Sarah Kerr

Sarah Kerr

Qualifications

MSc Professional Archaeology Pass with Distinction
BSc (Hons) Geography and Archaeology-Palaeoecology

Postgraduate

Email: skerr23@qub.ac.uk

Address

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

Telephone

+44 (0)28 9097 5287

Current Research: Past Cultural Change

Uniformity & diversity in the architecture of lodging ranges in fifteenth-century England & Ireland

This research is concerned with lodging ranges, built between 1300 and 1500 as part of English castles and large houses. They only occur during this time period due to the specific social and political influences in England. The purpose of the study is to develop a clear understanding of lodging ranges, and the type of people who occupied them. This will involve a study of current remains, an examination of the architecture and creating plans of the buildings showing them intact. This will allow a comparison of lodging ranges, providing information on this type of building, such as their development and typology, and the household in which they were set. An examination of contemporary documents will also take place. This will hopefully provide information on the social context in which lodging ranges were built and assist in the identification of the inhabitants.

Supervisors

Principal Supervisor: Mark Gardiner
Secondary Supervisor: Colm Donnelly

Additional Information:

Awarded Bursaries

Vernacular Architecture Group Winter Conference Bursary January 2013

Field Experience

Prior to starting my PhD research, I gained experience in commercial and research excavations while working for the Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork (CAF). I worked on sites which were temporally diverse, from Neolithic to Early Christian, Medieval, Plantation era and Post Medieval, across Northern Ireland and in Massachusetts.
I have surveyed a variety of buildings such as vernacular farmsteads, Irish round towers and Slane College in County Meath.