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Dr Jill Campbell

<p>Dr Jill Campbell</p>

Dr Jill Campbell

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Email: jcampbell66@qub.ac.uk

Address

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

Current Research:

Past Cultural Change (PCC)

Early Career Researcher on the Heritage Lottery Fund/AHRC project ‘All Our Stories’ Connected Communities Follow-On Programme

The project involves intensive boundary working between community members, archaeologists, schools and heritage professionals to co-produce a significant new heritage resource for the respective communities and enhance the social learning capacity and adaptive capacity of the research network, and the participant groups in particular. Through the Follow-up Funding, we will develop this research network, to provide opportunities for other interested groups to engage with the research, and to make a substantial contribution towards enhancing participation, learning and sustainability in project communities. The strength of the research network lies in the breadth of knowledge represented by the research team and the substantial existing experience that team members already have in engaging communities with the historic environment. Through the project, our network also aims to develop a best-practice model for community learning and engagement that will demonstrate the potential for the historic environment to deliver real benefits in terms of social learning, sustainability and prosperity, enabling communities to address key contemporary societal and economic challenges. My role principally involves supporting groups in the west of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

PhD Research

Architectural design and exterior display in gentry houses in 14th- and 15th-century England

My thesis examined the architectural design and exterior display in gentry houses in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. The research investigated how and why the exterior of these buildings were designed, and outlined the methods medieval builders and architects used in order to achieve this. It considered the argument that the design of the exterior of these houses was driven by the rise of the nouveaux riches who used it to display their status. Late medieval England was an era of increasing social mobility amongst the upper levels of society. As this group grew, it became increasingly important for the newly enriched familes to display their position through their home, and for the existing members to keep up with the latest developments and styles. The work compared architectural devices used at other medieval high-status sites including the geometry of cathedrals and the setting of castles, and showed that it was possible to recognise many of these features in buildings further down the social scale. The implications of the results in this thesis were wide reaching. No longer can it be claimed that the houses of the late medieval gentry were not designed.

Publications:

  • Campbell, J. A House is not just a Home: Means of Display in English Medieval Gentry Buildings. In Kristiansen, M. V. & Giles, K. (eds), Houses – Shaping Dwellings, Identities and Homes. European Housing Culture from Viking Age to the Renaissance. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press (due December 2013)
  • Campbell, J. Exterior Design Principles in Late medieval Manor Houses, located in, or near,English Rural Settlements. Ruralia IX. Turnhout: Brepols (due October 2013)

Forthcoming

  • Campbell, J. Gentry Houses in Late Medieval England: Design, Display and Development.
  • Campbell, J. The Decline of the Moat in Late Medieval England. ,

Web Publications

  • Campbell, J., Elvestad, E., Gardiner, M. and Mehler, N. 2010. A Report on Preliminary Work on Papa Stour, Shetland. OITIS Field Report No. 1
  • Campbell, J. 2011. Principles of External Design in Late Medieval Gentry English Houses: the Example of Hextalls in Bletchingley, Surrey. In Forster, A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Archaeology Post Grad Colloquium 2010 http://medievalarchaeology.org

Teaching Experience

2008-12: Seminar tutor for three years in the undergraduate module Historic Europe, QUB

2010-11: Volunteer at Queen’s University Young Archaeologists Club (YAC)

2007: Supervisor of the undergraduate Surveying and Prospecting Course, Cardiff University

Conference Presentations

Sept 2011: Exterior design principles in late-medieval manor houses, located in, or near, English rural settlements Ruralia IX: Götzis, Austria

May 2011: Expressions of status in gentry houses of fifteenth-century England Space and Settlement Conference, Trinity College Dublin

Dec 2010: A house is not just a home: means of display in English medieval gentry buildings Houses - Shaping Dwellings, Identities and Homes. Aarhus University, Denmark

June 2010: Were medieval buildings and landscapes designed? Sheffield University Manor Lodge Excavation

Feb 2010: Principles of external design in late medieval gentry English houses: the example of Hextalls in Bletchingley, Surrey SMA Post Grad Colloquium: Birmingham University

Nov 09: Exterior design principles in late-medieval gentry houses Medieval Cultures Seminar Series, Queen’s University Belfast

Additional Information:

  • Part of the organizing committee of the Buildings in Society International: History and Culture AD 500–1914 Conference 19 – 21 June 2014
  • Compiler of the bibliography for the Medieval Settlement Research Group
  • Post Grad student rep for the Past Cultural Change Cluster, QUB (2010-11)
  • Student Rep for the Society for Medieval Archaeology (SMA) (2009-10)
  • Student Rep for the MA Archaeology students, Cardiff University (2006-07)