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My undergraduate study was undertaken in the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, New Zealand. My fourth-year Honours dissertation, also undertaken in that Department, investigated the interaction between gender and food practices in proto-historic Polynesia. After a five-year hiatus from all things academic, I embarked upon a PhD in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield in 2003. My doctoral research concerned the archaeology of the late medieval English peasantry and I focussed on ways in which applying certain theoretical comprehensions of power and resistance, as well as of the materiality of community and gender could elucidate aspects of peasant experience. On completion of the PhD in 2006, I worked in the department at Sheffield for six months as a Teaching Development Officer, a job which involved assisting in implementing Inquiry Based Learning into undergraduate archaeology modules. In 2007 I undertook a semester's teaching in the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, New Zealand where, among other things, I taught an undergraduate course entitled 'The Archaeology of Power'. I commenced my IRCHSS-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UCD in October of 2007.
