Dr Sarah Elizabeth Paris

Sarah is a bioarchaeologist and Associate Lecturer in Forensic Science at Anglia Ruskin University and supervises in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in human skeletal remains and burial behaviour, her research uses a combination of osteobiography and statistics to understand past cultures. Sarah enjoys teaching and has taught across a range of subjects and departments, including forensic anthropology, forensic chemistry, biogeography, field skills and methods. At the Institute of Continuing Education Sarah teaches on the origins of burial behaviour and its transition through the palaeolothic.

Prior to her PhD at Cambridge University Sarah worked around the UK in commercial archaeology as an excavator and osteologist. Before that she completed a masters in skeletal and dental bioarchaeology and an undergraduate in Ancient History and Archaeology. Sarah has worked at a number of internationally renowned sites and projects including Pocklington Iron Age cemetery, Ardnamurchan Viking Boat Burial and Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction.