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Over the years my research projects have all involved significant inter-disciplinary collaborations, where I worked with Irish
and international researchers in fields as diverse as geology, metallurgy, zoology, botany and palynology. This is seen in
my early collaboration with Jan Lanting and Anna Brindley (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) on the application of radiocarbon
dating to long-standing research problems in Irish prehistory. It is also illustrated by the scope of the Ross Island project,
a ten-year investigation into the origins of early Irish metallurgy. This involved researchers from many different institutions,
including Ms Sinead McCartan (Ulster Museum, Belfast), Dr Fraser Mitchell (Dept. of Botany, T.C.D.), Dr Robert Ixer (Dept.
of Geological Sciences, University of Birmingham), Professor Thilo Rehren (Institute of Archaeology, U.C.L.), Dr Peter Northover
(Dept. of Material Science, University of Oxford), Mr Roger Hannam, (Cork Institute of Technology), Mr Jan Lanting and Ms
Anna Brindley (Archaeologisch-Biologisch Instituut. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Dr Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker ( University
of Amsterdam), Dr Pauline van Rijn (BIAX Consult, Amsterdam), and Dr Judith Kinnaird and Mr Paul Nex (Dept. of Geology, University
of Witwatersrand). Current research collaborations include advising a project directed by Dr Suzanne Klemm ( Austrian Academy
of Sciences) dealing with Bronze Age mining and metallurgy in the eastern Alps.
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