Dr. Corrie Hyland successfully defends PhD dissertation!

Congratulations to Dr. Corrie Hyland, BAP PhD student at University of Oxford, for successfully defending her PhD dissertation on August 19^th, 2025!

Title: Extricating the importance of freshwater resource use within prehistoric diets: combining the power of bulk and compound specific stable isotope analysis with established freshwater reservoir effects on radiocarbon dates

Supervisors: Dr Amy Styring, Prof Rick Schulting and Prof Andrzej Weber

Congratulations to Dr. Hyland!

We wish you all the best in your future endeavors!

Read about Corrie’s BAP research here.

Photos: Corrie enjoying a tea after her viva wearing the Oxford sub fusc that that is required for thesis defence; a card which Amy Styring made for Corrie; Corrie’s set up for the thesis defence