Ballot Archive

02 Feb 2017

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Sian Halcrow

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD University of Otago, New Zealand

Profession or occupation

Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology

Grounds for election

Dr Halcrow is a bioarchaeologist with a research focus on infant and child health and disease in the past. She leads several multidisciplinary projects investigating the effects that the development, adoption and intensification of agriculture has had on health in the past, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. Dr Halcrow has started a project researching adaptation and environmental change in Northern Chile using large superbly-preserved prehistoric human collections from the region, which include the earliest examples of artificial mummification in the world. She is one of the leaders in the field of bioarchaeology and palaeopathology in Australasia, and is a global leader in the bioarchaeolopgical study of children. She has been very involved with national & international research bodies, including the Society for the Study of Childhood in the past, the Paleopathology Association & the Australasian Society for Human Biology.

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