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Dr

Amy Gray Jones

(she/her)

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0002-1740-4621
  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Amy Gray-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Programme Leader for the MA Archaeology of Death and Memory at the University of Chester, UK. She is an internationally active research scholar, publishing and presenting at conferences, and securing academic and public funding for research fieldwork and impact projects. She teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate Archaeology programmes and supervises postgraduate research students.

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER APPOINTMENTS

  • Programme Leader (MA Archaeology of Death and Memory)
    University of Chester, History & Archaeology, Chester, United KingdomAug 2019
  • Deputy Head of Department
    University of Chester, History & Archaeology, Chester, United KingdomAug 2015 - Jul 2019
  • Acting Head of Department (joint)
    University of Chester, History & Archaeology, Chester, United KingdomAug 2014 - Jul 2015
  • Programme Leader (Undergraduate Archaeology)
    University of Chester, History & Archaeology, Chester, United KingdomAug 2016 - Jul 2017
  • P:rogramme Leader (Undergraduate Archaeology)
    University of Chester, History & Archaeology, Chester, United Kingdom2012 - 2013

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Human Osteologist
    Museum of London Archaeology, London, United Kingdom2003 - 2007

DEGREES

  • PhD Archaeology, Archaeology
    University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom2007 - 2011
  • MSc, Osteology, Palaeopathology, and Funerary Archaeology
    University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom1999 - 2001
  • BSc Archaeology, Archaeology
    University College London, London, United Kingdom1996 - 1999

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Fellow HEA
    Advance HE, York, United Kingdom2016

RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE INSTITUTE

  • Culture and Society Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute
  • Sustainability and Environment Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute
  • Health and Wellbeing Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute

SCHOOL

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences