Appointment of Dr. Richard Jennings
The Department is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Richard Jennings to the post of lecturer in prehistory and as our new adult education coordinator.
Richard graduated from Auckland University with an M.A. in Anthropology and completed his doctorate at Oxford University in 2007 on the late survival of Neanderthal populations of southern Iberia. He lectured at Oxford Brookes University and at the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford in 2010 before taking up his position at Cork in 2011. The main focus of his research is on using a combination of fieldwork and bioclimatic modelling to help interpret Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site distribution patterns in mid-latitude areas of the world. He is part of research projects ongoing in southern Iberia, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. Richard also has a strong interest in Irish Archaeology where he has more than four years of experience working as a GIS consultant and archaeological site director for Kilkenny Archaeology. He is actively searching for the elusive Palaeolithic in Ireland and is co-founder of the Dungarvan Valley Caves Project.
