Visiting post-docs:
2019 Dr Eline Schotsmans, University of Wollongong, University of Bordeaux
2019 Dr Anne Marie Sohler, University of Otago
Current research students:
2021 Lauren Richards (Masters) Bone health and social inequality
2018 Madeleine Green (PhD, Chair) Hominin fossil histology and behaviour
2018 Karen Cooke (PhD, Chair) Histopathology of treponemal disease in archaeological human bone
2018 Tahlia Stewart (PhD, Chair)The effect of different dietary regimes on human bone physiology
2017 Chelsea Morgan (PhD, Chair) Bioarchaeology of sex and gender
Completed theses:
2019 Hannah Miles (Masters) Osteocyte lacunae morphology in medieval human bone
2019 Nathalia Dias Guimaraes (Masters) Human Palaeohistology at Santana Do Riacho: First insights into bone adaptation of the first Americans
2019 Meg Walker (Masters) Ancient human behaviour and ancestry in Holocene northern Vietnam: A palaeohistological analysis of the Man Bac burial population
2019 Kate Phillips (Masters) The relationship of sex, age, and physical activity to bone maintenance and loss: Implications for bioarchaeological research (with JCSMR)
2019 Sarah Robertson (PhD) Differential diagnosis of cribra orbitalia at Christ Church Spitalfields via micro-CT analysis (primary supervisor)
2018 Tara Mann (Honours) Tibia vara and obesity: exploring the utility of tibia vara as a differential diagnostic option in the inference of obesity in palaeopathology.
2018 Diana Tieppo (Masters) Investigating sex-specific variation in bone microstructure of the midshaft endo-cortex in the human femur: Implications for identifying osteoporotic markers in archaeological populations.
2018 Danielle Rosenquist (Masters) Digital bones: Differential remodelling activity in the phalanges of the hands and the feet
2017 Coco James (Masters) Femoral muscle markings and endosteal cortex bone remodelling: Implications for behavioural inferences in bioarchaeology
2017 Stephanie Robinson (Masters) Chalcolithic Wedge Tombs and an Iron Age Burial: An osteobiography and trauma assessment of an individual from the Burren, County Clare, Ireland
2017 Bronwyn Wyatt (Masters) Health and disease in prehistoric Indonesia: placing the Northern Moluccas Islands in to context within broader Southeast Asian prehistory
2017 Claire Rider (Masters) Hip joint pathology and lower limb skeletal adaptation: a case study from the Metal Period Philippines
2016 Natasha Langley (Masters) The effects of experimental burning on Sus scrofa fental enamel in forensic and archaeological contexts
2016 Ashley Bridge (Masters) Bridging the gap: Looking at new ways to identify stature in forensics using contemporary Australian anthropometric data
2014 Rosie Pitfield (Masters) Histomorphometry in the human humerus during ontogeny (co-supervisor, University of Kent)
Research students I advise as part of their panels:
2019 Pauline Basilia (PhD, panel member) Beyond dwarfing: examining insular dwarfism of Stegodon sp. fossil remains from Southeast Asia (Griffith University, Brisbane)
2019 Madeleine Fleming (Masters, panel member) Bone in-E-quality: do trabecular parameters reveal a fragile sub-set of T2 Diabetic fractures? (ANU, John Curtin School of Medical Research)
2018 Stephanie August (Masters) Enamel diagenesis and its implication for radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis: a novel application of dental histology (ANU)
2017 Lauren Meckel (PhD, panel member) Health of Irish Famine victims. (University of Otago)
2016 Lauren McFarlane (PhD, panel member) The effects of differing water types on the decomposition of bone in aquatic contexts. (ANU)
Undergraduate & graduate students in the lab doing shorter-term projects:
