Team | Irish Cave Bones

Our Research Team

Multidisciplinary. Collaborative. Innovative.

We collaborate with various researchers and partners with our research.

Research Scientist (COALESCE),

Co-PI (Royal Irish Academy)

Principal Investigator reindeer/human project; Member of CSG

Zooarchaeologist & Quaternary faunal specialist, Palaeoecology, GIS, Photography

Dr Ruth Carden

University College Dublin

Ireland

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Principal Investigator (COALESCE),

Co-PI (Royal Irish Academy)

Assoc. Prof. Helen Lewis

University College Dublin

Ireland

Project Research Partner (COALESCE)

Principal Investigator (Royal Irish Academy); Member of CSG

Dr Richard Jennings

Liverpool John Moores University

Project Partner

Cork Speleological Group; Clare Crawlers

& The Breifne Caving Club; (Speleological Union of Ireland)

Stan Drapala, Jerry Ahearne, Brían Mac Coitir, Denise McCullagh, Monika Jur, Daniel Drozd, Terry Casserly, Michael Burford

Project Partner - radiocarbon dating

Dr Maarten Blaauw

14CHRONO

Queen's University Belfast

Northern Ireland

Project Partner - stable isotopes

Dr Brian Hayden

University of Brunswick

Canada

Project Partner - aDNA canids

Dr Pontus Skoglund

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Project Partner - cave karst geology

Dr Mike Simms

Project Partner - mapping, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, forensic science, GMM/morphometrics, Karst cave archaeology

Assoc. Prof. Patrick Randolph-Quinney

Collaborator - ZooMS

Dr Mike Buckley

Collaborator - aDNA

Prof. Dan Bradley

Project Partner

Co-PI reindeer/human project

Dr Allan McDevitt

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Artist-in-residence

John Flynn - Castle Studio

PhD student (2024-2028)

Brooke Driscoll

Interior Cave Photographer

Ken Williams - Shadows and Stone

Our cave archaeologists

Our highly experienced core cave archaeologists, past and present, form an integral part of our excavation team, working in confined underground spaces, in the retrieval of artefacts and cave bones, and recording within each cave site.

Phil Kenny (2015+)

Cave site supervisor, CSG

Clare Ryan (2022-2023)

Senior cave archaeologist

Louise Callan (2022)

Senior cave archaeologist

Keziah Warburton (2022+)

Cave archaeologist

Emma Hawkes (2023+)

Cave archaeologist, CSG

Brooke Driscoll (UNB) (2024+)

Cave archaeologist

SUI Cork Speleological Group

Members of the Cork Speleological Group look after our safety in the caves where we work, as well as providing essential support in terms of cave mapping and in our cave explorations. They assist us with our work inside caves and we are beyond grateful for all their help and their important partnership and collaboration with us at every level. Many members of the CSG and other caving clubs that are on site with us, are also members of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation (ICRO). So we are in very safe hands!