Alice Jaspars BA, MA
Postgraduate research student
Alice Jaspars is a Postgraduate Research Student at the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
Jaspars read Archaeology and Anthropology at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she was undergraduate representative, and president of the Oxford University Archaeology Society. She has since completed a Masters in Museums and Heritage at the Universiteit Leiden where she co-curated an exhibition on the role of women at the University. Before taking up her place at Southampton, Jaspars worked as a political and cultural journalist.
Jaspars was the primary author and coordinator of the successful £128,000 NLHF grant for the Book of Deer Project. The grant will fund the temporary return of the Book of Deer, home to the earliest example of written Gaelic, to the North East of Scotland for the first time in a millennium. A 12 week excavation has been planned in conjunction with this, to find the monastery where the addenda to the book were written.
Jaspars has worked with the Book of Deer Project for almost seven years, and has acted as a member of the board, volunteer, and archaeologist, including as part of the 2018 BBC Alba Documentary Air Tòir Manachainn Dhèir. She will act as the Assistant Director for the project’s 2022 excavation.
Qualifications
BA (Oxon) Archaeology and Anthropology, MA Museums and Heritage.