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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Ranked 9th in the Guardian University Guide 2013

 

Research interests

Research Themes

Deirdre O’Sullivan’s main area of research has been the archaeology of medieval monasticism in the British Isles, spanning the period c. AD 500-1600. However, she has a developed interest in urban archaeology and has also worked in the field of gender and representation, and with the role of archaeology as cultural heritage.

Her main current project is a two-part study of medieval friaries in the British Isles, the first volume of which should appear in 2009. She organised a conference on Medieval Monasteries in the Midlands in April 2009.

Topics available for supervision

  • Medieval archaeology, especially monasticism
  • Medieval material culture
  • Medieval and post-medieval urban archaeology
  • Critical approaches to archaeological heritage and to the interpretation and presentation of the past

Deirdre has supervised and co-supervised PhDs on the early medieval landscape of Lindisfarne, the comparative palaeopathology of English medieval populations, historic building reconstruction since 1877, aspects of health and population studies in northern Europe, and the origins of the parish in Norfolk. Current students are working on medieval pottery in the East Midlands, and on archaeological resource conservation in Canada.