Dr Amy Gray Jones
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr Amy Gray-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Programme Leader for the MA Archaeology of Death and Memory at the University of Chester, UK. She is an internationally active research scholar, publishing and presenting at conferences, and securing academic and public funding for research fieldwork and impact projects. She teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate Archaeology programmes and supervises postgraduate research students.
Teaching and Supervision
Dr Gray-Jones is an experienced lecturer in archaeology dedicated to exploring the relationship between theory and practice. Since 2013 she has designed and delivered modules for the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on mortuary archaeology, the archaeology of human remains, bioarchaeology, and the archaeology of the body as well as British and European prehistory. With a background in professional archaeology, she also leads on embedding careers and employability initiatives and work-based/experiential learning within the archaeology programmes. She has examined and supervised postgraduate taught and research students on projects ranging from bioarchaeology in the media to the handling of the dead body in Roman Britain.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Dr Gray-Jones is a funerary archaeologist and human osteologist specialising in funerary taphonomy and the analysis of disarticulated and fragmented human remains, particularly from the Mesolithic of north-west Europe. She also co-directs research into early Holocene wetland landscapes and the hunter-gatherer communities of Britain.