Postgraduate Studies
The Department of Archaeology offers research masters (MPhil) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degree programmes for students interested in undertaking research in archaeology.
The Department also offers one-year taught masters degrees in the area of human osteoarchaeology, excavation practice and (new for 2012/13) archaeological geoinformatics.
The Department offers a one-year Higher Diploma in Archaeology for graduates in cognate disciplines wishing to convert to postgraduate studies in archaeology.
Staff members are available to supervise postgraduate research in the following areas:
Ms Rose Cleary MA
Irish prehistoric pottery from Neolithic to Late Bronze Age; technical analyses of fabric and production methods and the potter’s craft in antiquity; pottery studies of the Lower Shannon catchment area; the Lough Gur landscape.
Mr Nick Hogan MA
Archaeological geophysics; GIS applications in archaeology.
Mr Michael Monk M.Litt.
Archaeobotanical studies; agriculture in prehistoric and early historic Ireland; early urban hinterland studies and early medieval settlement archaeology; environmental archaeology sampling; excavation techniques and formation history studies.
Professor William O'Brien
Early metallurgy and metal-using societies in Ireland and Atlantic Europe; the, Bronze Age and Iron Age in Ireland; prehistoric ritual monuments and religious belief; landscape archaeology; mining archaeology; the prehistory of south-west Ireland; the prehistoric archaeology of the Cork region.
Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin
Early medieval architecture with particular reference to Ireland; layout and organization of early ecclesiastical sites; archaeological approaches to medieval ritual practices including pilgrimage; early medieval landscape and settlement archaeology.
Dr Barra Ó Donnabháin
Bioarchaeology; Biological anthropology; hospitals and healthcare in medieval Ireland; Viking Age migration in the North Atlantic; Celts and the archaeology of identity; mortuary theory and commemoration; performative violence in medieval Ireland.
Dr Ron Pinhasi
The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Caucasus; Neanderthal morphology and biogeography; the Neolithic transition in the Near East and Anatolia; prehistoric migrations and dispersals; palaeoeopathology, growth and development in past populations.
Dr Colin Rynne
Technological development and social agency in early medieval Europe; later medieval agriculture in Ireland; the archaeology of post-medieval and later historic Ireland; buildings archaeology and conservation strategy.
Mr John Sheehan MA
Ecclesiastical archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland; Viking age silver in Ireland and Britain; Irish settlement in the north Atlantic region.
