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gothic quarter it was incredible especially sagrada familia i honestly haven t been in a building that was quite so spectacular the design and architecture were stunning and the colours created by the stained glass windows were magnificent i m not a religious or particularly spiritual person but this was an awe inspiring place a must see if you are ever in barcelona it was a lovely few days getting away and getting some head space and of course the food was incredible but it definitely reminded me that it s important to take time for yourself and switch off from daily work life so what else oh yeah a brief to bournemouth university to look at some bronze age juveniles there were only a few individuals in their collection but enough to complete my sample for this time period this makes me very happy as it s something tangible that i can tick off as done it definitely helps towards the feeling of moving forward and making progress now to start looking at the data a good week of phd work the occurred ending with a weekend away on hockey tour those who are not familiar with this is a weekend of playing social hockey i e not that serious and meeting different players and clubs it s a great way to meet other people and to get to know the players on your team better it was the first tour i ve been on with guildford hockey club and was a good laugh i even saw a friend from uni which was a lovely surprise i bump into him randomly now and then so it was great having a catch up the world of hockey can be a small place moving to this week i ve tried some new things the first was attending a cdp collaborative doctoral partnership my phd funding scheme workshop on object handling this included going to the v a victoria albert museum in london to discuss how people including other cdp students and v a staff learn from objects within a collection part of the day included short presentations by cdp students about objects or collections involved in their research originally i had not intended to go to the workshop but at the training days the other week i met the student organisers who asked me to present i agreed and instead of discussing some of the skeletal collections or a particular object i took a different route to discuss how attitudes towards excavation and reconstruction of human skulls has changed over time in summary during my phd data collection i came across particular collections excavated during the late 1800s early 1900s that only consisted of skulls almost all of which had been reconstructed these reconstructions were made using troublesome materials such as clay metal and heavy glues causing damage to the bones and preventing future research this of course does not happen today guidelines produced by the british museum and department of culture media and sport now recommend excavation and conservation practices and state that conservation reconstruction should only take place when necessary and by a trained professionals it is interesting to consider how objects including human remains can be used to inform us just of past individuals or populations but also about the collectors and attitudes of the time this was reflected and considered in talks by other students as well as other common themes spanning different types of collections and objects it was a very interesting session and a great chance to meet new people outside the world or bio archaeaology it was also great to gain more insight into attitudes of museums and how they look at objects hopefully there will be more of these sessions in the future finally this week i had my first experience of teaching children yesterday i helped a friend who does some outreach within southampton university this included teaching classes 10 year olds a little about archaeology and burials basically the idea to get the kids to put together a small model of a skeleton then bury it with objects that may tell us about that person it was quite fun and certainly a new experience for me i m glad that i get the chance to do some teaching there s a few more coming up next month so we ll see how i get on then so over the last 3 weeks i ve been quite busy it s all good though and i like the variety it stops me getting stuck or bored share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in musuem phd what i ve been up to tagged barcelona data collection hockey holiday museum outreach phd teaching training oops i did it again posted on 08 06 2017 by sammy leave a comment i ve left it a while since writing a blog post sorry the phd took over my life for a while there a bit more than usual so what have i been doing well there has been some more data collecting more writing more hockey and the upgrade for those of you who don t know about the phd process some universities conduct upgrades during the phd this is an examination type meeting where a couple of lecturers most likely within the same department as you question the phd student on a piece of written work and assess whether they a have a project that can stand and process onto a phd and 2 that the student knows what they are doing to be honest mine feels like a bit of a blur and it is quite an odd experience however i came through it and received some great advice that i will be using to refine restructure and focus my project i m hoping that i ll continue my phd with a slightly new perspective and with the knowledge that it is going well although i will have to remind my self that constantly it s the nature of the beast please note that for each university this process is different and has different requirements when i talk about my upgrade it only relates to my experience i highly recommend attending any training events relating to the upgrade and or talk to your supervisors and fellow students who have gone through it i was told that this is to help prepare you for the final viva so it is going to be tough but worth it in the end so what else have i been doing well more data collection for a start i ve visited a couple more museums including cheltenham museum and a small collection held by the university of bristol spelaeologial society which also hosts the brilliant cave gazetteers website that i mention on my british osteologial collections page but i guess the one i would like to brag about is the natural history museum yup i was lucky enough to carry out a weeks data collection at the nhm london the nhm is one of my favourite museums i went there a number of times and now that i live near london i can go as often as i like but it was such a great opportunity to go and use some of their collection in my research the lovely curatorial assistant was on hand to help with any questions and queries and it was great getting to chat to her i hope to see her again at babao 2017 where we both hope to present a poster it was a privilege to work there and can even say that i met the curator of the human remains collections who was also our first key note speaker at our sssb conference see previous post in addition as part of the agreement to collect data i carried out some basic osteological curation work on the specimens i examined by completing an