Archaeology and Ancient History
Current research students
| Name | Project title | |
| Abigail Ford | Hallowed Objects: the boundaries between magic and religion in Scotland c. AD 1200-1700 | af356@le.ac.uk |
| Alex Hirons | Biomolecular archaeology of the ageing body; a multi-omics analysis of age-at-death & geriatric disease | ajh120@le.ac.uk |
| Alvaro Ortega Gonzalez | Transitional foodways: Investigating the Anglo-Saxon transition through a multidisciplinary study of consumption practices in 3rd-8th century Northamptonshire | afog1@le.ac.uk |
| Amy Arden | Celestial Motherhood: Understanding the cultural context of gender and motherhood in ancient Greece through archaeoastronomy and constellation mythology | ala23@le.ac.uk |
| Andrew Thompson | The Duke of Bedford's Tavistock Estate from 'Improvement' to World Heritage Site | amt36@le.ac.uk |
| Andy Rogers | Ontologies of Personhood and the Body in Colonial Central America and the Caribbean | ajr64@le.ac.uk |
| Anna Tyacke | Reconstructing Regional Identities in Britain 1st BCE-4th CE through Metal Artefacts: The case of the Cornovii |
amt40@le.ac.uk |
| Anni Byard | The Iron Age to Roman transition in Britain from the perspective of Coin Hoards | abc53@le.ac.uk |
| Ben Donnelly-Symes | Opening up the archives: Engaging non-specialists with archaeological archives at the Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC) | bds18@le.ac.uk |
| Bianca Miranda Cardoso |
A Bank of Bones: Mortuary practices and ethnicity in Hellenistic Anatolia | bmc17@le.ac.uk |
| Brad Marshall | Gendered and social status disparities in the physical and cultural lifeways of children in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia |
bpm4@le.ac.uk |
| Brodhie Molloy | Stories4Cities: An investigation into the utility of archaeology, as a knowledge producing discipline, in the re-representation and inclusion of those experiencing homelessness | bmim2@le.ac.uk |
| Carol Gurnham | The Lost Long Barrows of Leicestershire and Rutland: searching for the archaeological landscape of the Neolithic | cag41@le.ac.uk |
| Chris Chinnock | Opening up the archives: A re-appraisal of the osteological archive for the small towns of Roman Northamptonshire and the publication of several key assemblages |
cc653@le.ac.uk |
| Chris Edley | Nucleated Settlements in Roman Britain | cre12@le.ac.uk |
| Christine Downton | Model Citizens: the iconography of excellence in Athenian Art, c.550-350 BC | cad38@le.ac.uk |
| Clinton Briar | An Appropriation of An: A ‘Theography’ of An/Anu from the Uruk through the Seleucid Period of Mesopotamian History | ckb15@le.ac.uk |
| Dane Magoon | The People of Mussel and Shell: An Isotopic Investigation of Palaeodiet and Mobility at the Hatch Site (44PG0051) during the Late Woodland I Period (AD 900 to 1300) | dm366@le.ac.uk |
| Debbie Frearson | Community Archaeology in the East Midlands – past, present and future | daf21@le.ac.uk |
| Elisabeth Aslesen | Bodied Objects: Personhood and imagery on clothed objects form Nrway in the first millennium CE | ea338@le.ac.uk |
| Elisabeth Janovsky | Cultural interaction, artistic progress and leisure culture: an object biographical approach to Roman decorated gaming couinters | ejkj1@le.ac.uk |
| Elliot Elliott | Defining the prevalence of leprosy in peri-domestic animals using osteoarchaeology | ke90@le.ac.uk |
| Emma Stockley | Predicting and Protecting Lithic Landscapes |
evs13@le.ac.uk |
| Emma Thompson | Collision and Cohesion: comparing the (re)negotiations of mortuary identities in England and Denmark (c. 800-1100 CE) | elt21@le.ac.uk |
| Giulia Bison | Metals, craft products and urban economy in late antique Rome | gb276@le.ac.uk |
| Gord Macdonald | Impacts of Global Climate Change on Polar Heritage; Documentation and Assessment of Imperilled Polar Heritage Sites | ghm7@le.ac.uk |
| Hamish Darrah | Cutting edge technology: constructing and contextualising Late Bronze Age toolkits | hd241@le.ac.uk |
| Hannah Curry | Prehistoric tin mining landscapes in Cornwall and Devon |
hc394@le.ac.uk |
| Hannah McQuail | Innovative Use of Earth Observation for Archaeological Discovery from Space | hem19@le.ac.uk |
| Jacob Metson | Stone tools in a Metallic World | jm1037@le.ac.uk |
| Joel Rodrigues Oliveira Dos Santos | An archaeological journey into the layers of loneliness and solitude in the past |
