Research students
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Surnames A - C
Sophia Anderson
Morpho-functional evolution of the mammalian scapula
Digital Recording, Fieldwork, and Craft at Museum of London Archaeology
Exploring the artefactual record of feasting during the Orcadian Late Neolithic
Heritage conservation in Algeria: Between consonance, dissonance and identity
Rising from the depths
Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment
Deep Mapping the City: Heritage Inspired Place Disruption to Promote Social Cohesion in Diverse Inner Urban Neighbourhoods
Title: Making marks, changing values: the contemporary signific- ance of graffiti at historic sites
Louise Calf
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Vanessa Castagnino
Whitefriars: metal acquisition and object production at monastic houses in late medieval England
Alice Cao
Exploring the function of grinding stones using old and new methods
Isabelle Carter
Tracing ephemerality: an archaeology of squatters' settlements in rural England, 1550-1750
Virajitha Chimalapati
Cultural Heritage Led Climate Change Adaptation of Historic Port Cities of Monsoon Asia: A Belt and Road Opportunity
Ewan Chipping
How was the morphology of domestic cattle and aurochs affected by human husbandry and exploitation in Britain from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age?
Simone Chisena
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)
Surnames D - F
Defying Convention: Devising New Approaches to Heritage Values in Valletta, Malta
The study of dietary proteins found in food crusts on Mesolithic pottery
Characterising the Historic Farmsteads of the Lake District National Park and World Heritage Site
Surnames G - I
James Glazzard
The tools and techniques of the Viking-age non-ferrous metalworker
Drury Graham
Traditional Pasts and Visionary Futures: The Multidimensional Benefits at the Intersection of Rural Heritage and Agroecology
Unlocking the genetic potential of museum stores
Lucy Handford
Functional development within the mammalian masticatory apparatus: an investigation into feeding capabilities with changing diets.
Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds
Nura Hassan
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
Aimee Henderson
Lead roofing in English parish churches: its history, significance, and key challenges in addressing metal theft
Communities of Consumption: an integrated approach to ceramic function and foodways along the Swahili coast during the first millennium AD
Surnames J - L
Viking Age 'Staffs of Sorcery'
Adopting Archaeology
Rebecca Jump
Iron Age burial practices in north-east and south-west Britain
Exploring the social mobility and influence of women in Roman public life from the 1st to the 3rd c. A.D
Anoj Khanal
Liquid landscape heritage and urban water scarcities in Kathmandu, Nepal
Invisible Technologies & the Container Revolution
Landscape Archaeology in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
Veronica Lee
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.
Shanshan Li
The Ideology behind Anthropomorphic Figurines: A Comparative Study of Southern Europe and North-Eastern China in the Neolithic Period (8000-2500 BC)
Lived or Living? A case study of living heritage in China
Decolonising York: telling alternative stories in a heritage city
Surnames M - O
Occupational Health in the Post-Medieval period: Insights from dental calculus
Katharine Macy
Modern Noise: How neurodivergent individuals create in different environments
Lucy Makinson
The extent of Mediterranean food cultures in Roman civilian settlements in Northern Britain. A study of three sites: Aldborough, Catterick and Brough on Noe.
William Marsh
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Title: 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.
Elisha Meadows
CDA22008 The Melting Pot of Eboracum: exploring diversity and identity through the skeletal and burial evidence in Roman York.
Title: Socio-economic changes from the Early (AD 350 - 1000) to Late (AD 1000 - 1550) Ceramic Period in Araucania region, Chile: new perspectives from organic residues analysis of ceramic artefacts
Title: Stycas, kings and Vikings: the copper-alloy revolution in 9th-century England
Kate Morris
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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
Development of metric sex estimation by discriminant function analysis for British archaeological populations, with considerations of temporal and societal specificity
A sense of place: sensory perceptions of Neolithic causewayed enclosures in their landscape contexts
Surnames P - R
Assessing the (Sub)cultural Heritage Significance of Grassroots Music Venues
Pippa Pemberton
Tangled imperial roots: the 20th century journey of botanic gardens from colonial assemblages to sites of memory and global plant conservation
Following a thread: Tracing technology and techniques along the Silk Road
Tracking the decline of Atlantic salmon in the Medieval North Sea basin
Materialising inequality and model communities: An archaeology of modern social reform
The Materiality of Health and Safety: The origins and symbolism of high-visibility work clothing
Jordi Ruiz Ventura
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Anne Kathrine Wiborg Runge
Inferring dog and human diet and subsistence strategies in the past using metagenomic and metaproteomic approaches
Purple White and Green: The Material Construction of Women's Suffrage 1832-1928
Surnames S - U
Storytelling, VR life histories and interpretation: Grave Circle A at Mycenae
Coinage, Landscape and society in the borderlands: economy, politics and identity in Scotland and northern England 1136-1603
Jack Saxton
Archaeology of the Norman Conquest in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Shelby Schrank
Post-war Institutional Architecture: Unpacking Thoughtful Conservation Practices
Callum Scott
Environmental variability and the evolution of human personality variation
Kirsty-Lee Seaton
Re-use of digital data in Archaeology
Shiyi Sha
From Memory to Cultural Heritage: How Does the Modern Expression and Interpretation of Cultural Heritage Reshape the Collective Memory?
Daniel Shaw
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Wuyang Shui
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Title: Potting landscapes: a regional approach to the development of pottery production in 11th-13th century Yorkshire
Tondi Siregar
Archaeology as a Tool in Building Civil Society in Indonesia
Makenzie Sorensen
“Vessels of the Past”: Intangible Maritime Archaeology in preserving Oceanic cultural memory through performance
Lauren Spencer
Accounting for Variation in Neanderthal Anatomy and Behaviour in Research: A Study of European Populations.
Alessandra Sprega
Between two floods. Local Flood Culture to build resilience: The case of the historic centre of York
Aubrey Steingraber
Landscapes of power and landscapes of mobility - Frontier dynamics on the medieval Anglo-Scottish border, c. 1100-1400
Megan Stoakley
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Infrastructures of Colonial Circulation
Informing our Heritage Future(s): Preserving our Digital Past(s)
Title: Plastic Landscapes in the Hawaiian Islands: Coastal Heritage Under Threat
Beyond Landscape: Extending Historic Landscape Characterisation to develop a more inclusive and transparent approach to managing local heritage
Devakumar Thenchery
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Living on the Edge: Precarity and Resilience in the Heritage of Fisherfolk and Fish
Checkpoint Charlie: The Changing Values of a Cold War Heritage Icon
Surnames V - Z
Decision-Making in Historic Buildings Recording and Survey
Qjan Wang
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.
Digital Public Archaeology in a Time of Crisis: investigating and improving the real world impact of online engagement in the UK
Rob Webley
Conquest and Continuity: characterising portable metalwork in Late Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, AD 900-1250
Nicholas Wilson
Tradition and transition: Burial practices in Roman Britain
Aster Wood
Before and after: how the societal transition after the fall of the Roman Empire affected the health of British people
Marie Woods
Breaking the Barrier to Museums' Unloved Objects: Collections in Crisis and a New Age of Engagement
"Lost in transition" – tracing human responses to climatic and environmental change in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in north-western Europe
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