Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Raffin Fort, Co. Meath, excavations. Christian symbols and iconography on Irish brooches (500-650 AD). Sword ceremonies in early medieval Ireland. Irish Christian art and iconography 5th to 8th centuries. Landscapes and ceremonies of later Iron Age and early medieval Irish kingship.
I am also interested in Heritage theory and policy
Graduate of University College Dublin (1984); Masters degree scholarship 1984-86; NUI Travelling Studentship 1987 - studied in Italy, France and the UK; director Discovery Programme Tara Survey 1992-96. He was co-director of the Columbanus: life and legacy Project (PRTLI4 and Andrew Mellon Foundation) and member of the International Scientific Committee of Making Europe: Columbanus and his legacy, and is now co-directing In the Footsteps of Columbanus: Insular Reliquaries in Italy, a legacy project that arose from the discovery of a new Insular reliquary at a church site associated with Bobbio in Brallo di Pregola.Conors researchinterests arein landscape and kingship studies, early art and iconography, and heritage studies. He has worked extensively on the royal landscape of Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland. He is on the editorial board of Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group.Conor is a vice-president of UNISCAPE(a network of over 50 European universities committed to landscape education and research, and delivery of the European Landscape Convention). He co-edited the proceedings of UNISCAPEs 2013 conference Landscape and Imagination: towards a new baseline for education in a changing world (Paris) and its 2016 conference Landscape Values: Place and Praxis (Galway). He is the co-ordinator of UNISCAPEs annual online seminar series Where the Disciplines Meet.Conor is a member of the Expert Advisory Board to the Erasmus+ CHARTER Project: European Cultural Heritage Skills Alliance (2021-24)He was awarded the British Academys John Coles Medal for Landscape Archaeology in 2011, and was chairman of the Heritage Council from 2008-2016.
Early kingship;royal complexes of Ireland; symbolism and iconographies of sacral kingship;Insular art AD 100-700; landscape archaeology
My teaching interests include late Iron Age Ireland, Royal sites and complexes, landscape archaeology and early medieval art and iconography,museumsandheritage.
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Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Newman, C. (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Newman, C. (Conference Organising Committee Member)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Newman, C. (Primary Supervisor)
Activity: Other › Postgraduates Supervised
Newman, C. (Primary Supervisor)
Activity: Other › Postgraduates Supervised
Newman, C. (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation (Unpublished) › Invited Talk
Newman, C. (Recipient), Oct 2011
Prize: Honorary award