Post-Doc, Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
National Museum of Ireland, Natural History Division
University of Nottingham, Dept. of Archaeology
Research Associate
About
I recently have taken up a 3-year post-doctoral research position with School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences with Unversity College Cork, Ireland.
I am a professional ecologist and animal osteologist with extensive experience of extant and extinct Irish and British Pleistocene and Holocene faunal species, in terms of biology, ecology and faunal skeletal analysis. I have a special ongoing interest in deer ecology, biology, natural history and deer management.
I am an occasional lecturer on Animal Osteology in UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin since 2007.
I have been a Research Associate (funded externally through research grants) with the Natural History Division of the National Museum of Ireland (NMINH) since 2008. My research interests straddles the boundaries of a number of disciplines, archaeology, zoology, biology, ecology, palaeontology and natural history and as such, my approach is highly collaborative and I am involved in a wide variety of research teams (academic, public and commercial) examining the (palaeo)ecological and biological fields of the Irish and British fauna within a European context. As an individual researcher and in conjunction with collaborators, I have successfully attained many research grants which have facilitated completion of various studies, on a part-time basis.
I am a part-time Postdoctoral Research Associate on The Fallow Deer Project: Fallow deer and European Society 6000 BC - AD 1600, University of Nottingham, where I specialise on osteometrics. The Principal Investigator of this exciting project is Dr Naomi Sykes.
For further details on this three year Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project and the multidisciplinary team please follow this link:
http://www.fallow-deer-project.net/
I use an integrated collaborative combined approach through the formation of research teams for addressing certain research questions and thus use the combined information/data derived from distinct, yet complementary fields of science such as osteoarchaeology, morphometrics, morphology, population and conservation genetics, modern and ancient molecular-based techniques, phylogeography, colonisation events/history, climatic (palaeo)data and historical written documentation.
All papers are available upon request, just e-mail me.
