Miss Miriam Andrews BSc

Postgraduate research student

Miriam Andrews is a Postgraduate research student within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton

Miriam Andrews graduated from the University of Southampton in 2016 with a degree in Archaeology (BSc).

Miriam worked under Dr Tomas Polcar as an undergraduate summer intern in 2015, researching the current application of materials science techniques in the study of wear on archaeological artefacts. Subsequently, a PhD position was opened to address some of the caesurae that were identified. Miriam was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship in 2016 to facilitate this research.

The specific aim of Miriam’s PhD research is to establish a multi-method approach – using principles and approaches borrowed from engineering tribology – to model wear on metal archaeological objects, for the purpose of clarifying their intensity of use in both quantitative and descriptive terms.

The project is inherently inter-disciplinary in nature, and is managed by joint supervision from the Faculty for Engineering and Environment, and the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences.