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Archaeologist and Deputy Head of School Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. Munster fan, coffee enthusiast. New book with FCP: Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/patrick-gleeson

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Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025 Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions. You must: * be an early career researcher * hold a doctorate in a relevant subject or have equivalent professional experience

Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025 #ahrc #academicsky

12.09.2025 10:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters | Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries!

www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

11.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 52    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

A certain cultural heritage course? Noticed that too!

07.09.2025 09:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland 10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced

"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."

www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

05.09.2025 09:20 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Blimey! They are some very dastardly changes for this year.

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Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Research Ireland The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and manag...

Interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin ?

“Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

A salary of €47,273 in the first year of the award and €47,880 in the second year of the award

eligible direct research expenses of €5,000 per annum

02.09.2025 20:40 — 👍 13    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
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Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland: A pivotal work Patrick Gleeson’s beautifully laid out book is meticulously researched and utterly absorbing

Review of my book in the Irish Times: ‘meticulously researched and utterly absorbing’ is about as good as it gets. Downhill from here: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

30.08.2025 08:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Archaeological Achievement Awards

🏆 Nominations are open for the @ArchaeologyUK #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!

Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT

28.08.2025 09:45 — 👍 9    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks very much for this, it was very kind and very much appreciated. No money changed hands, mind, but was lovely to see!

27.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These are good choices, basically the entire fuel of my day-to-day

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Cheers, I don’t think an ebook yet. Just old fashioned heavy hard back with lots of pictures

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Come and join us in Oxford! We're advertising for a two-year full-time departmental lecturer in Medieval Irish Language and Literature. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

12.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1
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Aidan O’Sullivan I'm fundraising for LauraLynn - Irelands Childrens Hospice and would love if you could support my challenge.

I'm fundraising for LauraLynn - Irelands Childrens Hospice
fundraise.lauralynn.ie/s/859/858/s

I’m taking part in “Run 100K in September” challenge to raise funds for LauraLynn, Ireland’s only Children’s Hospice, for children with life-limiting conditions, be grateful for your support

11.08.2025 08:04 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 2
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A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory A concern with ethics and commitments to ethical conduct and standards has increasingly been raised within archaeology, recently also concerning aDNA data. We suggest that codes, whether for working w...

A Framework for Archaeological
Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

02.08.2025 17:44 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
Vacancies | National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

Very exciting opportunity, Assistant Keeper, in Irish Antiquities Division, National Museum of Ireland

www.museum.ie/en-ie/about/...

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My book Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland is finally out, and it’s a beaut. In bookshops tomorrow but you can order online here - only €45! First interdisciplinary study of early Irish kingship, focusing on landscape/spatial dimensions of rule: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l...

22.07.2025 14:24 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Research Fellow Archaeological Science (RICHeS Scientist) at Queen's University Belfast Apply now for the Research Fellow Archaeological Science (RICHeS Scientist) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Currently recruiting 5 yr archaeological science research post for @ahrcpress RICHeS project @arcpalqub. 5 yrs initially but potentially much longer term, working on material/elemental/chemical characterisation, including specialist geochemistry/radiocarbon. pls RT: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU880/r...

07.07.2025 13:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cash loss on research deepens to £6bn across UK universities - Research Professional News Cost recovery rate for research fell to 67 per cent in 2023-24

Cash loss on research deepens to £6bn across UK universities.

Cost recovery rate for research fell to 67 per cent in 2023-24.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

10.06.2025 20:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't forget the arts when it comes to R&D spending The UK's creative economy is worth more than our life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined

@hetanshah.bsky.social 'innovation policy needs to link more strongly with industrial strategy for a services based economy.'

www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...

04.06.2025 19:11 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Nerc ‘puts environment front and centre’ for growth and security - Research Professional News Research council leader on geopolitics of ice-free Arctic and “taking risks” on understanding geoengineering

Nerc ‘puts environment front and centre’ for growth and security

Research council leader Louise Heathwaite on geopolitics of ice-free Arctic and “taking risks” on understanding geoengineering

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

02.06.2025 05:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Still a few days left to apply for this post. Get in touch if you are interested!

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Big changes in difficult times

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Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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23.05.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lecturer (Archaeological Science) at Queen's University Belfast An academic position as a Lecturer (Archaeological Science) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Come join our team in ArcPal at QUB advertising for a lecturer in archaeological science with a specialism in biomolecular and/or isotope geochemistry. Closing date 2nd June: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND779/l...

20.05.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Permanent job in archaeological science with is at QUB with specialism in either biogeochemistry, biomolecular or geoarchaeology. Closing 2nd June, but exciting time to join us and have state of the art labs to work with and build from. Please retweet: hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

19.05.2025 08:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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