Research students

PhD

• Logan O’Brien – Between the Land and Sea: a landscape approach to loss management planning.
• Heather Leonard – “Islands Lie Behind the Sun that I Shall Raise Ere All is Done,” Revealing island identities on Mainland Orkney through grave markers and GPS Mapping, 1825-1925.
• Lucille Rodrigues – Finding Mesolithic Time: assessing Scotland’s Mesolithic stone tools as an international heritage resource.
• Gary Lloyd – Made Through Making: Stonework, skill and social change in Neolithic Orkney.
• Amber Rivers – Weaving Time: researching the prehistoric textile production in Scotland through archaeological and creative practice.
• Anna Estaroth – The role of dark and light skies during the Late Neolithic in Orkney and Shetland.
• Holly Young – Shore Life: The Contribution of Marine Molluscs to Iron Age Subsistence in Northern Scotland.
• Jenny Murray – A Saint in Stone: The sign of the materiality of the cult of saints as evidenced in the cult of St Magnus the Martyr.
• Kath Page – The Deer Turn: reimagining nature and culture duality through human-red deer relations in Scotland’s archaeological past.
• Adam Markham – Understanding mind, economy and social transitions in the Viking Age and Late Norse British Isles through the use and meaning of birds.
• Joanne Machin – A study of medieval pilgrimage through landscape and seascape perspectives.
• Bruce Sutton – Fuel for the Fire: An anthracological investigation of fuelwood resource use from the burnt mound deposits in Ireland.
• Sarah-Jane Haston – Farming at the Edge: Neolithic agricultural evidence from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney.
• Cameron Taylor – Neolithic Narratives: examining storytelling methodologies, tools, and technologies for enriching visitor engagement with prehistory.

MRes (Masters by Research)

• Dave McBain – Employment and population change in Lochinver 1774- 1891.
• Michael Zambon – A Stone in Place: Further Assessment of the Conan Pictish Stone.
• Gareth Pearce – Investigating changes in Orcadian Neolithic farming practices through zooarchaeological examination of cattle skeletal elements from the Ness of Brodgar.
• Kevin Kerr –  Duty of Destruction: An archaeological analysis of the decommissioning of monumental Iron Age buildings in Orkney.
• Gianluca Marzagalli – Food preparation at the Ness of Brodgar.
• Rosalind Neville-Smith – How did societal change and emerging medical knowledge impact female health in late medieval and Post-medieval Scotland?
• Farrah Skimani – An investigation of the impact of commercialisation on money circulation and trade in medieval and early modern Shetland.

Past students – PhD

• Sandra Henry – On the edge: Climate change impacts on Irish coastal promontory forts.
• Darroch Bratt – Origins and history of whisky distilling: A historical and archaeological approach.
• Jasmijn Sybenga – Seeing the Wood for the Trees; a palaeoecological approach into the research of past natural woodland in the Scottish Highlands.
• Magdalena Blanz – Seaweed as Food, Fodder and Fertiliser in the North Atlantic Islands: Past, present and future opportunities.

Past students – MRes

• Kariane Bourgault – Farming and feasting in Iron Age Orkney: a comparison of livestock farming practices and dietary traditions at The Cairns, Mine Howe, Pool, and Howe, based on mortality profiles analyses of cattle, sheep/goat, and pig mandibles.
• Crane Begg – LiDAR Visualisations of the historic landscape of the National Scenic Area of Orkney.
• Jackson Clark – Burning issues: the significance of burnt and cremated faunal assemblages in Neolithic Orkney.
• Susan Dyke – Brave New World: a palaeoecological investigation into Neolithic human-environment interactions on Ness of Brodgar Isthmus, Orkney.
• Sara Marinoni – Forged in Fire: an anthracological investigation of woodland management and fuel selection for Iron Age metalworking at Culduthel, Invernesshire, UK.
• Gary Lloyd – Coarse Stone Tools from the Ness of Brodgar: Investigating the Function and Significance of Orcadian Neolithic Multi-Hollowed Cobbles.
• Asta Pavilionyte – Evaluating and reviewing archaeological mitigation undertaken as a result of major road infrastructure development in Scotland and associated public benefits.
• Hannah Genders Boyd – Out of the Round, A Palaeoecological Investigation in Human-Environmental Interactions of Bronze and Iron Age Hut Circle Communities in Gairloch, Wester Ross