Archaeology and Palaeoecology Queen's University Belfast

Overview

By joining Archaeology and Palaeoecology programme at Queen's University Belfast students become part of a dynamic group of researchers in one of two interdisciplinary Research Cells: PLANET for more environmentally-related projects, and PAST for more humanities-related Archaeology projects. Research in the PAST cluster explores the material manifestations of culture through time and space. Innovative scientific methods are combined with theoretically-informed analyses to understand past human experience, bringing together the humanities and the sciences. The combination of environmental archaeology, and especially bio-archaeology, with more traditional approaches to the past helps to differentiate the discipline and is seen as both a strength and stimulus to future developments.

Features

Both the PLANET and PAST Research Cells are strongly interdisciplinary and incorporate researchers from other subject areas across the School, working closely together to develop research that takes into consideration both the social and environmental context of human society. Both clusters conduct research in Ireland, Great Britain and abroad, in particular the Mediterranean region, territories of the former Soviet Union, the North Atlantic, West Africa and the Americas, where staff and research students undertake collaborative projects. Research students maintain their own research seminar series alongside the fortnightly seminars organised by the two research clusters, which routinely bring outstanding scholars from abroad as well as Great Britain and Ireland.