Research students
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Surnames A - C
Sophia Anderson
Morpho-functional evolution of the mammalian scapula
Structures and settlement at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr: investigating traces of activity through spatial analysis of flint microwear patterns
Exploring the artefactual record of feasting during the Orcadian Late Neolithic
Heritage conservation in Algeria: Between consonance, dissonance and identity
The comfort (and security) of things: an archaeology of object attachment
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
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
A study of population and individual diet and lifeways from English medieval Nunneries, Monasteries, urban and rural populations using stable isotopic methods, and micro-debris analysis of dental calculus
Flatfish and the origins of European marine fishing
The zooarchaeology of northern Britain and the Danube basin from the Iron Age to the early medieval period
Gail Falkingham
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Ashley Fisher
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Surnames G - I
Digital interpretation - measuring how far we've come
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
Roots for Culture: ArticulatingThe Individual in the Social Construction of 'Tradition' in Woodworking Practice
Pushing the frontiers of Roman identity: An examination of the northern frontier system of Britannia and the interaction of identity with the landscape
Back-to-back houses and their communities in 21st century Leeds
Western European Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic Burial Practices
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
Invisible Technologies & the Container Revolution
Landscape Archaeology in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
Lived or Living? A case study of living heritage in China
George Loffman
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Cuisine in Transition: tracking changes in pottery use in Medieval Sicily using organic residue analysis
Decolonising York: telling alternative stories in a heritage city
Surnames M - O
Occupational Health in the Post-Medieval period: Insights from dental calculus
Katherine Macy
Modern Noise: How neurodivergent individuals create in different environments
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
Tracking Ancestry: Ancient genomic analysis of multi-faith populations from Medieval Sicily
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
Lucy Moore
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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
Callum Scott
Environmental variability and the evolution of human personality variation
Kirsty-Lee Seaton
Re-use of digital data in Archaeology
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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Archaeology as a Tool in Building Civil Society in Indonesia
Roman Lifeways: New perspectives on Diet and Wellbeing at Herculaneum, AD 79
Carla Soto Quintana
Proteomics and the Decline of Parchment use
Accounting for Variation in Neanderthal Anatomy and Behaviour in Research: A Study of European Populations.
Between two floods. Local Flood Culture to build resilience: The case of the historic centre of York
Plants in pots: The molecular and isotopic identification of cereals in archaeological ceramics
Landscapes of power and landscapes of mobility - Frontier dynamics on the medieval Anglo-Scottish border, c. 1100-1400
Megan Stoakley
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Informing our Heritage Future(s): Preserving our Digital Past(s)
Raveena Tamoria
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Beyond Landscape: Extending Historic Landscape Characterisation to develop a more inclusive and transparent approach to managing local heritage
Devakumar Thenchery
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Diet in transition: Stable isotope analysis of multi-faith populations in medieval Sicily
Surnames V - Z
Decision-Making in Historic Buildings Recording and Survey
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
Katherine 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