Lauren is a postdoctoral research fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. Her research focuses on human movements, including narrowing down the timeline of settlement occupation and ritual patterns across small islands. Her previous work included developing chronometric transparency frameworks for small legacy radiocarbon databases to enable reliable Bayesian models for Torres Strait (Australia) archaeological sites. Lauren’s past research used single-grain Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) methods to date rockshelters containing Nejd Leptolithic stone artefacts to determine when humans transitioned from hunter-gatherer to pastoralist societies in Southern Arabia.
Lauren has a PhD in Australian archaeology and a Master of Teaching, specialising in Geography, Modern and Ancient History. She completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Geology and a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of Wollongong.
She commences a 12-month secondment (2023) to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in the Centre for Neutron Scattering, working in stable isotope analysis.