Postgraduate Research

We have a flourishing PhD community within the School of Archaeology. If you would like to apply to undertake a PhD with us please visit the postgraduate section of our web site for further information and procedures.

Current PhD Researchers

• Claybrook, Danielle: The culture of urban consumption 1600-1850: a Co. Mayo case study
• Corcoran, Michael: Expanding Landscapes: reappraisal of agricultural systems and enclosure in Ireland, AD 1100 – 1800
• Curran, Susan: A remote sensing approach to settlement patterns, identity and social hierarchy in Ireland,  AD 400-1100
• Duffett Carlson, KS: A biomechanical perspective on understanding facial variation and dietary transitions
• Duffy, Martin: Settlement and Landscape In The Early Medieval Kingdom Of Brega, AD 400-1100
• Fernandes, Daniel: Population variation following the Neolithic revolution, the palaeogenetics of southern Europeans
• Freilich, Suzanne: Genetic diversity and social stratification in Prehistoric and Medieval Balkans
• Galbari, Allison: Archaeology of the places, myths, folklore and modern celebrations of Ireland’s festivals
• Gilhooly, Bernard: An investigation into the mechanical properties and uses of Irish shale and porcellanite axes
• Gilligan, Nikolah: Agriculture, food production and consumption in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1200
• Grant, Christine: Settling the Prehistoric Landscape: the Burren Uplands, Co. Clare
• Guglielmi, Alexandra: Roman material culture and Iron Age dress in Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, AD 1-500
• Kelly, Niamh: Coarse Stone Tools in Early Irish Prehistory
• L'Estrange, Maeve: Food, culture and identity in medieval Ireland AD1200-1500
• Mallía-Guest, Sol: The use of flint in the Irish Neolithic
• Meegan, Eimear: Agency and Social Dynamism in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland and Malta
• Mc Call, Ashley: Diet and Mobility through the Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age
• O'Neill, Brendan:Craft, Industry and Society in Early medieval Ireland
• O'Sullivan, Niall: The application of next generation sequencing to Archaeology
• Powers, Mark: Defining Landscape Use and Activity Strategy in Mesolithic Leicestershire, England
• Stone, David: The Landscape of Medieval B?rd?, Azerbaijan 6th - 13th Centuries AD
• Stevens, Paul: The role of the church in the expansion of the early medieval Irish economy, AD 400-1100
• Tillison, Kevin: Understanding wood and woodcraft in early medieval Ireland, A.D. 400-1200
• Watters, Andrea: The siting of megalithic monuments in relation to geological bedrock formations
• Williams, Margaret: The symbolical and social significance of iron in prehistoric and early medieval Ireland

Previous Postgraduates

2016

• Ash, Abigail: Farming and Forging: Stress, behaviour, and health in central European populations
• Colfer, Nial: Turning Stone into Bread: Millstone Quarries in Post-Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
• Harney, Lorcan: Church in early medieval Ireland, archaeological perspectives on the sacred and profane, AD 400-1100 
• Ó Murchú, Séamus: The Blackstairs Mountains, South East Ireland; Archaeological Potential of an Upland Landscape

2015

• Dempsey, Karen: Freestanding 13th century castle halls 
• Rice, Kim: Understanding Neolithic settlement and society in Dublin/Wicklow uplands and Lowlands

2014

• De Groote, Kevin - The Art of Combat  
• Ni Lionáin, Clíodhna - Irish-Iberian connections in prehistory
• Scharding, Laura - Red-light Philadelphia, 1850-1900

2013

• Lafaye, Anne-Julie: An Archaeology of the Mendicant Orders
• Parnell, Catherine: Curved blades in ancient Greece

2012 

• Boyd, Rebecca - Norse Houses in Ireland and Western Britain 
• Carlin, Neil - Beaker material culture in Ireland
• Dolan, Brian - Ironworking in early medieval Ireland
• Megarry, Will - A Fresh Look at Minoan Peak Sancturies

2011

• Doyle, Maureen - Dress, ornament and bodily identities
• Nicholl, Triona - Houses and daily life in medieval Ireland
• O'Donnell, Lorna: Woodlands,Charcoal & Prehistoric Ireland
• Prendergast, Frank - Archaeoastronomy & Passage Tombs of Ireland
• Parker, Madeleine - Archaeology of manuscript recipe books  
• Ullrich, Johanna - Geoarchaeology & land use, Achill, Co. Mayo
• Whelan, David: Landscape, Settlement & Society in West Waterford 

2010

• Driscoll, Killian - Understanding quartz technology
• Greene, Sharon - Settlement & Identity, Connacht's Atlantic Isles
• Little, Aimée - Mesolithic identities, memeory and meaning
• Nugent, Louise - Medieval Pilgrimage in Ireland, AD 600-1600
• Quirke, Sinead - Architecture & Identity, Plantation-era Miunster

2009

• Keating, Denise - Childhood in early medieval Ireland 
• McGarry, Tiernan - Burials of the Irish Iron Age
• Ó Riain, Diarmuid - Ireland and Germany in the Twelfth Century

2007

• Brady, Conor - Earlier Prehistoric Settlement, Boyne Valley
• Cummins, Thomas - Archaeology of Anthropogenic Soils in Ireland
• Kador, Thomas - People, Landscape & Mobility, Mesolithic Ireland
• Smyth, Jessica: Settlement in Neolithic Ireland

2006

• Becker, Katharina - Hoards & deposition, Bronze/Iron Age Ireland
• Tierney, Andrew - Building Identity: Gaelic-Irish Castles
• O'Flaherty, Ronan - Early Bronze Age Halberd in Ireland
• O'Connor, Blaze - Prehistoric Rock Art
• Ní Cheallaigh, Máirín: How 'monuments' are understood