Publications
- Emotional Labor and Heart Work: Addressing Mental Illness in Ethnography – co-author with Emma Louise Backe, The New Ethnographer: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating Contemporary Challenges in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Forthcoming 2020)
- Identification of Avian Remains from Covesea Cave 2 on the Moray Firth Coast, Northeastern Scotland – Cave & Karst Science 46(3) (2019), p. 115-117
- Fish Bones, Microscopes, and Isotopes: A Pilot Study in Applying Analytical Methods to Iron Age Faunal Remains – Assemblage 17 (2019), p. 1-10
Online Publications
- You Will Never Be Indiana Jones– Lady Science (2020)
- To Be the Curator, and Not the Curated – SisterSTEM (2019)
- How to Breathe During Your Studies: Mental Health and Academia – Her STEM Story (2018)
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Social Media…for Science! – The Female Scientist (2017)
- Me Versus Me – Stories in Science (2017)
Interviews
- Animal Bones and Archaeology – ArchaeoDuck’s Meet the Archaeologist (2018)
- Wait, You Really Study Dead Animals? – Conseris (2018)
- Meet Alex Fitzpatrick, a zooarchaeologist and science communicator who uses social media to increase public knowledge of zooarchaeology – The Female Scientist (2017)
Podcast Episodes
- ArchaeoAnimals Podcast – Host (Ongoing)
- Zooarchaeology with Alex Fitzpatrick – The Palmer Files Podcast (2020)
- #DiggingWhileDepressed, Mental Health, and Archaeology– Women in Archaeology Podcast (2019)
- How Do We Study Zooarchaeology of Bronze Age Scotland? – The Arch and Anth Podcast (2019)
- Interview with Alex Fitzpatrick – Ask an Archaeologist Podcast (2018)
- Our #STEMSupport Star – Her STEM Story Podcast (2018)
- Zooarchaeology – Women in Archaeology Podcast (2018)
- Elevator Science Part 1 – Superwomen in Science Podcast (2018)
Science Writing
- How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends – PBS Eons (2020)
- Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland – Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (2019)
- How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) – PBS Eons (2019)
- When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia – PBS Eons (2019)
Conference Papers
- Beyond Domestication and Subsistence: A Call for a Decolonised Zooarchaeology – Decolonising Science Narratives (2019)
- #DiggingWhileDepressed: A Call for Mental Health Awareness in Archaeology – Public Archaeology Twitter Conference (2019)
- Should We Respect Rover’s Remains? A Discussion on Ethics, or the Lack Thereof, in Zooarchaeology – Animal Remains Conference (2019)
- The WordPress Workshop: Blogging as a Method for Theory Development – PressEd Conference (2019)
- No Margins, No Word Counts, No Masters! Experimenting with ‘Zines for Archaeological Outreach – Public Archaeology Twitter Conference (2019)
- Black Flags and Black Trowels: Embracing Anarchy in Interpretation and Practice – Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2018)
- Caves of Wonder: A Preliminary Analysis of the Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland – British Cave Research Association Symposium (2018)
- The World Wide Reference Collection: Zooarchaeological Twitter and the Case for an International Zooarchaeology Database – Computer Applications in Archaeology Twitter Conference (2018)
- Things Worth Telling: Considering the Narrative in Environmental Archaeology – co-author with Valerie San Filippo, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2017)
- Fishing, Diet, and Environment in the Iron Age of the Northern Isles – Iron Age Research Society Student Symposium (2017)
Thesis Papers
- Fishing, Diet, and Environment in the Iron Age of the Northern Isles – MSc Dissertation (2016)
Most papers and presentation slides can be accessed via my ResearchGate or Academia profiles. I can also provide PDF copies if requested.
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