Scholarships & Awards
The Ochs Scholarship was established in 1994 from a bequest by Maud Lillian Ochs, and is awarded annually by the British Archaeological Association for research projects which fall within the Association’s fields of interest. These are defined as the study of archaeology, art and architecture from the Roman period until the nineteenth century, principally within Europe. The scholarships are intended to provide post-graduate students striving to write up theses with late stage funding. To be eligible the thesis must be capable of completion within the period of the Scholarship, which is for one year from a nominated starting date by the end of the calendar year in which the scholarship is awarded. Thus, an application made in early 2023 might have a nominated starting date of October 2023 and result in the submission of a thesis by October, 2024. Applications where a substantial amount of fieldwork remains to be done are unlikely to succeed.
The next closing date for applications is 1 February, 2023.
Grants for research projects conducted either privately or under the umbrella of a larger organisation, such as a local history or archaeology society are also available.
Year | Winner | Title | Research |
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2022 | Olivia Croyle | The Metal Letter in Medieval London, 1100–1475 | Ph.D |
2022 | Susannah Kingwill | The Cross - Relic, Object, and Symbol at the Valois Courts During the Reigns of Charles V and VI of France (1360 to 1422) | Ph.D |
2021 | Christina Smith | The British High Cross to 1100: Context, Form Development | Ph.D |
2021 | Charlotte Wytema | Immaculate Propaganda? The Emergence, Function and Dissemination of the Virgin with Fifteen Symbols Imagery in Europe, 1500-1546 | Ph.D |
2020 | Alice Rose | Life in Medieval Cambridge: A Multi-Isotopic Analysis of Diet and Mobility | Ph.D |
2020 | Veronica Smith | Forgotten Glasswords: Secular Stained and Decorative Glass of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | Ph.D |
2019 | Costanza Beltrami | Reassessing the Late Gothic Master Mason: Juan Guas (active 1453–1496) and ‘Hispano-Flemish’ Architecture in Castile | Ph.D |
2019 | Penelope Coombe | Figural Sculpture in Roman Britain and its Continental Context | D.Phil |
2019 | Amanda Doviak | At Cross Purposes? Sacred and Secular Figural Iconography of the High Cross in the Northern Danelaw c. 850-1000 | Ph.D |
2019 | Nicola Lowe | Strategies for Commemoration amongst parish laity, c.1300-1350: Three Case Studies from Rural Oxfordshire | Ph.D |
2019 | Katie Harrison | Illuminating Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Fifteenth-century St Cuthbert Window at York Minster | Ph.D |
2018 | Sarah Cassell | Structure and Image in Late Medieval East Anglian Angel Roofs | Ph.D |
2018 | Sophie Kelly | Imagining the Unimaginable: The Iconography of the Trinity in England c.1000-c.1300 | Ph.D |
2018 | Anastasia Moskvina | Alignment and Axiality in Anglo-Saxon Architecture from the Sixth to the Ninth Centuries | Ph.D |
2017 | Rachel Delman | Elite Female Constructions of Power and Space in England, 1444-1541 | D.Phil |
2017 | Karen Brett | 'Spitting on an Angel, Trampling a Saint': Reading the English Medieval Tile Pavement | Ph.D |
2016 | Maeve O'Donnell-Morales | Castilian Altars and Altar Furnishings in the 13th and 14th Centuries | Ph.D |
2016 | Agata Gomolka | Petrified Passions: Bodily Rhetoric in Monumental Sculpture, 1100-1260 | Ph.D |
2016 | Marie-Helene Groll | Thomas and Drake and the Transatlantic Trade in Stained Glass | Ph.D |
2015 | Harriet Mahood | The Medieval Ecclesiastical Gatehouse: Design, Function and Context | Ph.D |
