Dr Paul Murtagh

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

pjm32@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Paul Murtagh has worked in Scottish archaeology for over 20 years, with a background in commercial archaeology, academia, and in the third sector.

Paul has a passion for engaging audiences from all backgrounds in archaeology and has wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of the heritage sector and in particular, around issues to do with community engagement and outreach, integrated heritage approaches to investigating landscapes as well as the development and implementation of outcome-focused methodologies.

Paul’s Ph.D. focused on the Iron Age of West Central Scotland, while his other research interests include sports heritage and contemporary archaeology, and he spends his summers volunteering on the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project.

Selected publications

• Open access

  The Roman Baths: A place of recovery

  Murtgh, P., 2019, Historic Landscapes and Mental Well-being. Darvill, T., Barrass, K., Drysdale, L., V, H. & Y, S. (eds.). Archeopress, p. 204-214

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Assembling places and persons: a tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, western Scotland

  Harris, O. J. T., Cobb, H., Batey, C. E., Montgomery, J., Beaumont, J., Gray, H., Murtgh, P. & Richardson, P., 20 Jan 2017, In: Antiquity. 91, 355, p. 191-206

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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