VIDES online journal
Check out VIDES, the annual online journal of interdisciplinary essays produced by our Master’s in Literature and Arts students.
Anna Brunton
DPhil in Literature and Arts
Anna Brunton won the International Society for Cultural History Essay Prize in 2020. The criteria included the application of and/or inclusion of methodological innovation, theoretical originality or historiographical significance. As well as winning the award Anna was invited to collect the award at their annual conference in 2021, which that year was in Verona. The article was published in Cultural History volume 11, issue 1, April 2022.
Sarah Cooley
DPhil in English Local History
Sarah Cooley recently presented on the way in which she adopts Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in her research; this was alongside Dr Martin Davies, the Digital Map Curator at the Bodleian Libraries and Burak Belli (a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford).
Neil Godfrey
DPhil in Archaeology
Neil Godfrey contributed to Volume IV of Itinera, The Journal of the Roman Roads Research Association – the world’s only peer reviewed journal dedicated to Roman road studies. Neil stated, “I was very pleased to be able to make a contribution to improving the understanding of sections of the Roman road network in southwest England”.
Melanie Golob
DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care
Melanie is a DPhil student and manager of a state-level health technology assessment programme in the US. Read Melanie’s report about the first ever Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) Research Week held in Oxford in May 2026, which aimed to bring together students across the EBHC programmes. Read the article.
Camilo Gomez Osorio
DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development
Published in the World Development Journal, November 2025, Camilo’s paper Extraordinary African cities? Zipf’s law and the emerging African system of cities is a chapter of their upcoming thesis for the DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development and was co-authored with their supervisor Professor Vlad Mykhnenko.
Camilo states that this paper and their thesis explores empirically the long-term patterns of urban population agglomeration across Sub Saharan Africa over the period 1960–2015. It finds evidence that the African urban hierarchy – both nationally and region-wide – is evolving to the empirical regularities commonly observed in OECD countries. At the same time, different spatial effects are observed across groups of countries by colonial legacies (British versus French), income, and land size.
Emily Groot
DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care
Emily is a public health physician based in Sudbury, Canada. Her research focuses on how to teach evidence-informed and socially accountable decision-making to public health and preventive medicine residents. She also enjoys writing short stories.
Aditi Gupta
DPhil in French Studies
Exeter DPhil candidate Aditi Gupta has attended a range of Graduate School training sessions and recently spoke at a conference in October 2024 launching ‘Patrimoines partagés France – Asie du Sud’, a digital library at the Bibliothèque nationale de France focused on shared heritage between France and South Asia. The Library also commissioned Aditi to write two website articles:
Kiu (Sam) Ho
DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development
Sam’s latest open access paper is co-authored with colleagues at HKU. It is a journal article derived from his engagement with Hong Kong University as a Senior Research Assistant and Lecturer.
Mike Kipling
DPhil in English Local History
Mike Kipling has written for the journal Local Population Studies in 2023 about the Sussex Debt Suits at the Elizabethan Court of Common Pleas.
Rachel O’Driscoll
DPhil in English Local History
Rachel O’Driscoll has written a blog post about her research which has been highly praised by other academics in her field.
Seda Ozturk
DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Seda successfully developed a peer reviewed paper in 2023 which was part of the proceedings from presentations at the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+8), hosted by Harvard University.
Craig Paterson
DPhil in Literature and Arts
Craig Paterson convened the first New Oxford Research in the Humanities interdisciplinary conference at the Department in September 2024.
Nicole Redvers
DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care
Nicole co-wrote the peer-reviewed paper Physicians’ views of patient–planetary health co-benefit prescribing: a mixed methods systematic review for the Lancet in 2023. More recently she has published Patient-planetary health co-benefit prescribing in a circumpolar health region in the British Medical Journal.
Inger Storm Sandboe
DPhil in International Relations
Inger Storm Sandboe co-wrote Imagined Extremist Communities, which has been highlighted as a resource against hate crime and radicalisation. A more recent piece is The Creation of the Monster Myth (June 2025).
