Working on an Oxford DPhil in Ancient History, Hanzi Zhang-Baduel explores the perceptions of homeland in late antiquity: ‘My research explores the transformation of the concept of patria in the West from the middle of the third century to the very end of the Western Empire, focusing in a first stage on Latin authors from Gaul, e.g. Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, Rutilius Namatianus and Sidonius Apollinaris.’