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Date: 30 September 2010
Bournemouth University's School of Applied Sciences has appointed a new Deputy Dean.
Bournemouth University’s (BU) School of Applied Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Holger Schutkowski as Professor and Deputy Dean. He takes up the post in January when students and staff will undoubtedly benefit from his teaching and research in Biological Anthropology.
Dr Schutkowski said: “I am absolutely delighted about the appointment. The School comes across as a vibrant and forward-looking place with an impressive variety of academic activities, and I feel privileged to soon be part of it.”
For the last ten years Dr Schutkowski has worked at the University of Bradford, most recently as Head of the Division of Archaeological, Geographical and Environmental studies. His primary area of research is the interpretation of biological information from archaeological populations within the cultural, social and political context of their time. One way of doing this is to reconstruct diet and subsistence from the isotopic composition of bone and, for example, relate it to social status, age and gender. Most recent work includes early medieval populations from the Alamannia (SW Germany) and material from the Levantine Bronze Age.
Dr Schutkowski was Chair of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology for four years, is associate editor for ‘Environmental Archaeology’ and the ‘Bulletins et Mémoires de la Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris’ and has over 100 publications to his name, including two recent monographs. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and Moderating Panel, and he frequently reviews grant applications for other funding bodies, such as the Royal Society, British Academy, National Science Foundation, as well as manuscripts for leading journals in the field.
“My impression is that I will be joining the School of Applied Sciences at a time when crucial changes are being implemented to strengthen its position,” said Dr Schutkowski. “I am excited to be able to offer my contributions in this process.”
He continued: “I am thrilled to join the anthropology group to complement and enhance it with my background in biological and cultural anthropology, in combination with archaeological sciences. The wide academic remit of the School will take me back to my early days in biology, and more specifically ecology, but also allow me to explore new areas within archaeology, which is exciting. I also hope that the managerial experience I was able to gain over the last years will be beneficial to the School in its ambitious plans to sharpen its profile, improve its performance and raise its academic standing. I really look forward to that.”
Professor Matthew Bennett, Dean of the School of Applied Sciences, added: “Holger is an experienced and knowledgeable academic leader with much to offer all areas of endeavour within the School. I look forward to working with him in shaping the future strategy and direction of the School.”
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