Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz

Honorary Senior Lecturer

School of Social Science
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Overview

I am a Polish-Australian biological anthropologist and I specialise in bone histology which I apply to understand the biology and function of humans and other mammals. ​I work with modern, archaeological, and palaeontological samples. I am based in Brisbane, Australia and currently conduct research predominantly affiliated with the University of Queensland (Honorary Senior Lecturer since 2021). I am also a Correspondent Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (The Netherlands), and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK). ​I have 63 peer-reviewed publications and have so far secured >$580k in research grants as a PI, including a 2019–2022 ARC DECRA (DE190100068). As a CI/AI, I have featured on ~$1.7 million worth of research grants, including a 2019–2021 Marsden Fund Project Grant (18-UOO-028) and a 2023–2025 ARC DP (DP230100440).

Between September and November 2022, I was a Martin & Temminck Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands​. ​Until September 2022, I spent almost 7 years at the Australian National University in Canberra working as an ARC DECRA Fellow (2019–2022), Senior Lecturer (promoted in 2019), and Lecturer. Between 2015 and 2016 I was a Research Assistant in medicine at Imperial College in London. Until 2014, I spent about 8 years at the University of Kent in Canterbury completing a BSc (2010), PhD (2014), and PGCHE (2014), and working in various teaching roles, including tutoring, lab demonstration, sessional lecturing, and lecturing. I was previously Treasurer of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, Editor (2022) and Associate Editor (2023) of The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland (PRSQ), and Editorial Board Member (2022-2024) of Scientific Reports. I am currently Editorial Board Member of Anthropological Review and Review Editor (2023) of Human Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology (Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology).

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy of Biological Anthropology, University of Kent
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, University of Kent
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), University of Kent

Publications

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  • Basilia, Pauline, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Zaim, Jahdi, Rizal, Yan, Puspangingrum, Mika R., Hascaryo, Agus Tri, Price, Gilbert J. and Louys, Julien (2024). Investigating super osteons in fossil Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) bone from Bangka Island, southeastern Sumatra. Quaternary palaeontology and archaeology of Sumatra. (pp. 183-198) edited by Julien Louys, Paul C.H. Albers and Alexandra A.E. van der Geer. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/ta56.2024.08

  • DeMars, Lily J.D., Torres-Tamayo, Nicole, Hirst, Cara Stella and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2023). Bone biology and microscopic changes in response to behaviour. Behaviour in our bones: how human behaviour influences skeletal morphology. (pp. 7-38) edited by Cara Stella Hirst, Rebecca J. Gilmour, Kimberly A. Plomp and Francisca Alves Cardoso. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821383-4.00009-7

  • Walker, Meg M., Street, Emma M., Pitfield, Rosie, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L. and Mahoney, Patrick (2019). Ancient human bone microstructure case studies from medieval England. Bone health: a reflection of the social mosaic. (pp. 35-52) edited by Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen and Jose A. Riancho. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_3

  • Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). Medieval English Social Inequality and Bone Health: What Lessons are There to be Learnt for the Living?. Bone Health. (pp. 3-15) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_1

  • Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Stewart, Tahlia J., Deter, Chris A., Fahy, Geraldine E. and Mahoney, Patrick (2019). Skeletal health in medieval societies: insights from ancient bone collagen stable isotopes and dental histology. Bone health: a reflection of the social mosaic. (pp. 17-34) edited by Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen and Jose A. Riancho. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_2

  • Wyatt, Bronwyn and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). Skeletal markers of health and disease in the Northern Moluccas. The Spice Islands in Prehistory: Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. (pp. 201-209) edited by Bellwood, Peter. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian National University. doi: 10.22459/TA50.2019

  • Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L., Riancho, Jose A. and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2019). The Social Context of Bone Health: Conclusions and Future Directions. Bone Health. (pp. 177-181) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7256-8_10

  • Kinaston, Rebecca, Willis, Anna, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Tromp, Monica and Oxenham, Marc F. (2019). The dentition. Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. (pp. 749-797) London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-809738-0.00021-1

  • Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. and Mahoney, Patrick (2017). Human bone and dental histology in an archaeological context. Human remains: another dimension: the application of imaging to the study of human remains. (pp. 29-43) edited by David Errickson and Tim Thompson. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-804602-9.00004-7

  • Mahoney, Patrick and Miszkiewicz, Justyna (2015). Formation Times in Thermally Altered Enamel. The Analysis of Burned Human Remains: Second Edition. (pp. 355-363) London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800451-7.00020-6

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