2015 | Lizzie Swarbrick | The Art and Architecture of the Collegiate Churches of Medieval Scotland c.1248 to c.1560 | Ph.D |
2014 | Michaela Zöschg | Rich Queens, Poor Clares: Space, Image and Audience in Royal Clarrisan Foundations in Late Medieval Europe | Ph.D |
2014 | Audrey Thorstad | The Role of Castles and Martial-Style Architecture in Early Tudor England, 1485-1547 | Ph.D |
2013 | Amanda Dotseth | San Quirce de Burgos: Piety and Patrimony | Ph.D |
2013 | Gabriel Byng | Parish Church Building and the Later Medieval Economy | Ph.D |
2013 | Philippa Turner | Devotional Images in the cathedrals of York and Durham c.1350-c.1540 | Ph.D |
2012 | Jana Gajdošová | A Podium for Ceremony: The Role of the Charles Bridge in Medieval Prague | Ph.D |
2012 | Helen Lunnon | Studies in Medieval English Church Porches | Ph.D |
2011 | James Snyder | A Study of the Mortars from the C4 Wall Constantinople | Ph.D |
2011 | Nivien Speith | Skeletal Evidence of Social Persona in C5-C7 Germany | Ph.D |
2011 | Emma Wells | Role of Art and Arch. in Med. Pilgrimage Experience | Ph.D |
2010 | Emily Guerry | The Martyrdom Murals in the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris | Ph.D |
2010 | Eleanor McCullough | Laypeople's Participation in Medieval Liturgy & Devotion | Ph.D |
2009 | Stefania Gerevini | Re-use of Byzantine Artworks in Medieval Italy | Ph.D |
2009 | Georges Kazan | Cults and Relics in Constantinople c. 330-843 | D.Phil |
2008 | Lydia Carr | Tessa Verney Wheeler: Women and Archaeology | D.Phil |
2008 | Dragan Mladenović | The Romanisation of the Province of Moesia Superior | D.Phil |
2008 | Simon Davies | Figurative Sculpture in 9th-12th-Century Constantinople | D.Phil |
2007 | Andreas Puth | Reconsidering Habsburg Representation c.1360-c.1490 | Ph.D |
2007 | Saskia Stevens | City Boundaries and Urban Expansion in Roman Italy | D.Phil |
2006 | Heather Gilderdale | The Stained Glass of Great Malvern Priory, c.1430-1501 | Ph.D |
2006 | Stephen Hanley | Function of optical devices in the art of Jan van Eyck | Ph.D |
2005 | Claudia Marx | Late Victorian Restoration at Peterborough Cathedral | Ph.D |
2005 | Mavis Nwokobia | Picturing Pompeii: Victorian Classical Painting 1860-1914 | Ph.D |
2005 | Agnieszka Sadraei | St Stanislaus and the Art of the Polish Kings 1200-1490 | Ph.D |
2004 | Thorsten Hanke | Post-medieval roof architecture in N-E Britain | M.Phil |
2003 | Liz Stewart | Historic Building Reconstruction since c.1877 | Ph.D |
2003 | Judith Cannell | Archaeology of Woodland Exploitation in Exmoor | Ph.D |
2002 | Jackie Hall | Croxden Abbey: Buildings and Community | Ph.D |
2001 | Zoë Opacič | The Emmaus Monastery and the Patronage of Charles IV | Ph.D |
2001 | Kate Welham | Compositional Homogeneity of Medieval Glass | Ph.D |
2000 | Duncan Givans | English Romanesque Tympana c.1050-c.1200 | Ph.D |
2000 | Abigail Wheatley | The Idea of the Castle in Late Medieval England | Ph.D |
1999 | William Bowden | The Archaeology of Late Antique Epirus | Ph.D |
1998 | Peter Hammond | Clay Pipe Manufacturing Industry of London | Ph.D |
1997 | Linda Ebbatson | Hist. of Archaeology: Context and Discourse 1845-1942 | Ph.D |
1997 | David Haycock | Intellectual Writings and Context of William Stukely | Ph.D |
1996 | Kathleen Lane | Architectural Sculpture in Romanesque England | Ph.D |
1996 | Julia Watson | Patrons and Sculptors in Late 14th-Century France | Ph.D |
1995 | Tim Ayers | The Painted Glass of Wells Cathedral | Ph.D |
1995 | Gill Chitty | John Ruskin and the Historic Environment | Ph.D |
1995 | Helen List | English Aristocratic tombs; Ecclesiastical and Secular | Ph.D |
1995 | David Williams | Corpus of Late Anglo-Saxon Stirrup Mounts | Ph.D |