Dissertations by graduating students of the programme are lodged in the National Art Library at the V&A Museum and the Royal College of Art Library where they can be consulted by members of the public. Please email the Library for more information.

MA:
Carrie Barocas: 'The Reuse of Hollywood Backlots and Sets: A Case Study of MGM’s Art Department and the Design of Films from the Mid-1930s to the Mid-1950s'
Stephanie Benjamin: 'Power Dressing and Corporate Femininity in 1980s Britain'
Elizabeth Bisley: 'Material Movement: Shaping Space in British Holiday Camp Design 1936–51'
Giulia Bonali: 'Camilla Magalotti: An Insight into Widowhood in Early Seventeenth-century Florence'
Kimberley Chandler: 'The Eiffel Tower and Ferris Wheel: Transfixed Immobility and the Performance of the Modern in the Late Nineteenth Century'
Louise Collins: 'Unity in the Arts: The Relationship between Walter Crane’s Political Philosophy, Ideals in Art and Role as an Educator'
Emma Davenport: 'Oxfam and the Unselfish Shop 1948–2008'
Carly Eck: ‘Made in California: Women’s Play-Clothes, 1936–1959'
Kathryn Falla: 'Making Waves: The Penetration of Electromagnetic Radiation into British Life, 1945–1970'
Dorothy Fallon: 'Displaying Rocks: Science, Shopping and the Sublime'
Catherine Gregg: 'Beastly Encounters With Moderns: Animals, Architecture & Interiors, c. 1920–1939'
Maya Rae Oppenheimer: 'Placing Historical Re-enactment: Materiality, Authenticity and the Construction of a Re-enactment Tradition in Britain, 1839–2008'
Elizabeth Simpson: 'Mass in the Attic: English Catholic Material Culture as a tool in the Formation and Expression of Historic, Religious and National Identity'
Jeanie Sinclair: 'Crysede: The Fabric of Conservative Modernity'
Spike Sweeting: 'Taking Stock: Smithfield and Butchery in Hanoverian London'
Neil Taylor: ‘The ancien régime dies hard in England’: The Place of Luxury in the People’s War'
Donald P. White: 'Elaboration: Artisans and Information in the Devon Parish 1450–1550'
Miranda Zahedieh: 'On Living in an Old City: Bricolage and Adaptive Reuse in London 1977–1985'

MPhil:
Laura Elliott: 'The Victoria and Albert Museum, "Modern" Design and Audiences: the New Art Display of 1901 and Britain Can Make It Exhibition of 1946'
Claire Leighton: 'Strawberry Hill in the Mid-nineteenth Century'

PhD:
Miya Itabashi: 'The Reception of Japanese Prints and Printmaking in Britain, 1890s –1930s'

MA:
Charlotte Austin: 'State, Spectacle and Design: Tournament Construction and the Princely Image in Jacobean England'
Mora Bendesky: 'Shaping the Peronist Kid. The Giving of Toys byPeron’s Regime in Argentina, 1946–55'
Natalie Brooks: 'Black Magic: Totalitarian Fashion in 1930s Britain'
Elizabeth Clark: ‘Noysome and Unsavoury Discourse’. Privies, Close Stools and Chamber Pots and the Cultural Context in England, 1550–1650'
Nuno Caldas Coehlo: 'The Swedish Model. From aids for the handicapped to Design for all'
Phillip Gibb: “A Man who believed in it, is insistent, and can at the same time handle committees”. Frederick Gibberd and the Mediation of Modern Architecture in Britain, 1930–1956'
Emily Hall: 'Designed Spontaneity: Producing the Moment. The UK Pop Festivals, 1967–1977'
Lauren Porter: 'Designing the Jubilee: The Material culture of the Sixteenth-Century Holy Years'
Victoria Powell: 'A Man’s Space: Conformity and Individuality in the Middle-Class Home in Britain 1860-1910'
Katrina Ramsey: 'Inside and Outside. The Seventeenth Century English Garden'
Prudence Richardson: 'Doors and Doorknockers: A Way to Renaissance Venetian Culture'
Constanze von Unruh: 'Wool, War and Design: Export of Woollen Textiles in the Transwar Years 1935–1950'
Thomas Wilson: 'An Interruption on the Wall. Political Posters in an Age of Mass Media, 1965–75'

MPhil:
Robert Barker: 'Style Transmission: Rococo Silver and Colonial Jamaica'
Ana Beatriz da Rocha Ferreira e Silva:  '…. And the Tate become Modern – discourses of urban regeneration and cultural tourism as agents in shaping a new identity'

PhD:
Lisa Godson: 'Ceremonial Culture in the Irish Free State, 1922–1939'

