Welcome phoebe!

We are very excited to welcome Phoebe Meyrick into our research team who is joining us as a PhD student on a UQ funded scholarship. Phoebe is joining us from the University of Otago where she just completed her masters thesis titled "Investigating Medical Intervention, Healthcare and Social Wellbeing in Colonial Otago Through Paleopathological Analysis of the W.D. Trotter Skeletal Pathology Collection". Prior to her masters, she completed a BA with Honours in Anthropology also at the University of Otago, working on a thesis titled "Paleopathological Analysis of a Commingled Assemblage from Eriama (ACV), Papua New Guinea". She also holds a BSc in Anthropological Science from the University of Auckland.

Phoebe's PhD will investigate bone health changes with social factors in medieval and other historical populations using microscopic methods. 

In December 2025, Phoebe was also elected the Australian studnet representative for the Australasian Society for Human Biology and will serve on the committee for 3 years.

Congratulations to Phoebe both for securing the UQ PhD scholarship and her success in joining the ASHB executive team!