inventory sheet of the remains it may sound like a small thing but it will allow for easier and more efficient inventorying and assessment for future researches and curators and hey every little helps what else is there oh yeah i ve just come off from two excellent training days organised by the collaborative doctoral partnership cdp who fund my phd these two days talked about life after the phd getting and applying for funding grants and things to consider when applying for jobs even though i am only in my 2nd year to was a great thing to attend it means i can start thinking about what i want to do now and start preparing my cv skills and research so i can look for work funding efficiently and productively when the time comes it was also great to meet some of the other cdp students it s always nice to hear about their experiences and learn about their research through this i was asked if i would like to do a small presentation about object handling at another cdp event coming up in a few weeks check out those networking skills lol they haven t got anyone talking about human remains so i think i will take them up on their offer plus it will give me another chance to practice my presentation skills i ll report back in a few weeks to let you know how it went anyway i hope this gives you a little idea of what i ve been up to next week i m away in barcelona it s the boyfriend s birthday treat and will come back refreshed and relaxed ready to hit the ground running with the phd until then adios share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in musuem phd research what i ve been up to tagged blogger data data collection human remains human skeletal remains museum museum collections museums natural history natural history museum networking phd phd life research skeletal remains skeleton skeletons training a busy few weeks posted on 29 03 2017 by sammy 1 comment well hasn t march flown by it feels like ages ago when i last updated my blog but it isn t really but in the last 2 weeks so much has happen i have been to two more institutions to see their collections and the conference i was helping to organize took place it s been a great but very very busy couple of weeks so a couple of weeks ago i headed up to the university of bradford to look at an iron age collection they have in their biological anthropology research centre i was there for the whole week as it was a large collection but it was very productive whilst i was there i was told that there was also a bronze age collection and as i was able to get through the iron age sample quite quickly i had time to look at the bronze age stuff as well so i got two collections for the price of one as well as the great collections at bradford i have to talk about the amazing facilities they have there i gather that a few years ago the archaeology department moved buildings and were provided with brand new lab spaces and i must say they are wonderful they are spacious well organized and very modern it made collecting my data much easier i hope that the bradford students realize how lucky they are some of the facilities at university of bradford image from twicopy org en bradtoothfairy oh and a bonus thing that happened whilst i was in bradford i met prof keith manchester for those who don t know much about bioarchaeology osteology keith manchester is quite big in paleopathology my key textbook i used during my undergraduate degree to learn about the subject was co authored by him he was so lovely and was kind enough to show me around some of the other lab and teaching spaces in the department it was so nice meeting him and not at all scary so my week was in bradford was over as i said it was a great week and i got a lot done but my travels were not over the following week i was in sheffield visiting the museum s collection before getting onto that however just a quick side note i ve probably mentioned before that i play hockey field not ice and this year my team has been going for promotion now this weekend between my two trips we had seen very important game of we won or drew then we were guaranteed first play in the league a promotion so there was quite a bit of pressure and i was very nervous before the game but we played really well and won we were so happy of course we had confirmed our place at the top it was amazing and i so pleased and proud of the team we ve had a couple of ups and downs but we got there in the end and a special thanks must go out to our coach chris if you re interested you can find the match report for the game here after a good week in bradford and an amazing hockey game i was up in sheffield visiting the museum s stores i had another successful week and saw many bronze age remains and a few neolithic one thing that was annoying was the condition of some of the remains some of the skulls had been reconstructed using glue and plaster making them heavy and a few had their jaws glued together so i couldn t examine their teeth now i must stress that this is due to a result of old collectors back in the late 1800s and early 1900s and not the museum collectors in the past did not seem to have that much interest in studying the remains but just collected them for this reason many of these skeletal collections only possess the skulls which is annoying for modern day researchers i m sure that there s a project in there examining the history of collecting and the reason behind these practices but that s for someone else regardless of these specimens there were plenty of others that were of use to my project and i thoroughly enjoyed my time in sheffield and the members of staff were brilliant before moving on i must give a special thanks to leigh ann the collection assistant who was really helpful and great to talk to leigh ann knew so much about the various collections held by the museum and i learnt a lot it s also a bonus that she recommended some great podcasts to listen to hopefully we ll bump into one another again maybe at the society of museum archaeologists sma later this year leigh ann and the other staff members were great i highly recommend visiting sheffield museum and that you use their collections if you are a researcher after all of the traveling and data collection the weekend of march 24th offered something else that was very exciting the sssb conference i have mentioned this in previous posts but sssb is an inter disciplinary conference exploring death anatomy attitudes to the body mortuary practices and more with sssb standing for skeletons stories and social bodies i am committee member for this and i can t believe how quickly it came round but here it was what can i say i think that it was a great success we had a wide range of speakers discussing everything from mortuary practices seen in archaeology to new approaches to viewing the remains of pompeii to how should be approach medical students about the donated bodies you can see a full list of abstracts of the papers and posters presented here to understand the complete variety of work we also two great keynotes by dr heather bonney and prof caroline wilkinson discussing the history of collecting and the 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