Education
2017- PhD Candidate LJMU
PhD Thesis: The Importance of Birds in the Palaeolithic (working title).
Richard Jennings (LJMU), Clive Finlayson (Gibraltar National Museum/LJMU), Antonio Sanchez-Marco (ICP), Joel Irish (LJMU).
LJMU funded.
2011 University of Bergen, Norway. MPhil, Archaeology
Courses: Cape Field School, South Africa, Theory and Method, Thesis design.
MSc Thesis: ‘Them’ or ‘Us’? A question of Cognition: The Case for Neanderthal Modernity.
Lars Forsberg, Christopher Henshilwood.
2004 University of Bergen, Norway. BA, Arts and Social Sciences
Courses: Archaeology, English Literature and Culture.
BSc / BA Thesis: The Levantine Neanderthals. Randi Haaland, Christopher Henshilwood.
Research Experience
2015 – Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre, Canada
Research Intern:
Field work and lab work based at the Tumbler Ridge Museum in BC, Canada.
2016 – Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre, Canada
Six Peaks Dinosaur Tracksite Excavation:
Excavation, preparation, replication, study and conservation of the Six Peaks Dinosaur Tracksite near Hudson’s Hope, BC, Canada.
2016-2017 – MOLAHeadland Infrastructure
Project Archaeologist and Supervisor on the A14 mitigation project in Cambridgeshire. Excavating remains of Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British settlements.
2017- present – Gibraltar National Museum Gorham’s Cave Complex excavations
My responsibilities in the project have expanded from excavation and labwork in the first season to Supervision of students and co-directing an excavation area in more recent years.
Teaching Experience
February/2018 – present.
Demonstrator at LJMU in a variety of subjects related to archaeology, forensic anthropology, biology, and ecology.
Skills
Laboratory protocol, Microscopy, Photorammetry, Taphonomy (avian and mammal), Avian Taxonomy, Archaeological Excavation.
Languages
English, Norwegian (fluent), German (basic), Spanish (basic).
Research Centre for Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology 