Dr Rachel Pope BA, MA, PhD (Dunelm), FSA, FSA Scot.

I offer teaching on Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain at Masters level: working through core debates in the field, whilst providing a developed understanding of trends in later British prehistory. Since joining Liverpool, I've supervised over fifty UG dissertations and Masters theses.

Standout MA/MSc students:
Tabitha Craig: Society & identity in Beaker period SW Scotland (80): aDNA & archaeology [publication in prep.]
Jess Hornby: Developing method on Iron Age identity (84) [publication in prep.]
Sally Longworth: Bronze Age settlement in Mersey Basin (80) [Best in Year, went on to UoL PhD]
Catherine Jones: Crannogs (78) [awarded Departmental funding for Bradford MSc, now BM/Manchester Swords PhD]
Ashley Brogan: Prehistoric Cairns in north-west England (77) [joined Salford Archaeology; now PhD at York]
Jake Morley-Stone: Late Iron Age pellet moulds (75) [awarded University PhD funding]
Morgan Murphy: Hillforts and settlement temporality (76) [joined Cotswold Archaeological Trust]
Diana Nikolova: Field Techniques in Egyptology (80) [awarded Departmental PhD funding, now in post at Garstang Museum]
Lorrae Campbell: Late Bronze Age hillforts (75) [Best in Year, went on to UoL PhD]

PhD/MRes students:
Tabitha Craig: Scottish Chalcolithic. Funding pending.
Jess Hornby: Iron Age chronology and identity. Funding pending.
Sally Longworth (2019-2026): PhD on New method on Bronze Age agricultural settlement landscapes in northern Britain
Eleanor de Spretter Yates (2016-2023, AHRC & John Lennon Scholar): PhD on Bronze Age razors in Prehistoric Britain (submitted)
Jake Morley-Stone (2018-2023, Joseph Rotblat scholar): PhD on Late Iron Age pellet moulds: metallugical and contextual analysis (submitted)
Dr Lorrae Campbell (2013-2020): PhD on Late Bronze Age hillfort origins in western Britain Published here
Emily Prtak (Best in Year; Best Poster award at IARSS 2019): MRes on Molly Cotton and British hillfort studies in the interwar period
Dr Alan Williams (2011-2018): PhD on Geochemical and isotopic characterization of the Great Orme BA copper mine Published here
Dr Eddie Rule (2011-2018): PhD on Iron Age material culture and meaning in central western Britain

Post-doc Research Assistants:
2021-2025: Dr Lorrae Campbell (Park in the Past; publishing Eddisbury & Penycloddiau monographs)
2014-2020: Dr Ceren Kabucku (environmental & C-14 programmes: Penycloddiau, Eddisbury, Kidlandlee)
2011-2020: Richard Mason (Post-ex manager: Penycloddiau, Eddisbury, W.J. Varley Archive, Kidlandlee)
2010-2011: Dr Lisa Snape-Kennedy (Kidlandlee β-stanols, North Wyke Labs)
2009-2010: Dr Alexis McBride (Roundhouses)

My contributions to Year 1 teaching reveal how Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe contrast with the development of civilisations in the Near East and Mediterranean world. My specialist teaching focuses on Neolithic-Bronze Age Britain; and the western European Iron Age (800 BC-AD 70); teaching regional understandings of British Prehistory in their wider European context.

Courses:
Introductory lectures on Bronze Age Europe and Iron Age Europe (Year 1)
The Age of Stonehenge: Rethinking British & Irish Prehistory (Year 2)
Iron Age Europe: Beyond the Celts (Year 3)
Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain (MA/MSc)

My greatest contributions to the undergraduate experience have been an active commitment to research-led fieldwork training, to early research skills training, and to critical thinking through practice - although I no longer contribute to teaching in these areas at present at Liverpool.