MA:
Natasha Awais-Dean: 'Healing in Open Isolation: The Lazzareto and the Plagues of 1576 and 1630'
Olivia Fryman: 'The pleasures of play: the material culture of card games in Eighteenth Century England'
Ellie Herring: 'Framing spaces: three perspectives on London’s South Bank Centre'
Hannah Kauffman: ‘Dressing for Show: Costume in Spectacular Ballet, 1884–1914’
Jessica Kelly: 'Positive Health: The Design of Hospital Buildings and Health Education Material in England During the 1930s'
Teleri Lloyd-Jones: 'Growing, Cooking and Eating in the Long Eighteenth Century’
Olivia Lowrey: 'A Study of Courtrooms, 1580 to 1680'
Helena Nicholls: 'Healing and Harming: Instruments of Surgery, Torture and Punishment in Early-modern England'
Victoria Nutt: 'Making Progresses with the Queen'
Young Shin Park: 'Branding the Museum: Culture and Commercialism in the UK since the 1980s'
Katherine Parkins: 'Júbilos de Lima y Fiestas Reales: Representing the Sapa Incas in the City of Kings'
Samantha Safer: 'Promotion Queen: Lady Duff Gordon'
Takeharu Sato: 'Happy Obsessive Youth in Tokyo Since the late 1980s'
Ed Town: 'Artisanal London 1570-1630. Community and Practice in the Metropolis'

PhD:
Harriet Atkinson: 'Spontaneous Expressions of Citizenship: Festival of Britain in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, 1951'
Amanda Girling-Budd: 'Holland and Sons, a Nineteenth Century Cabinet-Making Firm and its Clients, 1835–1885'
Aisling Molloy: 'The Effects of British Design Policy and Education in late 19th Century Dublin: With Specific Reference to Ceramic Designer Frederick Vodrey (1845–97)'

MA:
Julie Aveline: 'Branding Europe? Branding, Design and Post-national Loyalties'
Clare Barry: 'Victorian Pier Design 1860–1900'
Martin Cahill: 'The Symbols of the G.A.A. in Ireland 1884-2005'
Louisa Collins: 'Elite Women, Writing and Furniture 1750–1800'
Andrew Cookson: 'Early English Inventors Patenting prior to the foundation of the Royal Society'
Anja Cronberg: 'Second-Hand Clothing and Vintage Style, since 1960-Today'
Miguel Estima: 'The Metallurgic Factory Alba 1921–1960'
William Evetts: 'The Sixteenth-century Apse at Saint-Pierre, Caen: Ornament and Cultural Transmission during the first French Renaissance'
Katherine Feo: 'Resurrecting the Dead: Representations of American Civil War History to Popular American Audiences, 1990–2005'
Dominique Heyse-Moore: 'Can the "Costly Mulatress" Speak? Afro-French Creole Dress in Representations of ‘Race’ in Nineteenth-century Trinidad'
Rachel King: 'Material Culture and the Construction of Ancestry, Legacy and the Self in the life of Bernardo Vecchietti (1514–1590)'
Sarah Owens: 'Generation Jetzt / A German Youth Magazine and its Readers'
Fanny Paragot: (Referred from 2005) 'The Material Culture of the Dominican Observants at San Marco in the Renaissance'
Catherine Putnam: 'Reliquaries in Renaissance Umbria'
Danielle Sprecher: 'One Moment You’re Naked and the Next You’re Dressed: Lavalavas in Polynesia and New Zealand, c.1800–2005'
Matthew Storey: 'Maiolica Tile Pavements in Italy 1470–1520'
Elaine Tierney: 'Playing with Fire: Fireworks and Public Festival in London 1660–1697'
Nitzan Waisberg: 'An Epistemological Perspective on Design Discourse in the Twentieth Century'

MPhil:
Maria Sachetti: 'The Presence of Absence: Minimalism in Fashion'
Alan Sawyer: 'Gothic to Roman. The Diffusion of Humanistic Letter forms in Sixteenth-Century England'

PhD:
Alison Fitzgerald: 'The Production and Consumption of Goldsmiths' Work in Eighteenth-century Dublin'

MA:
Johanna Agerman: 'The Vibrator – Performing Self'
Eleni Bide: 'Men and Jewellery in Victorian Britain'
Teresa Collenette: 'Scissors as a Social Tool in the Hands of Women: The Role of Women in the Production and Consumption of Scissors in Sheffield between 1850 and 1914' 
Leon Conrad: 'A Veil of Mystery: A Study of English Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Woven and Embroidered Textile Bookbindings' 
Rachel Fuller: 'Out of sight, out of mind? The meaning of the linnenkast in the material and conceptual landscape of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic' 
Lyanne Holcombe: 'Lyons Brand: The Design and Consumption of the Corner House Experience' 
Loraine Long: 'Actuality and Artifice: Representations of Space and Gender within the Cosy Corner' 
Marie-Anne Michaux: 'Private Armouries: Arms and Armour in the Parisian domestic interior (1515–1547)' 
Frances Nayegon: 'People, Places and Things: The Material Culture of Quattrocento Roman Sumptuary Laws' 
Susanna Pell: 'Sponsorship: Experiential Branding' 
Masaru Shima: 'Art and Industry; Modernisation of Kogei' 
Nadine Stares: 'Cache-toi Objet: The Dematerialisation of the Object, 1952–1972' 
Veronica Tierney: 'The Symbolism of the Roof in English domestic architecture: a function beyond ‘function.’ 
Nancy White: Packaging Dreams : 'A study of Crabtree and Evelyn'

