Laura McAtackney
Dr Laura McAtackney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark and a Docent in Contemporary Historical Archaeology at the University of Oulu in Finland. Her research uses contemporary archaeology and critical heritage approaches to explore social justice issues, including long-term studies on political imprisonment in Ireland (Long Kesh / Maze prison and Kilmainham Gaol) and post-conflict Northern Ireland (especially materialized segregation), gendered perspectives on the past and the experiences and memory of the colonial Caribbean. She is currently the PI for an Independent Research Fund Denmark Project Enduring Materialities of Colonialism: temporality, spatiality and memory on St Croix, USVI (EMoC) (2019-2024), a Co-I on ARCHAEOBALT (2018-2022), an EU-Interreg project on archaeological tourism and is part of the OPEN HEART CITY collective working with Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.