2019 Bryce Campbell (graduate) Fossil crocodile tooth histology through time in Australia
2019 Elizabeth Drew (undergraduate) Relationship between osteocyte lacuna shape and osteocyte function.
2018 Annie Backshall (graduate) The relationship of posterior human palate morphology to ancestral origin.
2018 Meg Walker (graduate) Palaeohistology of wombat humerus
2018 Gabrielle Smith (undergraduate) Biorhythms in human hard tissues
2018 Bonnie Taylor (undergraduate) "Giant" secondary osteons
2018 Josephine Tucker (undergraduate) Investigating anaemia in archaeological human populations
2017 Sian McInnes (graduate) Intra-observer error in recording entheseal changes
2017 Kate Phillips (graduate) Osteon population density and determine anatomical location of human femur
2017 Brendan Bayliss (graduate) Inferring behaviour from femoral robusticity and diaphyseal measures
2016 Tahlia Stewart (graduate) Skeletal growth rates in archaeological humans
2016 Amy-Marie Beugelsdyk (graduate) Osteon circularity in ancient human cortical bone
2016 Meg Walker (undergraduate) Human paleophysiology in Medieval England
2016 Tara Mann (undergraduate) 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
2019 Dr Eline Schotsmans, University of Wollongong, University of Bordeaux
2019 Dr Anne Marie Sohler, University of Otago
Current research students:
2021 Lauren Richards (Masters) Bone health and social inequality
2018 Madeleine Green (PhD, Chair) Hominin fossil histology and behaviour
2018 Karen Cooke (PhD, Chair) Histopathology of treponemal disease in archaeological human bone
2018 Tahlia Stewart (PhD, Chair)The effect of different dietary regimes on human bone physiology
2017 Chelsea Morgan (PhD, Chair) Bioarchaeology of sex and gender
Completed theses:
2019 Hannah Miles (Masters) Osteocyte lacunae morphology in medieval human bone
2019 Nathalia Dias Guimaraes (Masters) Human Palaeohistology at Santana Do Riacho: First insights into bone adaptation of the first Americans
2019 Meg Walker (Masters) Ancient human behaviour and ancestry in Holocene northern Vietnam: A palaeohistological analysis of the Man Bac burial population
2019 Kate Phillips (Masters) The relationship of sex, age, and physical activity to bone maintenance and loss: Implications for bioarchaeological research (with JCSMR)
2019 Sarah Robertson (PhD) Differential diagnosis of cribra orbitalia at Christ Church Spitalfields via micro-CT analysis (primary supervisor)
2018 Tara Mann (Honours) Tibia vara and obesity: exploring the utility of tibia vara as a differential diagnostic option in the inference of obesity in palaeopathology.
2018 Diana Tieppo (Masters) Investigating sex-specific variation in bone microstructure of the midshaft endo-cortex in the human femur: Implications for identifying osteoporotic markers in archaeological populations.
2018 Danielle Rosenquist (Masters) Digital bones: Differential remodelling activity in the phalanges of the hands and the feet
2017 Coco James (Masters) Femoral muscle markings and endosteal cortex bone remodelling: Implications for behavioural inferences in bioarchaeology
2017 Stephanie Robinson (Masters) Chalcolithic Wedge Tombs and an Iron Age Burial: An osteobiography and trauma assessment of an individual from the Burren, County Clare, Ireland
2017 Bronwyn Wyatt (Masters) Health and disease in prehistoric Indonesia: placing the Northern Moluccas Islands in to context within broader Southeast Asian prehistory
2017 Claire Rider (Masters) Hip joint pathology and lower limb skeletal adaptation: a case study from the Metal Period Philippines
2016 Natasha Langley (Masters) The effects of experimental burning on Sus scrofa fental enamel in forensic and archaeological contexts
2016 Ashley Bridge (Masters) Bridging the gap: Looking at new ways to identify stature in forensics using contemporary Australian anthropometric data
2014 Rosie Pitfield (Masters) Histomorphometry in the human humerus during ontogeny (co-supervisor, University of Kent)
Research students I advise as part of their panels:
2019 Pauline Basilia (PhD, panel member) Beyond dwarfing: examining insular dwarfism of Stegodon sp. fossil remains from Southeast Asia (Griffith University, Brisbane)
2019 Madeleine Fleming (Masters, panel member) Bone in-E-quality: do trabecular parameters reveal a fragile sub-set of T2 Diabetic fractures? (ANU, John Curtin School of Medical Research)
2018 Stephanie August (Masters) Enamel diagenesis and its implication for radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis: a novel application of dental histology (ANU)
2017 Lauren Meckel (PhD, panel member) Health of Irish Famine victims. (University of Otago)
2016 Lauren McFarlane (PhD, panel member) The effects of differing water types on the decomposition of bone in aquatic contexts. (ANU)
Undergraduate & graduate students in the lab doing shorter-term projects:
2019 Bryce Campbell (graduate) Fossil crocodile tooth histology through time in Australia
2019 Elizabeth Drew (undergraduate) Relationship between osteocyte lacuna shape and osteocyte function.
2018 Annie Backshall (graduate) The relationship of posterior human palate morphology to ancestral origin.
2018 Meg Walker (graduate) Palaeohistology of wombat humerus
2018 Gabrielle Smith (undergraduate) Biorhythms in human hard tissues
2018 Bonnie Taylor (undergraduate) "Giant" secondary osteons
2018 Josephine Tucker (undergraduate) Investigating anaemia in archaeological human populations
2017 Sian McInnes (graduate) Intra-observer error in recording entheseal changes
2017 Kate Phillips (graduate) Osteon population density and determine anatomical location of human femur
2017 Brendan Bayliss (graduate) Inferring behaviour from femoral robusticity and diaphyseal measures
2016 Tahlia Stewart (graduate) Skeletal growth rates in archaeological humans
2016 Amy-Marie Beugelsdyk (graduate) Osteon circularity in ancient human cortical bone
2016 Meg Walker (undergraduate) Human paleophysiology in Medieval England
2016 Tara Mann (undergraduate) 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
