University of Nottingham
Thesis title:
A study of medieval place-names in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland, which describe wild animals or their interaction with humans, combined with zooarchaeological and literary evidence. The impact of this study on conservation, rewilding, and reintroduction will be considered, with a number of case-studies.
'Hypothesis Testing Methods for the Analysis of Medieval Personal Names in the English Midlands', in Onomastica Uralica, forthcoming.
Place-names and Personal Names
Landscape and ecology
Old English language and literature
Medieval history and archaeology
Statistical methods in Corpus Linguistics
Ordinary Council Member of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
Member of the English Place-Name Society