Graduate Students
2014 - 2015
Benjamin Otoo: M. Phil. 'A taxonomic and palaeoecological investigation of an earliest Carboniferous
fauna from Burnmouth, Scotland.'
2009 - 2013
Kelly Richards: 'Early Carboniferous chondrichthyan faunas from the Peak District
of Derbyshire: skeletal anatomy, systematics, phylogeny and environments.'
2006 - 2007
Viviane Callier: Masters. Churchill Fellowship
2004 - 2005
Brian Swartz: Masters. 'Devonian actinopterygian phylogeny based on the genus
Stegotrachelus.'
2002 - 2003
Matthew Friedman: Masters. 'Morphology and phylogeny of Devonian lungfishes
from Greenland'. NSF Fellowship.
2002 - 2014
Rosalyn Wade: PhD. 'Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Scottish
osteolepidids'.
2002 - 2008
Esther Sharp: PhD. 'Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of British
Carboniferous lungfishes'.
1996 - 2000
Sally Neininger: PhD. 'Structure, function and significance of dermal bone and
its sculpture, based on a study of Acanthostega.'
1994 - 1999
Jonathan Jeffery: PhD. 'Morphology and relationships of rhizodontiform fishes.'
1992 - 1996
Elizabeth Pringle: PhD. 'Anatomy, relationships and palaeobiology of anthracosaurs
from the Carboniferous.'
1991 - 1994
Michael S. Y. Lee: PhD. 'Evolutionary morphology of pareiasaurs.'
1989 - 1993
Paul Upchurch: PhD. 'A study of the anatomy, functional morphology and phylogeny
of sauropod dinosaurs.'
1986 - 1988
Per Ahlberg: PhD. 'The anatomy and phylogeny of porolepiform fishes, with
special reference to Glyptolepis.'