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Dr. Karen Burnell is an Associate Professor at Solent University (email: karen.burnell@solent.ac.uk) and a Visiting Professor at the University of West London. She holds a PhD from the University of Southampton (2008) and specializes in psychosocial wellbeing of veterans, memory reconciliation, and archaeology-based interventions. Her research focuses on traumatic war experiences, social support, dementia care, and reminiscence therapies.
Key projects include the UCL MARCH-funded 'Archaeology and Veteran Wellbeing' initiative and the UKRI-backed 'AMPHORA' guidelines for heritage projects as mental health interventions. She leads collaborative efforts like 'Breaking Ground Heritage' and co-edited the 2022 book on archaeology and wellbeing.
Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to mental health and education. She serves on editorial boards (e.g., Aging and Mental Health Journal) and has delivered invited talks on narrative inquiry and qualitative methods since 2009.
Recent articles emphasize veterans' mental health through archaeology (e.g., 2025's 'Excavating the Past'), while her 2020 study evaluated archaeological fieldwork for veterans. Projects like 'Communicare' (2025-2026) aim to refine evaluation protocols for aging veterans' services.
Dr. Burnell is affiliated with multiple research groups at Solent, including the Social Sciences and Nursing Research Group and the Wellbeing and Applied Research in Psychology (WARP) team.
