In 2023 Lydia Souter was awarded her doctorate for a thesis entitled “Memory Between the Local, the National, and the Transnational: A Study of Holocaust Commemoration in America, Britain, Germany, and Italy in the Twenty-First Century.” The research was fully funded by the E. H. Boundy scholarship from the University of Exeter.

Lydia’s PhD research focuses particularly on physical sites of Holocaust memory and theories of public memorialisation – particularly how local communities, nation states, and notions of transnational “cosmopolitan” memory variously intersect amidst particular spaces of public remembrance.