All research supervisors

Archaeology

Dr Jessie Birkett-Rees

I am interested in the relationships between people and landscape and in the archaeology of conflict and commemoration. Methodologically, I specialise in spatial analyses, in non-invasive investigation techniques and in the application of G

Dr Richard Cosgrove

My research and teaching experience has been in human behavioural ecology, rock art studies, palaeoecology, zooarchaeology, stone artefact analysis and hunter-gatherer archaeology.

Dr Peter Davies

Peter's academic interests include the archaeology and languages of the ancient Near East, and has worked extensively on excavations in Cyprus, Turkey and Syria.

Dr Mark Eccleston

Mark's academic interests include the technological and social organisation of high-temperature industries, the analysis of inorganic materials, experimental archaeology and theoretical approaches to the production and consumption of materi

Dr Phillip Edwards

Phillip's academic interests include developments in the Levant during the Pleistocene and in the origins of food production and sedentism.

Professor Steven Falconer

Professor Steve Falconer studies early civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. He integrates evidence of village life and regional settlement patterns to explain the rise and collapse of urbanism, and the development of ag

Professor Patricia Fall

Professor Pat Fall studies past environments in a variety of geographic settings, including tropical rain forests on Pacific and Caribbean islands and the semi-arid and arid environments of the eastern Mediterranean basin.

Professor David Frankel

Professor Frankel is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His research interests include Australian Aboriginal archaeology and the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus.

Dr Andy Herries

Geoarchaeologist and palaeoanthropologist primarily working on hominin bearing and Palaeolithic aged sites in Africa, Australia, China and Bulgaria. Specialise in building chronological and palaeoenvironmental frameworks for human origins r

Dr Susan Lawrence

Susan's academic interests include archaeology of British colonisation, gender, and material culture studies.

Professor Tim Murray

Professor Murray's academic interests include the history, philosophy and sociology of archaeology, theoretical archaeology (particularly issues of temporality), contact archaeology and the archaeology of the modern world.

Dr Anita Smith

Anita's academic interests include history, philosophy and sociology of archaeology, theoretical archaeology, contact archaeology,the archaeology of the modern world and heritage issues

Dr Colin Smith

Colin Smith’s primary research area is biomolecular archaeology, and in particular investigating the preservation of biomolecules in archaeological skeletal tissue and how this affects the information they contain.

Dr Nicola Stern

Nicola is a Palaeolithic Archaeologist interested in the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of the narrative and dynamics of human evolution.

Dr Jennifer Webb

Jenny Webb’s research interests centre on the archaeology and material culture of Bronze Age Cyprus, with a particular focus on the identification and understanding of prehistoric households, gender relationships and settlement size.