Current visiting post-docs:
Dr Eline Schotsmans, University of Wollongong, University of Bordeaux
Dr Anne Marie Sohler, University of Otago
Current research students:
Lauren Richards (Masters) Bone health and social inequality
Madeleine Green (PhD, Chair) Hominin fossil histology and behaviour
Karen Cooke (PhD, Chair) Histopathology of treponemal disease in archaeological human bone
Tahlia Stewart (PhD, Chair)The effect of different dietary regimes on human bone physiology
Chelsea Morgan (PhD, Chair) Bioarchaeology of sex and gender
Supervisory panel member:
Pau Basilia (PhD) Examining insular dwarfism in SEA Stegodon sp. fossils (Griffith University)
Madeleine Fleming (MPhil) Trabecular parameters and T2 Diabetic fractures (ANU, JCSMR)
Lauren Meckel (PhD) Health of Irish Famine victims (University of Otago)
Nicole Macfarlane (PhD) The effects of differing water types on the decomposition of bone in aquatic contexts (ANU)
Completed student projects:
2019 Hannah Miles (Masters) Osteocyte lacunae morphology in medieval human bone
2019 Nathalia Dias Guimaraes (Masters) Human Palaeohistology at Santana Do Riacho
2019 Meg Walker (Masters) Ancient human behaviour and ancestry in Holocene northern Vietnam
2019 Kate Phillips (Masters) Sex, age, and physical activity and bone maintenance and loss
2019 Sarah Robertson (PhD) Differential diagnosis of cribra orbitalia at Christ Church Spitalfields via micro-CT
2018 Tara Mann (Honours) Tibia vara and obesity
2018 Diana Tieppo (Masters) Sex-specific bone microstructure of the midshaft femur
2018 Danielle Rosenquist (Masters) Remodelling in the phalanges of the hands and the feet
2017 Coco James (Masters) Femoral muscle markings and endosteal cortex bone remodelling
2017 Stephanie Robinson (Masters) Chalcolithic Wedge Tombs and an Iron Age Burial
2017 Bronwyn Wyatt (Masters) Health and disease in prehistoric Indonesia
2017 Claire Rider (Masters) Hip joint pathology and lower limb skeletal adaptation
2016 Natasha Langley (Masters) The effects of experimental burning on Sus scrofa enamel
2016 Ashley Bridge (Masters) Stature in forensics using Australian anthropometric data
2014 Rosie Pitfield (Masters) Histomorphometry in the human humerus during ontogeny (co-supervisor, University of Kent)
Undergraduate (UG) & graduate (PG) shorter projects:
2020 Oyundari Batbayar (PG) Dental health in prehistoric Indonesia
2020 Alex Isaac (PG) Linear enamel hypoplasia and enamel secretion rates
2019 Bryce Campbell (PG) Fossil crocodile tooth histology through time in Australia
2019 Elizabeth Drew (UG) Relationship between osteocyte lacuna shape and osteocyte function
2018 Annie Backshall (PG) The relationship of posterior human palate morphology to ancestral origin
2018 Meg Walker (PG) Palaeohistology of wombat humerus
2018 Gabrielle Smith (UG) Biorhythms in human hard tissues
2018 Bonnie Taylor (UG) "Giant" secondary osteons
2018 Josephine Tucker (UG) Investigating anaemia in archaeological human populations
2017 Sian McInnes (PG) Intra-observer error in recording entheseal changes
2017 Kate Phillips (PG) Osteon population density and determine anatomical location of human femur
2017 Brendan Bayliss (PG) Inferring behaviour from femoral robusticity and diaphyseal measures
2016 Tahlia Stewart (PG) Skeletal growth rates in archaeological humans
2016 Amy-Marie Beugelsdyk (PG) Osteon circularity in ancient human cortical bone
2016 Meg Walker (UG) Human paleophysiology in Medieval England
2016 Tara Mann (UG) Reading between the lines: The aetiology of the Harris line
Australian Academy of Science Internships:
2017 Daisy Wang Policy position in science
2017 Tegan Cassell Animals in research: A researcher's guideline to communication
