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University of Wales, Lampeter Department of Archaeology TWO RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS Following its achievement of a grade 4 in the recent RAE, the Department of Archaeology is offering two research studentships, including fees and a maintenance grant of #6500. Each is for a period of two or three years depending on qualifications, to enable the award holders to register for a Ph.D. The Studentships will be tenable from either 1st October 2002 or 1st January 2003. Candidates who do not already have a Master's qualification will initially be registered for a MPhil. It is anticipated that at least one of the award holders will have a research focus within Wales, and that both studentships will be in an area of expertise of a current member of staff (see further particulars). As part of the grant, successful candidates will be expected to undertake a small amount of tutorial/seminar teaching and demonstrating within the Department. There are no application forms. Letters of application, accompanied by a full CV and the names of two referees, should reach the Personnel Assistant, University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales SA48 7ED UK by 23rd August 2002. Interviews will be held in the week beginning 2nd September. Telephone 44 (0)1570 424703; fax 44 (0)1570 423423; e-mail [log in to unmask] FURTHER PARTICULARS THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES, LAMPETER The University of Wales, Lampeter, in the form of its predecessor St Davidms College, is the oldest degree awarding institution in England and Wales outside Cambridge and Oxford. In 1969 it was incorporated into the University of Wales, and is now a constituent college of that federal body. With approximately 1400 students, it is the smallest university institution in Britain, but it has all the facilities of a modern university, albeit within an attractive and distinctive rural setting. LAMPETER ARCHAEOLOGY Since its foundation in 1989, the Department of Archaeology at Lampeter has grown and flourished in a way unprecedented among British archaeology departments. In the late 1980s and 1990s the Department pushed forward the critical debates in theoretical archaeology, but has now moved on to define and practise an integrated, theorised research programme. At Lampeter, theory is strongly related to the concept of landscape as a source for holistic and critical accounts of social action and production in the past and present. Landscape has always been central to the Departmentms research activities, and its implication in the concerns of communities, their identities and politics remains an important aspect of the Departmentms research programme. Closely involved in this is the understanding, through scientific study, of the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment, and hence environmental archaeology has long been the third major component of our research portfolio. The Department has also shared in the creation of a new Department of Anthropology at Lampeter, which has considerably strengthened the work of members of the Department of Archaeology who have interests in the linkage between anthropology and archaeology. Details of the specific research interests of individual staff are presented below. The Department of Archaeology, with 13 lecturing staff, complemented by research and support staff, and with approximately 200 full time equivalent students (including 25 postgraduate students), is now the largest unit in the School of Social Sciences. There are strong teaching and research links both within the School (with Geography, for example) and with departments in other schools within the University, including Anthropology, Classics, and Theology. The Department is particularly well equipped for postgraduate research. It has three recently-refurbished environmental research laboratories, a material culture laboratory and a computing laboratory (GIS, graphics, survey and multimedia). The Department holds the Cadw (Welsh Historic Monuments) contract for Environmental Archaeology and Cadwms Environmental Archaeologist, Astrid Caseldine, is based in the Department. The Department is close to the Universityms computing facilities and Media Centre (TV studio, digital video editing suites, video-conferencing). The Department was rated k4m in the recent Research Assessment Exercise and received an Excellent grade for its teaching in the latest Teaching Quality Assessment. DEGREE SCHEMES The following degree schemes are offered within the Department: Undergraduate: Archaeology Archaeology (Environmental) Archaeology (World Cultures) Archaeology (Practice) Archaeology and Anthropology Ancient History and Archaeology Postgraduate: Diploma/MA in Cultural Landscape Management Diploma/MA in Landscape Management & Environmental Archaeology Diploma/MA in Cultural Heritage Management Archaeological Research (MA) STAFF (a) Full-time lecturing staff David Austin BA (Southampton) DipArch (Durham) FSA Professor and Head of School Research interests: Archaeology of medieval communities and their landscapes Theory of medieval archaeology Medieval castles Martin Bates BSc Ph.D. (London) Lecturer Research interests: Estuarine and marine Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeogeography of southern England The combined use of geophyiscal and geotechnical investigation techniques in the prospection of deeply buried archaeological sites Holocene floodplain archaeology and sedimentology of the lower Thames valley Brian Boyd MA (Glasgow) PhD (Cambridge) Lecturer Research interests: The archaeology of the prehistoric Levant Social technologies Gender and embodiment Archaeological theory and the History & Philosophy of Science Cultural politics in Israel and Palestine Barry C. Burnham MA PhD (Cambridge) FSA MIFA Senior Lecturer and Pro-Vice Chancellor Research interests: Urbanisation in Roman Britain Native and Roman interaction in the north-west provinces Roman frontiers and urban studies Ros Coard BA PhD (Sheffield) Lecturer Research interests: Plio-Pleistocene fossil assemblages and faunal analysis Vertebrate taphonomy Human evolution and the archaeology of the earliest humans John Crowther BA (Cambridge), PhD (Hull) Reader and Chair of Department Research interests: Chemical and magnetic properties of soils/sediments Archaeological prospection Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction Penny Dransart DipArt MSt DPhil (Oxford) FSA FSA Scot Senior Lecturer Research interests: Pastoralism and relationships between human and herd animals Material culture of religion Textiles, dress and gender Latin American archaeology Kathy Fewster BA MA (Manchester) MPhil (Cambridge) PhD (Sheffield) Lecturer Research interests: Ethnoarchaeology Hunter-gatherers, the transition to agriculture in prehistoric Europe Archaeological theory Development anthropology Mark Pluciennik BA (Sheffield) PhD (Sheffield) Lecturer Research interests: Archaeological theory and philosophy The transition to farming in Europe The politics of archaeology and identity Late Antique to early Medieval settlement changes Paul Rainbird BA (Sheffield) PhD (Sydney) Lecturer Research interests: Pacific archaeology Australian archaeology Archaeology and anthropology of island societies Louise Steel, BA (Liverpool) Ph.D. (University College London) Lecturer Research interests: LBA ceramics ? production and consumption East Mediterranean interconnections Representations and identity Prehistoric Greece and Cyprus Bronze Age Gaza Mike Walker BA (Oxford) MSc (Calgary) PhD (Edinburgh) Professor of Quaternary Science Research interests Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction Lateglacial and Holocene climate change Stratigraphy, chronology and correlation Human impact on Holocene landscapes (b) Research and part-time lecturing staff Jesus Arenas Esteban PhD (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) Hogg Research Fellow Helen Burnham Part-time Lecturer Astrid Caseldine BSc (St Andrews) Cadw Environmental Archaeologist for Wales and Research Fellow Research interests: Vegetation history with particular reference to the effects of human activity Crop husbandry in Wales Exploitation of wetland environments Quentin Drew BA (Durham) Research Officer (Computing) Research interests: Archaeological imagery Architecture Modern and contemporary archaeology Dr Denise Druce BA (Wales) PhD (Bristol) Assistant Environmental Archaeologist Research interests: Bronze Age-Iron Age transition: Environment and settlement Holocene coastal environmental change and prehistoric occupation Prehistoric salt-production: social and economic implications Votive deposition in wetland environments Catherine Griffiths BA (Wales) MSc (Sheffield) Assistant Environmental Archaeologist (Cadw) Andrew Fleming MA (Cambridge) FSA Professor Research interests: The archaeology of prehistoric social organisation Method and theory in landscape archaeology Landscape archaeology and history in upland areas Nigel Nayling, B.A. (Durham) M.A. (Bradford) A.I.F.A. Dendrochronologist and Lecturer Research interests: Maritime archaeology Dendrochronology (c) Support staff Maureen Hunwicks Departmental Administrator Helen Lloyd BA (Wales) Business administrator, Heritage and Archaeology Research Practice Dee Williams BA (Wales) Administrative Assistant Research interests: Post medieval finds Portable antiquities (d) Honorary Research Fellows Gwilym Hughes Director of Cambria Archaeology Research interests Zimbabwe Charles Thomas Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Professor Research interests: Early medieval Archaeology Geoff Wainwright Honorary Fellow and former Head of English Heritage (Archaeology) Address: Department of Archaeology University of Wales Lampeter Ceredigion SA48 7ED UK 44 (0)1570 422351 44 (0)1570 423669 fax visit our web site for more information: www.lamp.ac.uk/archaeology