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Current UCL Institute of Archaeology research student profiles are available via this page.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | UV | WY| Z

    • A

    Rosabella Alvarez-Calderon Silva-Santisteban The complicated future of ruins and historic urban landscapes

    Karina Andersson Machine Learning as a Method of Sex Estimation from Cranial CT Scans

    Isabel Annal The effects of social change on infant funerary practices: a study of baby burials on the frontiers of the Western Roman Empire    

    Laura Arcidiacono Development of a non-invasive neutron technique for the analysis of trace elements in gold objects from pre-Columbian period in South America      

    Summer Austin Tut on the Auction Block: Demand Creation through Exhibition — A case study of market reaction to the last 50 years of Tutankhamun exhibitions in New Contexts

    • B

    Pablo Barba Egyptian state formation and the entanglements of personhood, power and emotions in Predynastic children’s burials

    Archontoula Barouda Ceramic and Plaster Technologies and Traditions at Neolithic Makri, Thrace, Greece

    • C

    Ilaria Calgaro Technology, organisation, and networks of metal production and circulation in the Eurasian Steppe Bronze Age: a case of large-scale copper production at the site of Taldysai (Kazakhstan)

    Sara Carrión Anaya Early Ceramic Technologies and Traditions in the Edom Lowlands Region of Southern Jordan: A Diachronic Perspective

    Stefano Cecatiello A typology of Sogdian Cultic Spaces between 5th and 8th Century: Material Culture, Cultic Practices and Sociopolitical Significance

    Noah Chapman Agency and Affect: Disseminating archaeological-historical thinking, imagination, and engagement through digital interactions

    Chen Chen Materials and Processes of Glass-making and Glass-working Furnaces in the First Millennium CE, focusing on the Levantine Region

    Zhiming Chen Presenting narratives of the Maritime Silk Routes: A comparative study of museum exhibitions on the route of MSR

    Jon Cogdale Analysis of synchronic and diachronic variations in the plaggen soils of north-west Europe in relation to social, cultural and environmental variations, AD 1000-1800.

    Anthea Crane A spatial analysis of Safaitic inscriptions to study seasonal migrations and localized movements across the Black Desert

    Stefania Cucuteanu The Palaeoecology of Bovidae Fauna at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: A Complete Taxonomic Assessment of Beds I-IV and the Abiotic and Biotic Interactions in Plio-Pleistocene Faunal Communities

    • D

    Marion Davidson The Frequency, Accuracy, and Reliability of the Ancestry Estimation Methods in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology

    Annabeth Deakin Roman Ceramic Oil Lamps and the North-Western Provinces: the emotive nature of objects in the globalising Empire

    Anna Den Hollander Social Stratification and the Introduction of Cash Crops: a case study from South-East India

    Xin Ding Site formation process, Pleistocene assemblages, and hominin behavioural patterns at open-air sites in lake margin environments 

    Shenglun Du Peopling the Marshlands: a comparative study of Neolithisation on landscape and subsistence in the Low Countries and the Lower Yangtze, China.

    Tom Dwyer Reconstructing the ecology and extinction dynamics of Late Quaternary megafauna in China.

    Melissa Dobson Intervertebral disc disease: its prevalence, distribution and relationship to other spinal pathology in two human skeletal populations from Chichester, England

    • E
    • F

    David Fallon The Assemblage of the Mind. An Archaeological Rhythmanalysis of Living in Ancient Merv

    Amanda Ford Spora (Re)conceptualising authentic narratives of Nile Valley funerary figurines with teenagers using digitally produced replicas 

    • G

    Yezhi Gao Affective heritage on Chinese social media Xiaohongshu

    Annabel Gee How do museum staff curate, and visitors make meaning of, museum exhibitions that discuss mental health?

