Bioarchaeology Staff and Research Students

Course Director- MSc Osteoarchaeology

Equality and Diversity Lead (Semester 1)

Co-Course Director – MSc Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology

Departmental Lead for Impact and External Engagement (Semester 2)
Equality and Diversity Lead (Semester 2)

Co-Course Director- MSc Archaeological Science

Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Marketing (Semester 2)

Course Director- MSc Palaeoanthropology

Postgraduate Research Programmes Admissions Tutor

Thesis- Coming of age: a biocultural investigation of reproductive practices in Industrial Britain

Thesis- Animal husbandry in the British Later Iron Age: investigating economic and social change through zooarchaeology

Thesis- Birds of prey in the Bronze Age Near East: their role and identification

Thesis- A survey of Homo neanderthalensis immature morphology and ontogeny

Thesis- Hyaenas and Neanderthals in the British Middle Palaeolithic

Thesis- Animal exploitation in ancient Beirut from the Persian to the Umayyad period (6th century BC – 8th century AD): an archaeozoological approach

Thesis- The Marketisation of Agriculture

Thesis- The social and economic role of freshwater fish in medieval England: a zooarchaeological approach.

Thesis- Animals, People & Gods: Domestic, Civic & Sacred Consumption of Livestock in Hellenistic-Late Antique Messenia, Greece

Thesis- Joint disease in post-Medieval England: Comparative analysis of modern risk factors and historic lifestyles

Thesis- The Cementerio General de Santiago skeletal collection: lifeways and health experience of the population of Santiago de Chile ca. 1850-1970

Thesis- A critical examination of social stratification in prehistoric Cyprus using skeletal and funerary data

Thesis- A Diachronic Study: Tree Fruits and Their Value-Added Products in the Mediterranean and Caucasus

Thesis- Butchery practices in the Roman World: Rome, Romanitas, and the western Empire

Thesis- Roman migration patterns based on skeletal, archaeological, and written evidence.

Thesis- A Radiographic Analysis of Middle Ear Infection in Human Skeletal Remains

Thesis- Transient relations: non-adult funerary practices in 1st – 10th century AD Wales and Ireland and the origin of separate infant burial grounds.

Thesis- The effects of Industrialization on the state of health and disease of a Victorian Urban Population: A case study from St. Hilda’s Church, South Shields (Newcastle).

Thesis- One Foot in the Grave: An Experimental Examination of the Effectiveness and Development of the Anglesey Leg and an Analysis of Prosthesis during the Long Nineteenth Century

Thesis- Functional attributes as a tool for understanding the process of crop domestication

Thesis- 3D geometric morphometric analysis of metacarpal and phalangeal torsion in humans, primates and fossil hominins, and its application in stone tool use

Thesis- A bioarchaeological examination of the impact of early-life stress on later health outcomes using procrustean assessments of dental fluctuating asymmetry

Thesis- Osteological Variability in European Cattle: The Impact of Sexual Dimorphism and Selective Breeding on Size and Shape