PhD:
Trevor Keeble: 'The Domestic Moment: Design, Taste and Identity in the late Victorian Interior'
Victoria Kelley: 'Soap and Water: Cleanliness, Class and Gender, 1870–1914'

MA:
Deepika Ahlawat: 'The Production and Consumption of Aesthetic Illusion in the Prestige Economy: A Study of Swarovski Crystal'
Jane Alexander: 'Possessions of Irish Emigrant Women and the Material Evocation of "Chain Migration", 1880–1920'
Lulu Dyer: 'London’s East End: Shopfronts in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century'
Jane Eade: 'Triptych Portraits in England 1575–1646'
Marina Emmanouil: 'At Last, Now in Greece! Greek Advertising and America 1955–1975'
Corinna Gardner: 'The Museum as Shop/The Shop as Museum' 
Melissa Hamnett: 'Fashioning a Self: Issues of Identity Surrounding Women’s Dress in England 1590–1640'
Hawksmoor Hughes: 'Balsa Wood & Plastic Bags: A Study of Self-build Housing 1975–2000'
Denise Ko: 'The Material Culture of Wedding Ritual in Sixteenth- century Rome'
Giorgia Mancini: ’Roma nihil possidet magnificentius, nihil admirabilius: The Museum of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi'
Angelica Pediconi: 'The Art and Culture of Bathing in Renaissance Rome'
Molly Rumbelow: 'The Victorian Revival: Collecting and Collectors'
Catherine Strongman: 'Masks & Voices: The Ambiguous Relationship between the Public and Private in the Gropius House'
Diana Taylor: 'The Impact of Eighteenth Century British Dissenter Entrepreneurs on the Design of Norwich Worsted Textiles'
Colleen Terry: 'European Grand Hotels and their American Guests, 1865–1914'
Rachel Woods: ‘All is not Roses: Eddy Squires 1940–1995'

MPhil:
Inger Sarin: 'Oil-cloth, Wachstuch and Toile Ciree: The Floorcloth, its Origin, European Connections and Place in the 18th-century London Interior'

PhD:
Quintin Colville: 'The role of material culture in constructing class related identities among male Royal Naval personnel 1930–1960'
James Lindow: 'Magnificence and Splendour: The Palace in Renaissance Florence'

MA:
Jennifer Birnbaum: 'The Noise of Things: approaching sound in Design History'
Gareth Cheeseman: 'Imaginative Geography: Reproduction of Empire'
Judith Cox: ‘Evolving Spaces: An Exploration of the Brunswick Centre
Emma Crabtree: 'Ideal Homes? Designing and Consuming the British Mobile Home, 1955–1980'
Jackie Hawkins: 'The Odd Couple: Unravelling the Relationship between Architect and Structural Engineer'
Sophie Heath: 'The Mastery of Process: The Development of the Reduced Lustre in the Studio Pottery of Alan Caiger-Smith'
Helen Jacobsen: 'The Impact of Embassy: Sir Henry Wotton as Cultural Intermediary, 1604–1625'
Anna-Lisa Jensen: 'The Mirror as Decorative Form in Renaissance Italy'
Laurie Lindey: 'Edward Traherne: A Study of the Furniture Trade in Restoration London'
Caroline Maddox: 'Spectacle and Indulgence at the Court of Charles II: The Costume Accounts of Calisto'
Alice McEwan: 'Dome Sweet Dome: Patterns of Use and Responses to the Glass Shade in the Victorian Period'
Mercedes Mumford: 'From Sarnath to Selfridges: The Consumption of the Buddha in Contemporary London Department Stores'
Mark Thompson: 'For Men At Ease: Leisure Shirts, Lifestyles and Masculinities in Post-war England, 1946–1965'
Philippa Townsend: 'Eleni Zompolides: '(1880–1958), Lettering Artist and Book Designer: A Life and Work'
Zoe Whitley: 'Funky Afro Chicks: Charting Representations of ‘Blackness’ in Vogue, 1966–2002'

PhD:
Deborah Landis: 'Scene and Not Heard: The Role of Costume in the Cinematic Storytelling Process'
Viviana Narotzky: 'An Acquired Taste: The Consumption of Design in Barcelona, 1975–1992'

MA:
Gerdina Anderson: 'Seat Design on the London Bus in Interwar Britain'
Diana Andrews: 'Loadstone of the North: The Icelandic journals of William Morris'
Emily Angus: '"With this ring…" The Mystical Union: English betrothal and wedding rings, 1534-1653'
Antonia Brodie: 'Correspondence Culture: The Materiality and Practice of Letter-writing in England, 1650–1720'
Karianne Fogelberg: 'Updating the Looks of Socialism: Dressing Workers and Consumers in East Germany, 1957–1977'
Sarah Gaskin: 'Everything But the Kitchen Sink? The Material Culture of Victorian Women’s Travel, 1840–1900'
Sophie Johnson: 'Architecture for the Community: Is Greenwich Millennium Village a Blue-print for Future Housing Developments?'
Josephine Kane: 'Mechanical Dreams: The Construction of a Modern Pleasure Complex. Dreamland, Margate, 1920–1960'  Claire Longworth: 'From Plain to Posh: The Interior Design of Steam Powered Passenger Liners in the Victorian Period'
Helen McCormack: 'Women’s Industries: Philanthropy, Display and Suffrage in the Women’s Sections at Glasgow’s International Exhibitions 1888 and 1901'
Alison McDonald: 'Mobile Geographies of Taste: The Ice Cream Van on the Streets of Britain, 1950–1980'
Anna Moran: 'Manufacturing Mythology: Waterford Glass in the Early 19th Century'
Junko Mori: 'Modern Seating, Modern Sitting: Japanese Women and the Use of the Chair in the 1920s and 1930s'
Helen Voce: 'Contemporary London Craft and Design Studio Provision'