    Francesca Glanville-Wallis Soils and Land-Use in an Urban Context – Past, Present and Future: Lamanai, Belize from 1600 B.C. to A.D. 1990

    Evelyn Glass The Skeletal Impact of Total Hip Arthroplasty and Femoroacetabular Joint Prosthetics

    Cristian González-Rodríguez Chullpa-type architecture in the south-central Andes: approaches to the computational modelling of built environments and ritual landscapes

    Qiwei Guo A Dream of the Tang Dynasty: China's Heritage Complexes and the “Road to Rejuvenation”

    • H

    Pauline Harding Archaeology as ‘Witchcraft’: Spirits, Sorcerers and Salesmen in Buganda

    Christopher Hayward Staging Authority: Aztec Power and Ceremonial Performance in the Solar Calendar

    Kangte He At the Frontiers of the Prehistoric Silk Road: Bronze Age metal technology and exchanges across the Western Tian Shan Piedmonts

    Xosé Hermoso-Buxán Political Strategies and Universal Empires: Insights from the Space Syntax Analysis of Palatial buildings in the Ancient Near East

    Fiona Holloran A reconstruction of the late middle and early upper Palaeolithic ecosystems of southwest Britain in relation to human presence: new combined methods.

    Jack Hume Liberalism, Partiality, and Cultural Goods: Justifying Arts Funding in Liberal Democracies

    • I

    • J

    Jisun Jang Developing the novel age estimation method utilizing the 3D reconstructed auricular surface by applying the Dirichlet Normal Energy

    • K

    Yu-Chun Kan Stir the pots of social change: micro-archaeobotany of cooking in East/Southeast Asian prehistory

    Shanna Kang Post-Mortem Embodiment in an Interdisciplinary Study of the Human Corpse

    Kameron Kashani Resource Exploitation and Oppression in Germania Inferior: Impact of economic colonial structures and militant imperial ideologies in Roman-occupied frontier landscapes

    Kelsi Kaviani Through a Glass Lens: Technological Innovation and Trade in Early Islamic North Africa

    • L

    Tonia Lawes What can popular culture depictions of non-World War Two conflicts reveal about persisting imperial sentiments in the social landscape of Britain between 1945 and 1960?

    Raluca - Ioana Lazarescu Mapping technological change in Medieval North Africa, from Roman to Islamic copper economies (0 -1500 CE)

    Clare Lewis Developing Disciplinary Knowledge: Inaugural Lectures in Egyptology

    Zehao Li Walls across Eurasia: A Comparative Study of Linear Defence Systems and Great Empires

    Xin Lin Jade networks in Mesoamerica and early China

    Yunxiao Liu Challenges and opportunities in the management and sustainable use of remote sites: a case study on the Oases Routes of the Silk Roads

    Haipei Lyu Exchanging of the West China Jade Cong in the Late Neolithic: Qijia, Shimao and Taosi as Examples

    • M

    Laurence Maidment-Blundell Volunteers as re-narrators of Colonial Histories: their contribution to the de-colonisation of British Cultural Institutions

    Andrea Martínez-Carrasco State Control of Production, Distribution and Consumption of Inka-Style Pottery in the Southern Border of Tawantinsuyu (Inka State)

    Gwendoline Maurer Diaspora Subsistence Strategies: Tracing 3rd millennium migrants to the Levant

    Antanas Melinis Conditions for the safe storage of early glass

    Elias Michaut An archaeology of youth incarceration in France, 1840s-1940s

    Tamara Moore The Importance of Being an E-Group: Investigating Structure D-1 at Ka’kabish, Belize

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    • P

    Nidhi Patel Indo-Portuguese fort of Mumbai: Developing an effective Heritage Tourism plan through Interactive Community Engagement

    David Pope Material manipulation: Knowledge exchange between experienced practitioners and emerging conservators within the field of historic brick pointing.

    Stephen Porter The relationships between land-users and archaeologists in British Mandate Palestine, and the impact on, and of, archaeological research.

    Eleanor Preston The Ubaid in the Persian Gulf: compositional and petrographic analysis of potsherds from Iraq to the Straits of Hormuz

    Rhonda Prout Swine, Pannage and Droveways - Pigs in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape

    • Q

    Mitzy Quinto Cortes Destroyed but not lost: How to overcome an earthquake?

