Undergraduate

ARP1013 Introduction to World Archaeology (Module Coordinator)

ARP3053 Society, Death and Disease (Module Co-ordinator)

Postgraduate

AHS7031 Research Preparation Portfolio I

AHS7032 Research Preparation Portfolio II

ARP7306 Workplace Internship (Module Co-ordinator)

Current Administrative Roles:

Head of Archaeology and Palaeoecology

Co-Director of the Centre for Community Archaeology

Assistant Leader of the Belfast Branch of the Young Archaeologists’ Club

Chair of the University's Scholarships and Awards Group 

Current Research:

Key words:

Biocultural studies of Irish and Russian archaeological populations; deviant and minority burial practices; children’s burial grounds; Irish diaspora; community archaeology

• Ballyhanna Research Project

• Ranelagh Osteoarchaeological Project
• Health and Disease in Prehistoric Russia and Ukraine

Current PhD Students (Primary Supervisor):

Filippo Bertozzo - Palaeopathology of Ornithopod Dinosaurs

Jess White - Biomechanics of Physically Impaired Individuals from Medieval Ireland

Courtney Mundt - Mapping the Physical and Religious Influences behind Cillíní Distribution on the Island of Ireland

Judith Findlater - Feeding Medieval Carrickfergus- A Multi-proxy Study of Livestock Husbandry in a Frontier Town

Stine Carlsson - Medical Geology: The Impact of the Natural Environment on Health in Past Populations from Ireland and Scotland

Completed PhD Students (Primary Supervisor):

Svetlana Svyatko (2009) - Palaeodietary analysis of prehistoric populations from the Minusinsk Khakass Basin, South Siberia

Lynne McKerr (2010) - The archaeology of children and childhood in Early Modern Ireland

Catriona McKenzie (2010) - Biocultural analysis of Ballyhanna Medieval human remains

Rebecca Crozier (2012) - Taphonomic study of Neolithic human remains from Orkney

Jonny Geber (2012) - Biocultural and palaeopathological analysis of Great Famine burials from the Kilkenny Workhouse

Deirdre Drain (2017) - A Comparative Osteoarchaeological Analysis of Health Status in the Urban vs. Rural Populations of Late Medieval Irelan

Roisin O'Reilly (2017) - Musculoskeletal stress markers associated with the activities of past Irish populations

Cormac McSparron (2018) - The Early Bronze Age Single Burial Tradition in Ireland

Jeanna Loyer (2019) - Bioarchaeology, Archaeothanatology and Social Dimensions of Bronze Age and Iron Age Eurasian Steppe Populations

Additional Information:

• Editor of Childhood in the Past, the journal for the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past and member of the Society's Committee.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Archaeology.
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  
• Vice-President of the Ulster Archaeological Society
• Member of the Membership Committee of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland.
• Member of the Archaeology Standing Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Member of the CBA Archaeological Archievements Awards committee.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for the European Association of Archaeologists conference in Kiel 2021