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Dr Gill Plunkett

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Dr Gill Plunkett

Dr Gill Plunkett

School of Natural and Built Environment

I am interested in examining evidence for the causes and timing of past environmental change, and the relationship between past environmental change and human activity. I use palynology to reconstruct past vegetation and land-use history, and tephrochronology as a means of dating and examining the impact of past volcanism.

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  • G.Plunkett@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3184

Research Interests

Open to PhD students in the fields of tephrochronology, palaeoecology, palynology, Irish prehistory or wetland archaeology.

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Research students

PhD title: Drumclay crannóg: a tree-ring dated narrative for Irish settlement
Years of Study: 2017–ongoing
Country: Northern Ireland 

PhD title: Niche Construction and Plant Use in the Mesolithic
Years of Study: 2016–ongoing
Country: Ireland/Northern Ireland


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title: Late Holocene vegetation and cultural land-use history in the uplands of N Portugal
Years of Study: 2008–2016 (PT)
Country: Ireland
Current Position: Research Assistant (Maynooth University) and Palaeoenvironmental Consultant at Achill Archaeology Field School

PhD Title: A Spatial Analysis of the Prehistoric Burials of Northern Ireland
Years of Study: 2011–2015
Country: Ireland
Current Position: Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Malta

PhD title:  Settlement Structure in Middle–Late Bronze Age Ireland
Years of Study: 2008–2012
Country: Ireland
Current position: Department for Communities (Historic Environment Division)

PhD title: A palynological investigation of land-use patterns in first millennium AD Ireland
Years of Study: 2009–2012
Country: Ireland
Current position: Part-time teaching assistant, QUB


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