Currently I work as the osteoarchaeologist for the COMMIOS project at the University of York. As part of this project I analyse human remains from the British Iron Age. I am hugely curious about every skeleton that I encounter, and I love teasing as much information...

The article below was featured in The Conversation on the 13th of January 2022. Please see the article here: Asylum seekers: why UK needs to change how it assesses the age of new arrivals. In this article I write my response to the announcement by the Home Office, in...

Update: 27.03.2020 On the 11th of March, the WHO (World Health Organization) declared the novel strain of coronavirus a pandemic.There is still a huge amount of misinformation and rumors circulating the outbreak of the virus, particularly on social media, so I decided...

The coronavirus has been making the headlines for weeks. The situation with the coronavirus continues to evolve  - and it is causing fear and anger – mainly from information mistrust and over information being withhold, allegations of scaremongering and quite possible...

You would think that Leprosy was a disease of the past, predominantly during the Medieval Period, right? Well think again. When I travelled in Nepal I saw first hand people with classic telltale signs of leprosy. Blinded by the disease, they were begging for money on...