Biography
I was a senior leader in a secondary school with a focus on classroom practice and student welfare and a career teacher of history until 2019 when I decided to train as an osteologist. I have an MSc in Landscape Archaeology (2017) and an MSc in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology (2021). My dissertation focussed on the extent of interpersonal violence in the Anglo-Saxon period using osteology reports and a collection from Cambridge city museum service.
Research
My main research interests are Anthropology and Bioarchaeology. My particular interest is in skeletal evidence of trauma. In particular, I am interested in Intimate Partner Violence against women in the early Medieval period in England. I am looking at skeletal evidence for Intimate Partner Violence from Anglo-Saxon cemetery collections and assessing the extent to which women were likely to have been subjected to violence by their partners. I am using recent data on IPV from hospital trauma units to identify likely areas for fractures and modern studies on the causes of IPV.
Key Publications
Moated Manors in Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Archaeology 2019).
