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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
David s 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 Department s research activities, and its implication in the concerns of communities, their identities and politics remains an important aspect of the Department s 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 Cadw s Environmental Archaeologist,
Astrid Caseldine, is based in the Department. The Department is close to
the University s computing facilities and Media Centre (TV studio, digital
video editing suites, video-conferencing). The Department was rated 4
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