MSc Archaeology Student Wins Prestigious Award
Image description: Christo conducting fieldwork.
Oxford Lifelong Learning is delighted to share the news that one of our MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology students has won a prestigious national award. Christo Leventis, who recently completed the MSc, was awarded the Medieval Settlement Research Group John Hurst Prize for a presentation based on his dissertation. Christo’s innovative research focused on a rigorous statistical analysis of factors influencing the layout of medieval settlements in the Norfolk Breckland.
Image description: Analysis of landscape areas and settlement patterns in the Breckland.
Christo says: ‘The Applied Landscape Archaeology Masters gives a unique mixture of academic and practical landscape teaching, including in digital methods. The course allowed me to combine my interests in statistical analysis and medieval archaeology to examine long-standing questions about the structure of the historic countryside. I believe that the methodology has potential in a wider study, and hopefully the prize award shows that the academic community agrees!’
Congratulations Christo and good luck with your future research!
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Published 14 January 2026