Palaeopathology PhD Projects
Current Human Bioarchaeology PhD Students |
Research Title |
| Zahra Afshar | (Migration, mobility and economic transition in the 3rd millennium BC in the population of south-east of Iran, Shahr-e Sokhta); Iranian |
| Michaela Binder | (Health and diet in ancient Nubia through political and social change); Austria (Leverhulme Trust funded) |
| Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla | (Reconstructing social structure through bioarchaeological analysis); Spanish; funded by the Government of Anadalucia |
| Marissa DeMello |
(Historical and osteological paradox) |
| Joy Eddy | (Burned human skeletal remains and cremation practice in the north of Roman Britain) |
| Marieke Gernay | (Urban health in Medieval Belgium, France and England); Belgium |
| Devon Kase | (Congenital conditions in British populations: a contextual approach) - US |
| Ross Kendall | (A study of endemic malaria and haemolytic anaemias in past British populations) |
| Julie Peacock | (Disability and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Britain: AD 1066-AD 1800); UK; AHRC funded |
| Lindsay Powell | (Childhood health and care in Roman London: the isotopic and palaeopathological evidence) |
| Kimberly Plomp | (Quantifying palaeopathology: developing objective geometric morphometric methods for recording pathological conditions in human skeletal remains); Canadian; Durham Interdisciplinary Award - with Anthropology |
| Ariadne Schulz |
(Long Bone Morphology and its Relationship to Osteoarthritic Patterning among Archaeological Populations) |
| Jennifer Sharman | (Testing age and sex estimation methods on known documented skeletal collections from Portugal, England and Canada); Canadian/UK |
| Brittney Shields | (The Outcast Dead Health and Diet of the Post-medieval Poor of England) |
| Will Southwell-Wright | (Disability and difference? Assessing perceptions of physical impairment in Roman Britain) |
| Ashley Tallyn | (A study of the health of monks' and nuns' health using multiple lines of evidence); US |
| Lauren Walther | (A Comparison of a Highland and Coastal Population in Peru and the Effects of High Altitude on General Health and Body Proportion) |
Past Human Bioarchaeology PhD Students |
Research Title |
| Kirsty McCarrison | (2012) Osteological and biomolecular study of prehistoric tuberculosis in Britain; UK; NERC funded |
| Jennings, J. | (2010) Conflict in the Borders of England and its impact on late medieval populations; US |
| Henderson, C. | (2009) Musculo-skeletal stress markers in bioarchaeology: Indications of activity levels or human variation? UK |
| Spencer, R. | (2008) Testing hypotheses about the aetiology of DISH using stable isotope analysis and other techniques; Canadian/UK (NERC funded) |
| Cardoso, F.A. | (2008) A portrait of gender in two late 19th/early 20th century Portuguese populations: a palaeopathological perspective; Portugal; Fundação Para a Ciência Tecnologia funded |
| Arce, A. | (2008) Health in Southern and Eastern England: a perspective on the Early Medieval period - Venuzuela/Canada |
| McNaught, J. | (2007) Clinical and archaeological study of Schmorls nodes: Using clinical data to understand the past - UK |
| Groves, S.E. | (2006) Spears or ploughshares: multiple indicators of activity related stress and social status in four early Medieval populations from north-east England (AHRC funded) - UK |
| Caffell, A.C. | (2005) Dental caries in Medieval Britain (c. 450-1540): temporal, geographic and contextual patterns (NERC funded) - UK |
| Jakob, T. | (2004) Prevalence and patterns of disease in early Medieval populations: a comparison of skeletal samples from 5th-8th century AD Britain and Germany - Germany |
| Bernard, M-C. | (2003) Tuberculosis: a demographic analysis and social study of admissions to a children’s sanatorium (1936-1954) in Stannington, Northumberland (Canada) |
| Sture, J. | (2002) Biocultural perspectives on birth defects in late Medieval rural and urban populations in Northern England, (AHRC funded) - UK |