MPhil:
Elizabeth Audas: 'Reflections of Modernity Shop Display 1930–1940'

PhD:
John Cross: 'Furniture in Colonial Jamaica 1700–1830'

MA:
Kate Forde: 'Celluloid Dreams: The Marketing of Cutex in America, 1916–1935'
Anna Hamilton: 'The Elusive "Prince": Cardinal Faffaele Riario and Palazzo Della Cancelleria
James Hinton: 'By Sale, By Gift: Aspects of the Sale, Bequest and Consumption of Goods in Late16th-century Venice'
Claire Jones: 'Material Catholicism, Holy Week in Seville, Spain, 1931–1951: Resurrecting Tradition'
Eszter Karpati: 'The Politics and Poetics of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London'
Joanne Lewis: 'Vision for Britain: The NHS, The Optical Industry and Spectacle Design, 1946–1986'
Tom Lipscomb: 'Pubs Fit for Heroes: The Improved Licensed Refreshment House as Built on London County Council Estates, 1918–1939'
Sonoko Monden: 'A Study of Yamanaka and Co.: Oriental Art Collecting, 1893–1945'
Anne Morgan-Gan Sayers: 'The Gentlemen’s Tailors, 1756–1767'
Barbara Perata: Fashioning Masculinity in Man about Town, 1953–1967'
Kim Smith: 'Genteel Tourism: An Exploration of 18th-century Identity'
Chiara Strigini: 'Space for Healing: Hospitals and Doctors’ Studies in Renaissance Milan'
Luisella Stroebele: '"Windows Which Open Wide": A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, 1977'

MPhil:
Line Pedersen: 'The Design of Art Nouveau Jewellery in Denmark'

PhD:
Diane Bisson: 'Museums in Transition: Past and Present Interpretations of the Concept of Design'
Brenda King: 'Collections of Indian Silk Textiles and their Connection with the English Silk Industry between 1830 and 1930'
Nicholas Maffei: 'Designing the Image of the Practical Visionary: Normal Bel Geddes, 1893–1958'

MA:
Jacqueline Barber: 'Living with the Past: Antiques and the Middle-class Home 1870–1900'
Melanie Brooks: 'Fashion Illustration in Britain and New York, 1960–1988'
Debra Dawson: 'The Role of the British Fashion Doll in Girlhood 1937–1955'
Werner Freundel: 'The Production and Commissioning of London-made Private Carriages, 1740–1800'
Elizabeth Hannant: 'The Transition to Design as Narrative in New Dance'
Rachel Jardine: 'Culture of Cards: The Consumption of Playing Cards, 1558–1640'
Rhiannon Johns: 'Study of the Technology and Design of Renaissance Fountains in Italy and England, 1550–1640'
Emmie Kell: 'Fashion and the Felt Hat'
Neil Matthews: 'The Consumption of the Decorative Arts in the 16th-century Venetian Villa'
Ian McBain: 'Replica: The Social Consumption of Replica Football Shirts'
Catherine McDaniel: 'Christian Wilhelm: A 17th-century London Delftware Potter Julia Muir Printing Persuasion: Advertising Goods in 18th-century England'
Mary Sheehan: 'Issues of Cultural Representation and National Identity: Explored in the ‘Ballymaclinton’ Irish Village at the Franco-British Exhibition, Shepherd’s Bush, London, 1908'  Jemma Street: 'Preserved Intentions: Giulio Romano and An Album of Drawings for the Decorative Arts'
Maria Waldenvik: 'Personal Possessions in the Elizabethan University'
Catherine Wander: 'The Development of Private Libraries in England in the 16th and early 17th Centuries'
Ryszard Weselak: The Bathroom, 1880–1925
Julia Wheatley: 'Masks, Mores and "Momarie" in Renaissance Venice 
Evelyn Wilder: 'The Jacobite Legacy: The Development of the Scottish National Identity'

