Angela Gurr

Angela Gurr

Adelaide Dental School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.


My main research focus applies advances in bioarcheological techniques to examine the dentitions and skeletal remains of a group of 19th-century migrant settlers to South Australia. A multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach that includes the investigation of historical records associated with emigrant ships, and the economic/ social issues in the new colony. This Complexity approach allows a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of their oral and systemic health challenges, as well as their life histories and an insight into the health challenges that they faced.

I value the use of interdisciplinary methods and collaborations to provide a broader methodological application which can yield fresh insight into the life histories of previously unknown individuals and enrich our understanding of the early decades of the South Australian colony.

I am particularly interested in dental developmental defects that can represent the occurrence and survival of one or more health insults during infancy to early adulthood.

Areas of interest: Paleo imaging, Dental Anthropology, Dental Development, Paleopathology, Bioarchaeology and Social History.

My main research focus applies advances in bioarcheological techniques to examine the dentitions and skeletal remains of a group of 19th-century migrant settlers to South Australia. A multidisciplinary, multi-methodological approach that includes the investigation of historical records associated with emigrant ships, and the economic/ social issues in the new colony. This Complexity approach allows a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of their oral and systemic health challenges, as well as their life histories and an insight into the health challenges that they faced. 

I value the use of interdisciplinary methods and collaborations to provide a broader methodological application which can yield fresh insight into the life histories of previously unknown individuals and enrich our understanding of the early decades of the South Australian colony.

I am particularly interested in dental developmental defects that can represent the occurrence and survival of one or more health insults during infancy to early adulthood. 

Areas of interest: Paleoimaging, Bioarchaeology, Dental Anthropology, Paleopathology, and Social History.

2024- Award - History Council of South Australia ' Highly Recommended' Prize.


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