Research groups

The School of Applied Sciences is home to three Research Groups:

• Archaeology Group
• Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences Group
• Forensic and Biological Sciences Group

Archaeology Group

Head of Academic Group: Dr Kate Welham

• Landscape Archaeology »
• Environmental Archaeology
• Forensic Archaeology
• Science-based Archaeology
• Marine and Coastal Archaeology.

We are concerned with all aspects of the Historic Environment as evidence of past human activity and its associated consequences that people can find, see, hear, understand, feel, debate, and contest in the present world. Archaeology provides a systematic study of human cultures through material remains asking who did what? When? Where? How? And Why?

Physical and biological Anthropology both informs archaeological studies and assists in crime-scene investigations, the preparation of evidence for use by courts of law, and the application of technical and scientific knowledge to legal problems. Heritage, both cultural and natural, tangible and intangible, focuses on the things inherited from the past that we choose to investigate, document, manage, interpret, use, and represent in various ways.

Further information can be found on the Archaeology Group webpages.

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Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences Group

Head of Academic Group: Professor Rudy Gozlan

• Monitoring environmental change
• Impacts of environmental change
• Conservation Ecology
• Environmental policy and Practice

We undertake internationally recognised research on environmental change and its impacts on biodiversity, and aim to be a leading provider of education and training in environmental science. We are a multi-disciplinary research team of geographers and ecologists. Specialist interests include remote sensing, the ecology of birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals and plants, in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments.

Our research is designed to support policy development and implementation, and we have strong links with conservation practitioners and policy makers locally, regionally and internationally.

Further information can be found on the Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences Group webpages.

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Forensic and Biological Sciences Group

Head of Academic Group: Professor David Osselton

We specialise in the following areas: anthropology, biomolecules, law, scene investigation, toxicology, public health, accident investigation and mass disasters.

Our research is multidisciplinary and policy relevant with a range of forensic contacts from mass graves to forensic toxicology.

Further information can be found on the Forensic and Biological Sciences Group webpages.

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