jrods2@le.ac.uk |
| Jon Walsh | Foodways in medieval to post-medieval Leicester: assessing the archaeology and socio-urban implications of the Waterside faunal assemblages |
jpw37@le.ac.uk |
| Jonny Graham | From regional identities to assemblages of difference: rethinking the communities of Late Neolithic Britain | jag62@le.ac.uk |
| Judith Margarita López Aceves | Drug cultures and wellbeing: Investigating drug use in the precolonial Caribbean | jmla3@le.ac.uk |
| Kai Francis | The role of pirates and piracy in the invention of the Pax Romana (67BCE - 180 CE) | kaf23@le.ac.uk |
| Katarina Kompauerova | Bringing ancient disabilities and the emotions associated with them to the present-day disabled people – ‘Their own stories in the past’ | kk4550@le.ac.uk |
| Kate Evetts | Understanding the Plant Economy of Small Towns in Medieval England (c1200–1600). A synthetic analysis and interpretation of archaeobotanical evidence | kae7@le.ac.uk |
| Kayt Hawkins | Let food be thy medicine: an analysis of the manufacture, use and deposition of ceramic ‘baby bottles’ in Roman Britain and the north-western Roman provinces | kah70@le.ac.uk |
| Kirstie Hartlett | Castle Typologies, Landscape and Settlement: Interrogating the Derbyshire Resource | keh40@le.ac.uk |
| Kirsty Henson | Biocultural effects on ancient vitamin D deficiency in the United States and their role in spinal pathology | kdh9@le.ac.uk |
| Meg Gaillard | While I Breathe, I Hope: Heritage at Risk within the Southeastern United States, South Carolina as a Case Study | mcg35@le.ac.uk |
| Imperial ports and harbours of Crete: the development of a Provincial maritime and coastal infrastructure (late 1st BCE - 3rd century CE) | mjc100@le.ac.uk | |
| Molly Pye | The role of public value in the development of archaeology and the discipline’s relationship with the public in Britain from 1830 to 1880 | mrp40@le.ac.uk |
| Naomi Allman | Hermaphroditos in the museum: the intersex body for ancient and modern audiences |
nma21@le.ac.uk |
| Panagiotis Koutsouris | The Mastos and the Berbati Valley: An exploratory research on transportation routes and polity organization, during the LHIIIA2- B1 | pk257@le.ac.uk |
| Paul Duffy | From Stones to Structures – the Lost Architecture of Medieval Dublin | pd207@le.ac.uk |
| Rebecca Kibble | Using open source GIS to enable the multiscalar, spatio-temporal analysis and visualisation of complex zoo-archaeological datasets | rek13@le.ac.uk |
| Renate Larssen | Living with humans: how animals shaped early medieval Northern Europe (400-1100 CE) | rl334@le.ac.uk |
| Rupert Birtwistle | The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Azerbaijan: Technology and Migration of Later Acheulean Populations | rjb87@le.ac.uk |
| Shannon Loftus | Owl Cave: Southeastern Idaho and the Oldest Folsom, Bison Hunting Site in the Desert West? |
sll56@le.ac.uk |
| Sima Yadollahy | Agency and its relation with Social, Cognitive complexities in Cheshmeh Ali culture | sy208@le.ac.uk |
| Tamar Miller | Relic Veneration in Italy: A phenomenological study of martyrial culture and its influence on Early Christian sites | tlm20@le.ac.uk |
| Tofie Benson | Parental Expectations | aob21@le.ac.uk |
| Victoria Szafara | ‘Paired’ Brooches in Roman Britain: Their Context and Distribution | vs206@le.ac.uk |
| Wenxuan Zhang | Use of Archaeological Sites: Bring the Public Archaeology into Museums and Heritage Sites [public archaeology in China and UK] |
wz178@le.ac.uk |
| William Moody | Synergy in a Litho-Metallic World: Material Convergence in Craft in the Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland |
wmm3@le.ac.uk |
| Yvonne O'Dell | Ontologies of Affect: Exploring emotional encounters and transformations in the Caribbean | yvod2@le.ac.uk |
| Zoe Schofield | In Search of the Decorator: The Analysis of Roman Wall Decoration through the Study of Roman Decorative Borders in Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae | zs177@le.ac.uk |
| Zoe Tomlinson | A re-evaluation of Romano-British painted wall plaster across the East Midlands, to understand the contemporary purpose and meaning of different painted schemes to both patrons and viewers, with a particular focus on the Roman colour palette | zt44@le.ac.uk |