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Dr. Richard Jones is an Associate Professor of Landscape History at the University of Leicester, affiliated with the School of History Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on medieval rural landscapes, environmental history, and interdisciplinary approaches blending history, archaeology, and geography. He examines human-environment interactions, particularly agricultural practices, waste management, and flood risk mitigation across medieval England, Wales, and France. Jones emphasizes the relevance of historical environmental knowledge to contemporary ecological challenges. His work extends into early modern and modern periods, enabling cross-temporal analyses. He has contributed to studies on place-names as repositories of traditional ecological knowledge and has published on topics ranging from medieval sanitation systems to floodplain settlement dynamics.
Research interests include: medieval agriculture, environmental risk, historical geography, toponomastics, and interdisciplinary methodologies. His publications explore themes like manure management, floodplain archaeology, and elemental/humoral theories in historical contexts. Jones has also engaged with material science applications in archaeology, such as pigment analysis and ceramic dating techniques.
His research outputs reflect a commitment to bridging historical and modern environmental concerns, with contributions to flood hazard assessment, medieval flood history reconstruction, and the socio-ecological dimensions of waste disposal. Jones has supervised projects on rural settlements, landscape archaeology, and interdisciplinary methodological frameworks. He collaborates across disciplines, integrating historical records with archaeological and geoscientific data to reconstruct past environmental conditions and societal responses.
