Eileen Murphy

Professor

Professor, School of Natural and Built Environment

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 3979
Emaileileen.murphy@qub.ac.uk

Room 0G.053 - 42 Fitzwilliam Street
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am open to PhD applications in the field of: - Bioarchaeology (especially of Irish and Eurasian populations) - Burial practices (including atypical, minority, deviant practices) - Children's burial grounds (cillini) - Childhood in the past - Archaeology of the Irish diaspora - Community archaeology - Archaeology of Fermanagh

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Personal profile

Teaching

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

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

Research Interests

Current Research:

Culture and Society Research Cluster

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
Further information about this project can be found in volumes 1 and 4 of Seanda, the National Road Authority’s archaeology magazine.

INSTAR: The People of Prehistoric Ireland

The Cross and the Shamrock: Symbolism and Cultural Identity among the Irish Immigrants of Early Nineteenth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

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

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

Research Interests

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
Member of the Membership Committee of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland.
Member of the Archaeology Standing Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Research Output

Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland

Le Roy, M. & Murphy, E., 01 Dec 2019, The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. Halcrow, S. & Gowland, R. (eds.). Springer

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Co-morbidity with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy: a possible Iron Age Sarmatian case from the Volga steppe of Russia

Loyer, J., Murphy, E., Ruppe, M., Moiseyev, V., Khartanovich, V., Zammit, J., Rottier, S., Potrakhov, N., Bessonov, V. & Obodovskiy, A., 01 Mar 2019, In : International Journal of Paleopathology. 24, p. 66-78

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article