MA:
Mary Ann Bolger: 'Material Mourning: the Irish Catholic Memorial Card 1890–1988'
Marie-Louise Bowallius: 'The Origins and Professionalisation of Swedish Graphic Design 1930–1965'
Emma Gieben-Gammal: 'Gendered Space: Design and Display Strategies of British Hair Salons in the 1920s and 1930s'
Mary Guyatt: 'A Semblance of Home: Mental Asylum Interiors, 1880–1914'
Lisa Hockemeyer: 'The Birth of ‘Italianita’: A Nation’s Struggle with Modernity'
Michelle Jones: 'Design in the Monochrome Box: Television and the Modern Style, 1946–1962'
Emmanuelle Morgan: 'Aluminium Furniture: A Victim of Circumstance'
Kati Price: 'Form and Fetish: African Sculpture in the British Post-war Domestic Interior, 1945–1965'
Mellany Robinson: 'A Beast in the Parlour: Taxidermy and the 19th-century Middle-class Interior'
Lucy Trusler: 'The Material Culture of Childhood in Renaissance England' 
Itty Wickayachakom: 'Male Fragrance Packaging in the Late 20th Century'
Andrea Wulf: 'Vernacular Design: Its Role and Value for the History of Design'
Ergun Yildiz: 'Re-inventing the Sugar Bowl: Design for Industry and the Islamic Metalwork Collection in the South Kensington Museum, 1857–1890'

MA:
Fiona Anderson: 'Henry Poole and Co. Saville Row Tailors, 1861–1900'
Elizabeth Currie: 'A Florentine Family Wardrobe, 1566–1606' 
Hannah Ford: 'Modernism in Toy Design: The Story of Abbatt Toys 1932–1960'
Roberta Franceschetti: 'A Modern Renaissance: Revival Style in 19th-century Italy Through the Pages of the Magazine Arte italiana decorative e industriale'
Amanda Girling-Budd: 'Holland and Sons of London and Gillows of London and Lancaster: A Comparison of Two 19th-century Furnishing Firms'
Lisa Godson: 'The 31st International Eucharistic Congress, Dublin 1932'
Kyoko Hidaka: 'Gold and Silver Thread in Jacobean London 1603–1625' 
Bronwen Hiles: 'Women and Amateur Embroidery in Britain 1919–1939'
Helen Jones: 'Packaging Petroleum: A History of Petrol Station Design in Britain, 1955–1995'
Martin King: 'A Royal Fellowship of Death: Modernity and the Imperial War Graves Commission'
Laurence Mauderli: 'The Schweizerischer Werkbund and L’Oeuvre, Switzerland, Between Art and Industry 1913–1922' 
Andrea Peach: 'W.J. Bassett-Lowke and the Patronage of Modernist Design in England 1900–1939'
Elizabeth Sellars: 'With Designs on Japan: Japanese aesthetics in the British home 1980–1992'
Dimity Spiller: 'Knots of Desire: An Investigation into the Importing of Oriental Carpets into England 1581–1640'
Guy Turner: 'Economising on Possession: The Inventory of the Earl of Pembroke Dated 1561'
Susan Wilson: 'Walter Crane in Budapest'

MPhil:
Rick Poyner: 'Modernism and Eclectisism: Typographica,  1949–67'

PhD:
Christopher Breward: 'Manliness and the Pleasures of Consumption Masculinities, Fashion and London Life 1860–1914'
Jenniefer Salahub: 'Dutiful Daughter: Fashionable Domestic Embroidery in Canada and the British Model, 1764–1911.' 
Yasuko Suga Ida: 'Image Politics of the State: Visual Publicity of the General Post Office in Inter-war Britain'
Susan Weber Soros: 'E.W. Godwin: Secular Furniture and Interior Design'

MA:
Alice Beard: 'Design for Living: The Sunday Times Magazine 1962–1975'
Adrian Bland: 'Egyptian Influence on Wedgwood Design 1769–1978'
Anne Caron-Delion: 'The Material Culture of Menstruation: Tampax Marketing 1937–1970'
Bronwen Edwards: 'The Needle at War: Home-dressmaking 1939–1945'
Emma Ferry: 'Amenity and Simplicity: The Identity of the National Trust Holiday Cottage 1960–1995'
Lorna Goldsmith: 'Woollen Strategies: Hygiene, Reform and the Clothed Body – Some Themes Relating to a Short History of Jaeger, 1880–1914'
Trevor Keeble: 'Everyday Wrappings. A Mediated Message of Domestic Design Reform: Woman Magazine 1952–1956'
Stephen Kent: 'The Pictorial Cover: Marketing Paperback Books 1960–1970'
Maren Nelson: 'Sitting Machines for Living Machines: The Evolution of Ergonomics, Office Chairs and Work in the 20th Century'
Samantha Pile: 'Great Expectations: Motherhood, Modernity and Dress for Pregnancy in Inter-war Britain'
Carol Tulloch: 'Fashioned in Black and White: Women’s Dress in Jamaica 1880–1907'
Melanie Unwin: 'A Woman’s Work? Gender and Authorship, The Watts’ Chapel and the Home Arts and Industries Association'

PhD:
Darron Dean: 'The Design, Production and Consumption of English Lead-glazed Earthenware'

