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The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: evidence, memories, inventions
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme is driven by six linked projects incorporating some of the latest research in archaeology, genetics, history, linguistics, social psychology, and place-name studies.
Five post-doctoral research associates have been appointed to these projects.
Please see below for further information.
Post-doctoral Research Associates
Dr Turi King: Project Manager and Research Fellow
Dr Martin Findell
Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes
Dr Rita Rasteiro
Dr Marc Scully
Dr Jon Wetton
Project 1: Surnames and the Y chromosome
Project 2: Modelling Migration
Project 3: Genetics and early British population history
Project 4: Immigration and indigenism in popular historical discourses
Project 5: Dialect in Diaspora
Linguistic variation in early Anglo-Saxon England
People and places (PhD position)
Project 6: Home and away in early England
