UKAS 2026 Early Career Research Poster Presentation Prize winner – Alice Rose

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Congratulations to Alice Rose, winner of the Early Career Research Poster Presentation Prize at the United Kingdom Archaeological Sciences Conference (UKAS) 2026, which was held in Bristol this year (March 30-April 2). Alice’s project "From cesspits to castles: isotopic insights into rat dietary ecology and human-rat interactions in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe" outlined the ongoing carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis being carried out on archaeological rat bones as part of the project "RATTUS: Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies” at the University of York, where Alice is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

Alice is a bioarchaeologist specializing in the isotopic analysis of archaeological skeletal remains. As part of this, she is undertaking stable isotope analysis of brown and black rats sourced from archaeological sites from across Europe to help understand the commensal niches of rats and their population dynamics, as well as investigating their role as a novel proxy for key debates in European historical archaeology. As part of the award, Alice receives a £150 prize and complimentary SAS membership. Well done!