Tim is currently supervising 9 postgraduate research students registered in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol. They are studying for MLitts and PhDs in Garden, Landscape and Architectural History. The following list gives an idea of the breadth and variety of the research being undertaken

Janice Gooch
Return from Exile - Architectural patronage and the influence of continental practice in England, 1660-1688

Jane Whittaker

Gardens for Gloriana - Courtier Competition, Hospitality and Horticulture in the Gardens of Queen Elizabeth's I's Progresses to the West and the Midlands, 1572-1592

Jim Bartos

Seventeenth-century attitudes towards and perceptions of Nature

Nancy Sheridan
Art for Conservation's Sake - Historic houses and the financial benefits of media involvement

Laura Mayer
Arbiters of Taste: Landscaping, Architecture and Design – The Society of Dilettanti and British Patronage (1736-1789)

Helen Lawrence
Thomas Archer (c1668-1743) – Architect and Garden Designer

Jean Reader
The role of women in the history of the gardens of south and west Wales between 1750 and 1850

Martin Wood
The rise of ‘Picturesque’ placemaking in Northern Europe

Archival image: a detail from Jacob de Wilstar's 1746 map of the Manor of Clifton, Bristol showing the original formal garden below the site of Clifton Hill House. By kind permission of The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol