early medieval local communities from comparative perspectives (host: Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo)
- 2023 – Dr Francisco Mamani-Fuentes (Institut français d’études andines, Paris): postdoctoral visiting fellow funded by ARTES-UK (host: Laura Fernández González)
- 2023 – Dr Oriol Dinarès-Cabrerizo (Universidad de Alcalá): Post-doc research grant, “Margarita Salas”, funded by Universitat de Barcelona on Visigothic queenship (host: Jamie Wood)
- 2021-2022 – Adria Naranjo Barnet (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja) (host: Erin Bell)
- 2018 – Nerea Fernandez Cadenas (Universidad de León): PhD thesis on the numerical pizarras (inscribed slates) from central and northern Iberia in Late Antiquity (host: Jamie Wood)
- 2018 – Tómas Cordero Ruiz (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa): postdoctoral fellow working on a project Change and continuity in rural late antique world. Comparative multidisciplinary approach to the territories of Egitania and Emerita (host: Jamie Wood)
- 2017 – Ignacio J. López Hernández (Universidad de Sevilla), postdoctoral visiting fellow working on Havana, Cuba and the French Antilles, especially the architecture and engineering of fortifications, funded by the Spanish government’s Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y el Empleo and ARTES-UK (host: Laura Fernández González)
- 2016-2017 – Nuria Navarro Sierra (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) (host: Erin Bell)