Dr. Shirley Curtis-Summers

Specialist in human osteology, palaeopathology and stable isotope analysis. Research interests include:

• Late Iron Age to Late Medieval archaeology
• Pictish and medieval lifeways in Scotland
• Medieval lifeways in Britain and Ireland
• Childhood health
• Social responses to infectious disease in medieval Britain
• Mortuary archaeology
• Reconstructing diet, health, disease and trauma in Britain and Europe
• Religious and socio-economic influences on past lives

Currently, Dr Shirley Curtis-Summers is supervisor to the following Postgraduate Researcher:

· Isobel Grimley, e-mail: i.j.grimley@bradford.ac.uk. Thesis title: Assessing Frailty in Medieval Children, Adolescents and Young Adults from England and the Isle of Man.

• Human and animal dietary reconstructions using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis
• Identification and interpretations of disease and trauma through human skeletal analysis
• Funerary archaeology and the interpretation of status from the burial environment
• Archaeology of medieval communities: the relationships between ecclesiastics and the laity
• The impact of medieval life (diet, labour, violence) on the body
• Reconstructing aspect of health, disease, impairment (or disability) and social perceptions in medieval Britain.

Currently, Dr Shirley Curtis-Summers is supervisor to the following Postgraduate Researcher:

· Isobel Grimley, e-mail: i.j.grimley@bradford.ac.uk. Thesis title: Assessing Frailty in Medieval Children, Adolescents and Young Adults from England and the Isle of Man.

• Human osteology and palaeopathology
• Human musculoskeletal and virtual anatomy
• Stable isotopes and diet
• Reconstructing medieval lifeways
• Health, disease and trauma in past populations