Undergraduate

ARP1013 Introduction to World Archaeology (Module Coordinator)

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

ARP3056 Dissertation

BIO2207 Forensics and Toxicology

Postgraduate

AHS7031 Research Preparation Portfolio I

AHS7032 Research Preparation Portfolio II

GGY7005 Living with Climate Change

Current Administrative Roles:

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
• Community Archaeology Project Northern Ireland (CAPNI)

Current PhD Students (Primary Supervisor)

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

Lisa White - Determining Death: Investigating the Selection Processes for Mortuary Rites in Neolithic Ireland

Ryan Montgomery - Human-Animal-Environmental Interactions at Late Medieval Religious Foundations in Ulster

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 Ireland

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

Filippo Bertozzo (2021) - Disease in the Cretaceous - A Comparative Study of Iguanodon and Hadrosaur Palaeopathology

Judith Findlater (2023) - Feeding Medieval Carrickfergus - A Multiproxy Study of Livestock Husbandry in a Frontier Town

Jess White (2024) - Biomechanics of Physically Impaired Individuals from Medieval Ireland

Courtney Mundt (2025) - Mapping the Researching the Influences Behind Cillini Distribution in Counties Fermanagh, Meath and Antrim

Additional Information:

• Founding 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
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  
• Vice-President of the Ulster Archaeological Society
• Chair of the Local Organising Committee and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 29th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists - EAA Belfast 2023
• Elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2025)