Dr Aida Fernández Prieto this year completed a major two-year research project funded by a European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, sponsored by project P.I. Dr April Pudsey.

The project Poverty, Vulnerability and Family in Ancient Greece aimed to reconstruct personal experiences of poverty and socio-economic vulnerability at the family level, particularly for young women and girls, in the 5th-3rd centuries CE classical Athens.

The research and its outputs provide the first systematic, contextualised and holistic cultural nature of these interrelated phenomena in classical antiquity. It also examined their impact on the everyday experiences of women and girls of that time.

During her time with us, Dr Prieto cohosteda two-day international research conference with Dr April Pudsey, ‘Poverty and Vulnerability in Classical Antiquity: Gendered and Life-Cycle Approaches’, which welcomed 25 internationally and world-leading Classics scholars, and a range of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. Dr Prieto and Dr Pudsey are currently working on publication of their Featured MCYS Projects co-edited book on the central themes and new research put forward in this conference, which will make a significant and impactful contribution to research in ancient povertystudies and ancient family and youth studies.

During her time with us, Dr Prieto published a number of papers and spoke to various research seminars and public audiences about her work. She also co-taught a number of ancient history course units alongside Dr Pudsey.