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Professor Kate Britton is a Personal Chair in Archaeological Science at the University of Aberdeen's Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences. She specializes in stable isotope analysis to reconstruct past diets, mobility, and environmental interactions. Her research focuses on human-animal-environmental dynamics, with expertise in multi-isotope systems (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, δ34S, 87Sr/86Sr) and individual isotopic histories.
Education: BSc (Hons) from Durham University (Dunelm), MSc from University of Reading, PhD from Durham University (Dunelm) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA). Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSAScot).
Research interests include Late Pleistocene Europe, pre-contact Western Alaska, and Medieval Scotland. Recent work explores vitamin D health in archaeological populations, palaeoecology of herbivores, and integrating isotopic data with machine learning models.
Notable grants include the ERC-funded PalaEoScot project and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology (2019). Supervised over 15 PhD students, including studies on Medieval urban animal husbandry, prehistoric dietary adaptations, and Late Glacial human recolonization.
Teaching includes courses on bioarchaeology, palaeolithic Europe, and northern worlds. Active in public engagement and honorary roles, including Honorary Curatorial Fellow at University Museums.