Dr Eline Schotsmans, University of Wollongong, University of Bordeaux
Dr Anne Marie Sohler, University of Otago
Current research students:
Lauren Richards (Masters) Bone health and social inequality
Madeleine Green (PhD, Chair) Hominin fossil histology and behaviour
Karen Cooke (PhD, Chair) Histopathology of treponemal disease in archaeological human bone
Tahlia Stewart (PhD, Chair)The effect of different dietary regimes on human bone physiology
Chelsea Morgan (PhD, Chair) Bioarchaeology of sex and gender
Supervisory panel member:
Pau Basilia (PhD) Examining insular dwarfism in SEA Stegodon sp. fossils (Griffith University)
Madeleine Fleming (MPhil) Trabecular parameters and T2 Diabetic fractures (ANU, JCSMR)
Lauren Meckel (PhD) Health of Irish Famine victims (University of Otago)
Nicole Macfarlane (PhD) The effects of differing water types on the decomposition of bone in aquatic contexts (ANU)
Completed student projects:
2019 Hannah Miles (Masters) Osteocyte lacunae morphology in medieval human bone
2019 Nathalia Dias Guimaraes (Masters) Human Palaeohistology at Santana Do Riacho
2019 Meg Walker (Masters) Ancient human behaviour and ancestry in Holocene northern Vietnam
2019 Kate Phillips (Masters) Sex, age, and physical activity and bone maintenance and loss
2019 Sarah Robertson (PhD) Differential diagnosis of cribra orbitalia at Christ Church Spitalfields via micro-CT
2018 Tara Mann (Honours) Tibia vara and obesity
2018 Diana Tieppo (Masters) Sex-specific bone microstructure of the midshaft femur
2018 Danielle Rosenquist (Masters) Remodelling in the phalanges of the hands and the feet
2017 Coco James (Masters) Femoral muscle markings and endosteal cortex bone remodelling
2017 Stephanie Robinson (Masters) Chalcolithic Wedge Tombs and an Iron Age Burial
2017 Bronwyn Wyatt (Masters) Health and disease in prehistoric Indonesia
2017 Claire Rider (Masters) Hip joint pathology and lower limb skeletal adaptation
2016 Natasha Langley (Masters) The effects of experimental burning on Sus scrofa enamel
2016 Ashley Bridge (Masters) Stature in forensics using Australian anthropometric data
2014 Rosie Pitfield (Masters) Histomorphometry in the human humerus during ontogeny (co-supervisor, University of Kent)
Undergraduate (UG) & graduate (PG) shorter projects:
2020 Oyundari Batbayar (PG) Dental health in prehistoric Indonesia
2020 Alex Isaac (PG) Linear enamel hypoplasia and enamel secretion rates
2019 Bryce Campbell (PG) Fossil crocodile tooth histology through time in Australia
2019 Elizabeth Drew (UG) Relationship between osteocyte lacuna shape and osteocyte function
2018 Annie Backshall (PG) The relationship of posterior human palate morphology to ancestral origin
2018 Meg Walker (PG) Palaeohistology of wombat humerus
2018 Gabrielle Smith (UG) Biorhythms in human hard tissues
2018 Bonnie Taylor (UG) "Giant" secondary osteons
2018 Josephine Tucker (UG) Investigating anaemia in archaeological human populations
2017 Sian McInnes (PG) Intra-observer error in recording entheseal changes
2017 Kate Phillips (PG) Osteon population density and determine anatomical location of human femur
2017 Brendan Bayliss (PG) Inferring behaviour from femoral robusticity and diaphyseal measures
2016 Tahlia Stewart (PG) Skeletal growth rates in archaeological humans
2016 Amy-Marie Beugelsdyk (PG) Osteon circularity in ancient human cortical bone
2016 Meg Walker (UG) Human paleophysiology in Medieval England
2016 Tara Mann (UG) Reading between the lines: The aetiology of the Harris line
Australian Academy of Science Internships:
2017 Daisy Wang Policy position in science
2017 Tegan Cassell Animals in research: A researcher's guideline to communication
