Dr Laura Castells Navarro
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Profile
Biography
Laura received her BSc in Life Sciences and Human Biology from the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) in 2010 and completed her MRes in Infectious diseases (University of Edinburgh) in 2012 and her MSc in Human Osteology and Palaeopathology (University of Bradford) in 2013. She remained at the University of Bradford for her PhD where she focussed on the study of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) to develop its diagnostic criteria and improve our understanding of its relationship to diet and lifestyle. In this project, she combined human osteology and isotope analysis to analyse over 2500 individuals in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the post-medieval periods.
Laura became a the osteoarchaeology post-doctoral research associate on the COMMIOS Project in 2022. The project uses socio-cultural and scientific approaches (osteology, stable isotopes and aDNA) to understand Iron Age population dynamics, connectivity and mobility across Britain and the Near Continent.
Career
Before arriving to York, Laura held the positions of Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter (2021 – 2022) – leading the Human Osteology course of the MSc Bioarchaeology as well as the module of Funerary Osteoarchaeology; and supervising, both, undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations – and Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of Bradford (2020 – 2021).
She was also the PDRA for the NERC-funded Revealing Bradford project (2021) and the Communications Facilitator and Research Associate for the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Emerging Research Cultures’ (2020 – 2021).