    • R

    Lisa Randisi Towards a model for public archaeology and heritage engagement in Mongolia: relevance, practice, impact

    Alice Revill An investigation into Neolithic enclosures in Continental Europe

    Bebe Richards Investigating the potential for legislative and non-legislative regulations to curb market demand for illicit antiquities

    Liam Richards The Effect of Temperature and Multivalent Ions on the Oxidation State of Copper in Ancient Glass

    Kay Richardson BEYOND WORDS: How can significance led placemaking that integrates heritage values create a more socially responsible urban design process?

    Cambria Rodriguez The Life and Death of an Aztec “Chosen Child”: ritual, politics, and environment

    Gwendoine Rouault Large-scale computational approaches to medieval town formation in Mediterranean Europe

    Francesca Ruzzetta Healing through heritage: archaeology and contemporary communities in Greece

    • S

    Wiktoria Sagan Multi-proxy research into pre-colonial raised fields of Amapá, Brazil

    Lucy Sladen Changing Human-Animal Interactions in post-Roman Britain: Can We Detect Socio-Economic and Cultural Change?

    Christine Spencer Picking up the Pieces: Assessing the role of legacy survey data in interpretations of social change in Bronze Age Crete

    Arthur Starzec Regionalism and identity in the UK and France from the 17th Century through the development of transport networks

    Yikun Sun Between the Party-state and Internet Giant: Commodification of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China 

    Kate Swinson Over-Hunting, Population Pressure, or Climate Change? Meta-Analysis of the Drivers of Faunal Change in the Late Palaeolithic Levant

    • T

    Sian Therese An investigation into the diversity and fluidity of the human practice of eating in the occupied spaces in Britain 100BCE – 200CE

    Cornelia (Nina) Thompson The Work of Medical Museums: Collaborative approaches to understanding engagement, outcomes and implications for well-being

    Tong Tong Assessment on the treatment methodology and performance efficiency of nanolime as a consolidant in the conservation of wall paintings extreme weather conditions

    Ofelia Tychon Agricultural sustainability and imperial collapse: the case of the fall of Assyria

    • V

    Nelly (Eleanor) von Aderkas Containing Commodities: Determining Organic Residues In Greek Painted Pottery

    • W

    Paulina Wandowicz Broken, burnt, and buried: Magico-religious practice, power dynamics, and social control at Tell el-Amarna and Deir el-Medina

    Chen Wang Early Neolithic caprine herding practices in Central Anatolia: a combined zooarchaeology and biomolecular approach focused on the Site of Pınarbaşı

    Linjie Wang Community Participation and Governmentality: Ethnographic Research on the Making of Baiku Yao Ethnic Minority Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southwest China

    Tia Watkins Architectural Dynamics: The Sociopolitical Underpinnings of Monumentality in The Maya Lowlands

    Conner Welty A Morphometric Analysis of Down Syndrome for Application on Human Skeletal Remains

    Patrick Wiley Post-Medieval Archaeology in Epping Forest: Case Studies of Non-Invasive Surveying Methods for Metropolitan Open Spaces in the UK

    Caitlin Withnell Functional adaptation among early stone tool assemblages in south-eastern Wallacea and north-western Australia

     

    • Y

    Shiyu Yang Ports and Transregional Interactions on the Eastern Silk Roads: A Case Study from the Shandong Peninsula, China

    Ying Yang Wood Use in the Terracotta Army Pits and Mausoleum of China’s First Emperor

    Valerie Yeung Tracing the Glass Road: Complex network analysis of plant ash glass trade in Early Islamic Central Asia

    Su Yin Protecting Chinese traditional villages as cultural landscapes

    Yawei You The impact of climate change on agriculture between mid-Holocene and Early Bronze age

    • Z

    Victoria Ziegler A study of urban trans-location in early medieval England: occupation identities in Saxon London 770-1020

    Chenxing Zhao Participatory Research on the System of Mixed Reality (MR): How Does Social-economic, Cultural and Ethnic Backgrounds Affect Visitors’ Experience in Museums?

    Jinyue Zhang Heritage Database Strategies in Chinese and Global Contexts

    Yu Zhuang Theorising Practice: Development of Archaeological Fieldwork in Late Modern Egypt and China c. 1880–1952