Postgraduate researchers

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Examining Nubian A-Group long-distance trade in the 4th millennium BCE through the study of organic materials

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Morpho-functional evolution of the mammalian scapula

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• Digital Recording
• Fieldwork
• Craft at Museum of London Archaeology

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Exploring the artefactual record of feasting during the Orcadian Late Neolithic

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Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment

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This project seeks to investigate changes in diet across Southern Brazil prior to, and as a result of western colonial influence, using amino acid (AA) compound specific isotope analysis (CSIA) on the remains of humans and baseline food sources across a number of sites. 

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It is anticipated that my project will broaden understandings of the extent of the variation in school architecture from the period between 1870 and 1914, and contribute towards conversations about the conservation of educational heritage. 

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Making marks, changing values: the contemporary significance of graffiti at historic sites

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A ‘Room to Make a Row In’: A social and architectural study of the private theatre in Chatsworth House, 1828-1907

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Exploring the function of grinding stones using old and new methods

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Tracing ephemerality: an archaeology of squatters' settlements in rural England, 1550-1750

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Cultural Heritage Led Climate Change Adaptation of Historic Port Cities of Monsoon Asia: A Belt and Road Opportunity

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Man looks at himself: an archaeological and ethnographic study of changing visual self-perception in European prehistoric societies through the lens of figurative art (40.000 BP - 2.200 BC)

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My research aims to understand how the character of North Yorkshire’s moorlands have been shaped by human use and associated social-ecological systems.

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The Role of Food Heritage in the Negotiation of Identity and Belonging among European Migrants to the UK

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The study of dietary proteins found in food crusts on Mesolithic pottery

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My research aims to understand how communities that value USAAF heritage evolve. This will help to understand the broader cultural implications of memorialization, or lack thereof, in heritage communities.

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Characterising the Historic Farmsteads of the Lake District National Park and World Heritage Site

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My research investigates the role of museum architecture during three pivotal moments of industrial transformation: the 1890s, 1960s, and 2010s. 

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The tools and techniques of the Viking-age non-ferrous metalworker

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Traditional Pasts and Visionary Futures: The Multidimensional Benefits at the Intersection of Rural Heritage and Agroecology

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Functional development within the mammalian masticatory apparatus: an investigation into feeding capabilities with changing diets.

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This project will explore diet and mobility among coastal populations of Somaliland from the 4th to 19th century CE. Using bioarchaeological approaches such as stable isotope and lipid residue analysis it will provide the first consideration of identity and religious change through an exploration of diet and mobility

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Lead roofing in English parish churches: its history, significance, and key challenges in addressing metal theft

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Communities of Consumption: an integrated approach to ceramic function and foodways along the Swahili coast during the first millennium AD

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My research focuses upon British woodland historical ecology over the Holocene.

I am addressing the question of how historical woodland management has affected woodland biodiversity in Britain.

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3D Analysis of Neolithic / Bronze Age Ritual Landscapes

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Adopting Archaeology

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This project will investigate the sex-selection of deer species by hunter-gatherer groups in Northern Europe, using analysis of the protein amelogenin.

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Iron Age burial practices in north-east and south-west Britain

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Exploring the social mobility and influence of women in Roman public life from the 1st to the 3rd c. A.D

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Liquid landscape heritage and urban water scarcities in Kathmandu, Nepal

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Invisible Technologies & the Container Revolution

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This project will explore medieval Baltic pike trade via a) synthesis of bone data, including size and body-part profiles, to assess preservation methods; b) stable isotope analysis to distinguish coastal vs freshwater pike and identify non-local catches. Alongside δ13C, δ15N & δ34S in bone, δ18O in pike teeth will be trialled as a novel proxy for catch region.

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The Ideology behind Anthropomorphic Figurines: A Comparative Study of Southern Europe and North-Eastern China in the Neolithic Period (8000-2500 BC)

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Lived or Living? A case study of living heritage in China

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Redefining “Yorkness”: Provincialising Britain’s Migrant and Refugee Heritage

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Modern Noise: How neurodivergent individuals create in different environments

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The extent of Mediterranean food cultures in Roman civilian settlements in Northern Britain. A study of three sites: Aldborough, Catterick and Brough on Noe.

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Mobilities and Materialities: The complexity of movement for Disabled Individuals in Twentieth-Century England

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Social Entanglement in Death: Interpopulation isotopic analysis between a mass grave and an attritional assemblage to assess social reactions to catastrophe from Medieval Leicester, England and Roman-Byzantine Ibida, Romania.

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CDA22008 The Melting Pot of Eboracum: exploring diversity and identity through the skeletal and burial evidence in Roman York.

