Professor Ian Ralston

Former research students (first or second supervisor) with whom I am still in touch include:

Derek ALEXANDER Aspects of the later prehistoric and protohistoric settlement of west central Scotland. M Phil 2003. Derek Alexander is an archaeologist with the National Trust for Scotland.

Gordon J. BARCLAY Ph D 2002. Dr Gordon Barclay submitted a portfolio of his publications on the Scottish Neolithic for his doctorate. Having been an Inspector of Ancient Monuments, he has now moved to a senior managerial position within Historic Scotland.

Emma R. CARVER The visibility of imported wine and its associated accoutrements in later Iron Age Britain. M Phil 2000. Emma’s thesis was published as BAR Brit Ser 325 in 2001. She in now Head of Interpretation at English Heritage.

Ruby CERON-CARRASCO ‘De iasg agus dhaione’. A study of the utlilization of marine resources as recovered from selected Hebridean archaeological sites. PhD 2002. Ruby has continued to work at postdoctoral level on fish remains and her thesis was published as BAR Brit Ser 400 in 2005.

Ciara CLARKE Fungal spores as palaeoenvironmental indicators of anthropogenic activity. Ph D 1995. Dr Clarke now occupies a senior position with the applied company, AOC, in Loanhead, Midlothian.

Andrew W. HOAEN The use of palynofacies analysis in archaeopalynology. Ph D 2000. Andy has worked for Glasgow University and the Open University notably in SW Scotland and also undertakes fieldwork, more particularly in the Matterdale area of Cumbria.

Mark W. HOLLEY The artificial islets of the central inner Hebrides. Ph D 1998. Mark’s PhD was published as BAR British Series 303 in 2000; he continues to be involved in underwater archaeology in his native Michigan.

Jane KENNEY The beginnings of agriculture in Britain: a critical assessment. Ph D 1993. After a period as a surveyor with RCHME, Jane Kenney has been working as a freelance excavator in Britain and overseas.

R. Celeste RAY Defining and managing a historic landscape: an interpretative approach to Scotland’s battlefields. MSc CRM 1991. Dr Ray completed her PhD at UNC Chapel Hill and is now Head of the Department of Anthropology at Sewanee, the University of the South, Tennessee.

Kirsty A. SABINE (Aberdeen M Litt) Kirsty Sabine’s MLitt was on the hut-circle groups of Highland Scotland. Before her untimely death, she ran a small archaeological contracting business in NE Scotland.

Adrian TAMS Soil micromorphology of archaeological deposits with particular reference to floor surfaces on settlement sites in the Western Isles, Scotland. Ph D 2003. Adrian went on to a post-doctoral position in Soil Science at Nottingham University.

Lucy VERRILL’s PhD was awarded in 2006 and she is now doing freelance work from her base in Leeds.

Jennifer E THOMS Aspects of economy and environment of north west Lewis in the first millennium AD: the non-marine faunal evidence from Bostadh and Beirgh considered within the framework of north Atlantic Scotland. Ph D 2004. Jennifer has been teaching in the UHI Millennium Institute network, doing freelance zooarchaeological work, and authoring archaeological reports.

Graeme WARREN Towards a social archaeology of the Mesolithic in eastern Scotland; landscape, contexts and experience. Ph D 2001. Graeme is now a Lecturer in Archaeology at University College Dublin, and has published volumes on the Mesolithic recently with Tempus.

Jane WEBSTER The identification of ritual in the later Iron Age, with specific reference to selected themes in protohistoric Gaul and Britain. Ph D 1991. Jane, who now teaches at Newcastle University, has published widely on this and related topics.