'PhD Application Stories' - Listen to Marta’s PhD application story

Hulton, Lucy

Abstract

Listen to Marta’s PhD application story.
Marta is a NWCDTP PhD student in Archaeology at the University of Manchester. She is from Italy; she did her BA and MA in Ancient Near East Archaeology at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.

Afterwards, she moved to Manchester in September 2021 to start her PhD. Her project aims to reconstruct the organization of pottery production during the third millennium in southern Mesopotamia (Iraq) with a focus on identifying recurrent gestures that characterize the production of specific standard vessel shapes and/or distinguish between production set-ups over time.

The research applies an interdisciplinary approach that combines macroscopic, radiographic, and experimental analyses. Furthermore, she has been working in southern Iraq since 2015 and this has allowed her to personally collect ceramic material for her research.

During her PhD, she has been teaching to undergraduate students which really contributed to develop her academic skills and enhance her experience in academia.



Recording date: 16.01.25

Interviewer name: Lucy Hulton, NWCDTP Widening Participation Fellow 2024-2025

Studio Manager: Phoebe Brennan

Ethics approval granted by the University of Salford: Project ID: 1189 (approval date: 27.08.24, amendment approval date: 13.11.24 - pre-interview form returned: 08.01.25, release form returned: 28.01.25)

CC BY 4.0 license

• Online Publication Date: May 7, 2025
• Publication Date: May 7, 2025
• Deposit Date: May 7, 2025
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.28922942.v1
• Collection Date: May 7, 2025