MA:
Dipti Bhagat: 'Buying More than a Diamond: South Africa at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886'
Frank Cartledge: 'The Fashion of Violence: The Football Casual 1979–1984'
Jacqueline Durran: 'Costume as Narrative: Appearance and Character in the Costume Design of British film'
Maria Georgaki: 'A Nation of Good Children: Two Greek Readers and Greek Society in the Post-war Period'
Mia Hatgis: 'Selling Childhood: The Merchandising of Toys in the American Department Store 1860–1929'
Emma Hardy: 'Flora Domestica: Plants in the British Domestic Interior 1840–1880'
Grace Lees: 'The Process of Meaning: Alessi in Britain 1980–96'
Jean McIntyre: 'Irish Country House Accommodation 1985–1995: The Expectation and the Realisation of a Hidden Ireland'
Sarah Milan: 'Refracting Progress: Consumption of Gas Lighting in the Domestic Sphere'
Alistair O’Neil :‘"Uno cappucchino, no froth": The Material Culture of Italianicity in Post-war London 1945–1965'
Alice Twemlow: 'Ready Steady Go! The Evolution of a Televisual Pop-graphic Language'
Louise Ward: 'Fabricating Tradition: Interior Decoration and an Ideal of the English Country House'

MPhil:
David Attwood: 'Worlds in a Box: Technology and Culture in 1950's British Radio Design'

PhD:
Elizabeth Atkinson: 'The Formative Years: The Evolution of Photography's Role in British Periodical Advertising During the 1920s and 1930s'
Amin Jaffer: 'Furniture in British India 1750–1830' 

MA:
Hannah Andrassy: 'Smart but Casual: Masculinity and the Modernisation of Men’s Fashion, 1930–1950'
Isabelle Cartier: 'The Englishness of European Secular Silver 1760–1850: A Case Study of Holland and France'
Stephen Escritt: 'Designing the State for the Public Good? The Role of the British State in the Design of Furniture and Interiors 1945–1970'
Sarah Foster: 'Going Shopping in Georgian Dublin: Luxury Goods and the Negotiation of National Identity'
Clive Hilton: 'Modernity and the Material Culture of Lawn Tennis in England 1874–1930'
Lisa Hirst: 'The Fashionable Housewife: Dress, Femininity and Marriage in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1951–1965'
Celia Joicey: 'Distinctively British: The Training of the Textile Designer 1945–1960'
Eleanor John: '"The China Here is Lovely": The Acquisition of French Luxury Goods by the British in the 18th Century'
Victoria Kelley: 'The Equitable Consumer: Shopping at the Co-op in Manchester, 1885–1914'
Ann Kelly: 'The Affluent Urban Interior in Contemporary Bombay'
Ruth Levy: 'GUI and WYSIWYG: A History of Graphic Design Software, 1984–1994'
Kate McIntyre: 'BIBA: Design, Identity and the Pleasure of Consumption'
Katherine Sharp: 'Conchology and Creativity: The Rise of Shell Work in 18th-century England'

MA:
Elizabeth Boggis: 'That Was Tomorrow: Designing Modernity in Science Fiction Films'
Darron Dean: 'Wrotham Pottery: An Analysis of Vernacular Ceramics in South-east England, 1600–1740'
Alison Harry: 'Representations of Women at International Exhibitions 1893–1908'
Mark Holgate: 'Couture and Culture on the News Stand: Vogue and Harpers Bazaar 1945–1960'
Scott Oram: ‘Common Sense Contemporary: The Ideals and Realities of the Popular Domestic Interior in the 1950s' 
Rebecca Preston: ‘Our Chief Hobby: The Design and Culture of English Suburban Gardens in the 1920s'
Leonard Rau: 'Deregulation and Design: The Role of Design in Creating an Airline’s Image, 1975–1991'
Kevin Rogers: 'The Art and Mystery of the Upholder: The London Upholstery Trade, 1667–1721'
Benedict Weaver: 'Habitat Designs Limited: Lifestyle Retailing and the Media, 1963–1973'

MA:
John Cross: 'Against the Grain: The Trading and Supplying of Timber in London from 1670 to 1730'
Elizabeth Fleming: 'Staples for Genteel Living: The Exportation of English Household Furnishings to Charleston, South Carolina During the 18th Century'
Ambrose Hogan: 'Power and Glory: Coventry Cathedral and the Choice of Contemporary Design 1940–1962'
William Hoon: 'The Design of Post-war English Professional Football and its Material Culture'
Emily King: 'Taking Credit: Film Title Sequences 1955–65' 
Frederika Launert: 'Design in Glass: Stourbridge During the 1950s' 
Susie McKellar: 'American Handguns and Handguns in America'
Margaret Ponsonby: 'Provincial Homemaking 1825–1850'
Minna Thornton: 'The Fashion Plate in London 1960–1809' 
Mareike von Spreckelsen: 'Designed for Animals? The Architectural Redevelopment of London Zoo 1956–1976' 
Elizabeth Wailes: 'Home-Dressmaking 1955–1965'
Claire Walsh: 'Shop Design and the Display of Goods in the 18th Century'

MA:
Elisabeth Bogdan: 'From Craftsman to Businessman: Ideological and Technological Conflicts within the American Ornamental Glass Manufacturing Sector 1905–1925'
Christopher Breward: 'Images of Desire: The Construction of the Feminine Consumer in Women’s Fashion Journals 1875–1900'
Paul Denison: 'Towards a French Industrial Design: Modernism and Modernisation in France 1945–1960'
Emma Dent: 'Coad Constructing a Nation: Architecture and Politics in Nationalist Spain 1939–1949'
Arlene Oak: 'The Beatles Album Covers 1963–1970'
Denis O’Driscoll: 'Drawing, Visual Thinking and Design: Orthographic Projection and its Role as a Visualisation Tool in the Design Practice of Furniture and Product Designers'
Emma Packer: 'Redefining the Goldsmith: The London Goldsmith Trade Seen through their Inventories 1694–1732'
Victoria Reed: 'Myth and the Modern Object, the Mini Reassessed: Alternative Readings of the Design and Promotion of the Austin Morris Mini 1959–1968'

PhD
Clive Edwards: 'Materials and Techniques and their Impact on Furniture Manufacture in the 19th Century'
Elizabeth McKellar: 'Architectural Practice for Speculative Building in Late 17th-century London'

MA:
Judith Aston: 'The Emergence of the ‘New Jewellery’ in Holland, Britain and Germany in the 1970s'
Anthony Hoyte: 'Isokon Unrealised: An Examination of the Projects Undertaken by Walter Gropius for the Isokon Company, 1934–1937'
Adam Levy: 'Projecting America: The Impact of American Modernity in Great Britain 1945–1960'
Lindsey Moore: 'Faking It: The Role of the Film Designer in Recreating the Past'
Jane Pavitt: 'The Georgians and the Moderns: Preservation and Modernism in Britain in the 1930s'
Linda Sandino-Taylor: 'Craft for CRAFTS’ Sake: From Counterculture to Subculture' 
Jonathan Shaw: 'Uppark – Past, Present and Future'
Paul Springer: 'Framing Design: What Happened to Design in the 1980s When it Went Through the TV Cameras'
Jonathan Sweet: 'Australia at British Exhibitions, 1851–1900' 
Melanie Tomlinson: 'Defining and Designing Electricity in Victorian London 1878–1892'
Fiona Walmsley: 'Pragmatism and Pluralism: The Design of the ‘Queen Mary’ 1928–1939'
Shelagh Wilson: 'Art into Industry: The Attempt to Unify Art with Manufacturing in the Birmingham Jewellery Trade 1880–1914'

PhD:
Graham McLaren: 'The Colleges and the Industry – Ceramic Design Education 1945-1965: Perspectives and Policies' 

MA:
Alison Clarke: 'Tupperware: The Product as Social Relation in the 1950s'
David Crowley: 'The Phoenix and the Eagle: Nationalism in Polish Design and Culture in the Period between the Two World Wars'
Tom Flynn: 'Bronze and Ivory Figures of the 1920s and 1930s' 
Lynn Griffiths: 'Dressmaking in the Inter-war Period'
Fiona Hackney: 'Ideology, Art and Industry: the Curwen Press, 1920–1930' 
Denise Hagströmer: 'Swedish Design Exhibitions 1917–1931: Britain’s Intimation of Valhalla'
Michael Horsham: 'Taste – Elements of Meaning: Aesthetic Judgement in the 18th Century'
Nicholas Shaddick: 'Beautifying the Beast: The Aesthetics, Design and Display of British Railway Locomotives, 1870–1914'
Justin Sluce: 'The History of a Reclining Chair from the 1920s to the Present: An Object and its Images'
Holly Tebbutt: 'Industry or Anti-Industry? The Rural Industries Bureau, Its Objects and Work in the Inter-war Period'
Susannah Walker: 'Contemporary/Moderne: British Mass-produced Tableware of the 1950s'

PhD:
Helen Saxbee: 'An Orient Exhibited: The Exhibition of the Chinese Collection in England in the 1840s'

MA:
Ray Batchelor: 'The Fish and Chip Shop: A Design History from Victorian Times in to the Inter-war Years, and Beyond'
Julia Bigham: 'Designers and Art Directors Association in the 1960s as a Reflection of Changing Attitudes to Graphic Design and Advertising' 
Deirdre Campion: 'Manifestations of a Nation: Ireland – Exhibitions and Symbols, 1850–1950'
Harriet Dover: 'Make or Mar? Utility Furniture, Socialism and Design, 1941–1951'
Benedict Evans: 'The Cultural Significance of Nightclubs: Establishing an Arena of Creativity’
Elizabeth Farrelly: 'Design Journalism: The Production of Definitions'
Sarah Gaventa: 'The 1992 Euro-Odyssey and the Future of British Design Consultancies in European Markets'
Clare Higgins: 'The Spitalfields Silk Industry in the Mid-19th Century'
Guy Julier: 'The Politics of Industrial Design in Catalonia, 1961–1988'
Andrew Popp: 'An Illusion of Revolution? Theories of Industrialisation and the Development of the Ceramic Trade of North Staffordshire in the 18th Century'
Susan Robinson: 'Archeology of Tomorrow? British Architecture and Interior Design in Japan in the 1980s'
Carolyn Sargentson: 'The Merchants of Luxury Goods in 18th-century Paris'
Julia Smith: 'English Furniture in 18th-century Philadelphia' 
Dominic Stone: 'The Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung: Ideology and Methodology'
Johanne Vincent: 'Issues in Building Practice as Reflected in Journals between 1834–1844: With Special Emphasis on The Builder' 
Kate Woodhead: 'Muriel Rose and the Little Gallery: Promoting the Crafts in the 1920s and 1930s'

