I am a PhD student in the School of Culture, History & Language. My research interests lie broadly in the role of ancient materials and technologies in past societies with a particular focus on the application of archaeometric techniques to ceramics and glasses. My research favours interdisciplinary approaches and seeks to combine macroscopic observations with micro-analytical techniques, ethnological analogy and ceramic ecology theory. My doctoral study involves pottery from the Metal Age (ca. 200 BC – 500 CE) mortuary site at Catanauan, Phillippines. I completed my MSc in Archaeological Materials at University College London with a thesis that investigated the technological features of Predynastic pottery from Hemamieh, Middle Egypt. I have since worked with pottery from a range of different chronological periods and geographic locations including Roman England, Neolithic Southeast Asia and Lapita and immediate Post-Lapita Pacific Islands. I have training in thin-section petrography, geochemical analysis and Micro-CT imaging.