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The overall aim of my research is to explore how we might go about unpicking the ways in which colonisation still colours academic discussion in archaeology, and how we can begin to move past this. 

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Stycas, kings and Vikings: the copper-alloy revolution in 9th-century England

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Engaging the unengaged: Breaking down barriers of access to archaeology and heritage.

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Archaeologies of Bereavement: The use of objects during grieving, 1850-1900

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The changing nature of dogs in (post)medieval England: a bioarchaeological study of treatment, health, size, and diet across human social contexts

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‘Patches of the endless forest’. Monuments, landscape and remote perception in the Early Neolithic of southern Britain.

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I have a particular interest in gardens and designed landscapes of the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, with my main focus on the role of plant nurseries and those who worked in them in creating those spaces.

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Palaeolithic art within its landscape and the social significance of major art locations as aggregation sites

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Buildings Archaeology
Railway Buildings
Country Railway Stations
Conservation of Railway Heritage
Railway History
Architectural Analysis

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The last major comprehensive study on Palaeolithic funerary archaeology was published in 2011 and primarily focussed on European and Levantine mortuary behaviours, with the southern migration route simply periphery. This PhD aims to update the current synthetic models of the evolution of mortuary practices, integrating new evidence across time, geography and species. 

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Tangled imperial roots: the 20th century journey of botanic gardens from colonial assemblages to sites of memory and global plant conservation

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Following a thread: Tracing technology and techniques along the Silk Road

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Evaluating Nuclear Heritage: New and Practical Approaches to a Complex Industrial Landscape

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Chinese Porcelain, Building Environments and the Construction of Symbolic Meaning in Medieval Swahili Material Culture

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Tracking the decline of Atlantic salmon in the Medieval North Sea basin

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Archaeology of the Norman Conquest in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

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Post-war Institutional Architecture: Unpacking Thoughtful Conservation Practices

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Re-use of digital data in Archaeology

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From Memory to Cultural Heritage: How Does the Modern Expression and Interpretation of Cultural Heritage Reshape the Collective Memory?

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Historic Construction and Approach to Integrated Conservation/Restoration Process: A Case of Bhunga Architecture, Kutch, Gujarat

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Potting landscapes: a regional approach to the development of pottery production in 11th-13th century Yorkshire

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Archaeology as a Tool in Building Civil Society in Indonesia

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Urban Silk Roads economies: a combined archaeobotanical and isotopic approach to exploring agriculture and subsistence in early Medieval Central Asia

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“Vessels of the Past”: Intangible Maritime Archaeology in preserving Oceanic cultural memory through performance

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Accounting for Variation in Neanderthal Anatomy and Behaviour in Research: A Study of European Populations.

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Historic Routeways in the Woodsmith Mine Corridor

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Infrastructures of Colonial Circulation

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Informing our Heritage Future(s): Preserving our Digital Past(s)

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Set against the backdrop of potential nuclear annihilation, Dover Castle (English Heritage) was designated as a Regional Seat of Government during the Cold War. It has a collection of 8,000 objects relating to the Cold War, this project seeks to analyse and understand the collection and how it can reflect on the impact of this period.  

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Plastic Landscapes in the Hawaiian Islands: Coastal Heritage Under Threat

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People and Places: Social Landscape Characterisation for inclusive and sustainable heritage management

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The relationship between pelvic musculoskeletal morphology and male reproductive function, and its evolutionary context in hominins

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Living on the Edge: Precarity and Resilience in the Heritage of Fisherfolk and Fish

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The Cotton Industry and the Growth of Egyptology: commercial agency through textile production in the development of Egyptology collections in the United Kingdom, with specific reference to Bolton Museum and Barlow & Jones Ltd. 1860-1940

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Checkpoint Charlie: The Changing Values of a Cold War Heritage Icon

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Decision-Making in Historic Buildings Recording and Survey

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced public participation and the creative economy within Chinese and UK heritage management: a comparative study of heritage institutions and arts festivals.

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This research proposal aims to investigate the challenges and innovations of future heritage management in public participation and creative economic effects under COVID-19 situation.

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Digital Public Archaeology in a Time of Crisis: investigating and improving the real world impact of online engagement in the UK

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Hacking the Big Smoke: Alternate Reality Games and London’s Archaeology

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Identifying complex death rites in the early Neolithic of central Europe, using a novel combination of archaeothanatology and histotaphonomy.

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Tradition and transition: Burial practices in Roman Britain

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Before and after: how the societal transition after the fall of the Roman Empire affected the health of British people

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Breaking the Barrier to Museums' Unloved Objects: Collections in Crisis and a New Age of Engagement