PhD:
Helen Clifford: 'A Study of an 18th-century Goldsmithing Business with Particular Reference to the Garrard Ledgers, 1760–1766'

MA:
Clive Edwards: 'Stimulus and Response: An Investigation into Changes in the Furniture Industry between 1880-1920, with a Case Study on the High Wycombe Industry'
Malcolm Ferris: 'Art and the Computer: An Enquiry into the Relationships between Technology, Art and Culture, in the Post-war Period'
Claudia Kinmouth: 'Irish Vernacular Furniture 1840-1940: A Neglected Aspect of the History of Design'
Caroline Pullee: 'Gab of the Gift Trade: The Role of Design in the Marketing and Retailing of Contemporary Jewellery'
Alyson Webb: 'Studies in the Design and Production of Contemporary Women’s Magazines in the 1980s'
Rhiannon Williams: 'Needlework Sublime: Debates Surrounding Ecclesiastical Embroidery Design, 1840–1880' 

MA:
Craig Allen: 'Contemporary Designer-Maker Furniture in Britain: With Case Studies of Current Practice'
Claire Catterall: 'From plastics to Plastic: A Study of the Image and Application of Plastics within the Context of the Taste Debate in Post-war Britain 1945–1963'
Eleanor Gawne: 'Style and Ideology: The National Projection of Great Britain in the Empire Exhibitions of the 1920s'
Mary Godwin: 'A Study of the Cultural Identity of Aids for the Disabled: The Role of Design and Designers, with Case Studies of the Wheel-chair and the Hearing Aid'
Rachel Gotlieb: 'The Critical Language and Aesthetic Criteria of Art-Pottery Manufacturers and Studio-Potters in Britain in the Period 1914–1934'
Kathy Hogan: 'A Woman’s Place - From Conception to Consumption: Design and Ideology in the All-electric Kitchen in Britain, 1880–1938'
Richard Leveridge: 'Creating the Contemporary – Sources of Popular Modernity in Britain in the 1950s: A Study of the Idea of "the contemporary" at the Festival of Britain, Time Through Artefacts and Ideas'
Hugh Tisdale: 'British Newspaper Typography: Some Perspectives on Historical Context and the Implications of Changing Technology in the Present Day'
Elizabeth Wilkinson: 'Bridging the Gap: Design History and Design Practice in the Making of the Modern Office'
Jane Withers: 'The Boutique – Fashion Retail in a Cultural Context 1955 to the Present Day: With Special Reference to the 1960s "boutique" and 1980s "Galleria"' 

MA:
Pernille Ahlstrom: 'The American Concept of the Modern in the Early 1930s: The Home Planning Group at the Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933–1934'
Caroline Aish: 'In the Wood Way: An Examination of Approaches to the 18th-century Furniture and Fittings of the Mansion House' 
Michael Billam: 'The Cabinet Maker and Complete House Furnisher: An Analysis of the Magazine as a Commentator on Developments within the British Furniture Trade, 1920–1939' 
Victoria Broackes: 'Exhibitions and Design Reform in Britain 1915–1946: The Historical Context and Organisation for Change' 
Miriam Dalton: 'Youth Culture Magazines – Genesis and Revelations: An Analysis, Based on Semiotic Approaches, From the 1950s Onwards'
Moira Fraser: 'Steele British Furniture in the Paris Exhibition of 1900: Reactions to "Art Nouveau" – pro and contra'
Nicholas Oddy: 'Brilliant Signs – Researches into an Estuary of Mainstream Advertising: Being a Survey of the Manufacture and Distribution of British Decorated Glass Advertising Items in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries'  

MA:
Sophia de Falbe: 'James Shoolbred & Co – The Late Victorian Department Store: Concentrating on the Period 1874–1900, and the Design and Retailing of Furniture'
Mark Wadhwa: 'A. H. Mackmurdo: A Pioneer Evolutionary Designer and Social Theorist'
Janice West: 'W. A. S. Benson and the ‘Combined Arts’: Design and Ideology in the Arts and Crafts Movement, With Special Reference to Metalwork'

MA:
Anne Channon: 'R. D. Russell, Designer for Industry'
Catherine Ellis: 'Lace Curtains and Raschel Nets: Design and Production in a Declining 19th-century Industry'
Marion Hundleby: 'Community Schools – Design for a Changing Society: The Development of Ideals for Community Education in Britain, 1920–1980'
Richard Riddell: 'The Early Career and Publications of C. H. Tatham (1772–1842): With Special Reference to Ornamental Architecture and to his Drawings'
Victoria Thomas: 'The Designer’s Role in the Commercialisation of Gift Exchange: Changing Attitudes in the Gift Trade from the 19th to the 20th Centuries'