Gerald Bennett

Gerald Bennett

  • gbennett2 at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • PGR
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Biography

I am an MPhil research student at Bournemouth University carrying out a study into the alignments of rows of Bronze Age round barrows in Dorset and the New Forest. My supervisors are Dr Fabio Silva and Professor Tim Darvill. The working title of the study is ‘Are linear arrangements of Early Bronze Age round barrows oriented towards predictable extreme solar events on the horizon?’

Research

I am assessing the extent to which rows of round barrows ‘point’ towards the position on the horizon where the Winter Solstice sunset occurred during the Early Bronze Age. The stimulus for this was my unexpectedly recognising such a pattern in a barrow cemetery in Eastern Dorset. The investigation of this by myself and John Gale was published in 2017 . This current research is a systematic study of this issue, or, more generally, of the possibility that lines of round barrows are aligned on other predictable solar or lunar events.

When round barrows were first constructed in Southern England during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages the earliest type of organisation of them that can be discerned was of lines of barrows. Other evidence suggests that Bronze Age people endowed the predictable extreme movements of the sun and moon with cosmological importance, which would make it likely that lines of barrows were built to ‘point’ towards such celestial events. The results of this study will clarify the extent to which that occurred.

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Journal Articles

  • Bennett, G.A., Gale, J., 2017. Lines of Enquiry: Linear Organisation of the High Lea Farm Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 138, 127-136.
  • Field, M., Mogg, K., Mann, B., Bennett, G.A., Bradley, B.P., 2013. Attentional biases in abstinent alcoholics and their association with craving. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27 (1), 71-80.
  • Bennett, G.A., Moore, J., Vaughan, T., Rouse, L., Gibbins, J.A., Thomas, P., James, K., Gower, P., 2007. Strengthening Motivational Interviewing skills following initial training: A randomised trial of workplace-based reflective practice. Addictive Behaviors, 32 (12), 2963-2975.
  • Bennett, G.A., Roberts, H.A., Vaughan, T.E., Gibbins, J.A., Rouse, L., 2007. Evaluating a method of assessing competence in Motivational Interviewing: A study using simulated patients in the United Kingdom. Addictive Behaviors, 32 (1), 69-79.
  • Bennett, G.A., Withers, J., Thomas, P.W., Higgins, D.S., Bailey, J., Parry, L., Davies, E., 2005. A randomised trial of early warning signs relapse prevention training in the treatment of alcohol dependence. Addictive Behaviors, 30 (6), 1111-1124.
  • Bennett, G.A., Davies, E., Thomas, P., 2003. Is oral fluid analysis as accurate as urinalysis in detecting drug use in a treatment setting? Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 72 (3), 265-269.
  • Bennett, G.A., Edwards, S., Bailey, J., 2002. Helping methadone patients who drink excessively to drink less: Short-term outcomes of a pilot motivational intervention. Journal of Substance Use, 7 (4).
  • Bennett, G.A., Withers, J., Thomas, P.W., Higgins, D.S., Bailey, J., Parry, L., Davies, E., 2001. A randomised trial of early warning signs relapse prevention training in the treatment of alcohol dependence. Addictive Behaviors, 26 (6).
  • Virgo, N., Bennett, G., Higgins, D., Bennett, L., Thomas, P., 2001. The prevalence and characteristics of co-occurring serious mental illness (SMI) and substance abuse or dependence in the patients of Adult Mental Health and Addictions Services in eastern Dorset. Journal of Mental Health, 10 (2).
  • Bennett, G.A., Velleman, R.D., Barter, G., Bradbury, C., 2000. Gender differences in sharing injecting equipment by drug users in England. AIDS Care Psychological and Socio Medical Aspects of AIDS HIV, 12 (1), 77-87.
  • Bennett, G.A., Velleman, R.D., Barter, G., Bradbury, C., 2000. Low autonomy in injecting is a risk factor for sharing injecting equipment. Addiction Research and Theory, 8 (1), 81-93.
  • Dench, S., Bennett, G., 2000. The impact of brief motivational intervention at the start of an outpatient day programme for alcohol dependence. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 28 (2).
  • Bennett, G.A., Higgins, D.S., 1999. Accidental overdose among injecting drug users in dorset, UK. Addiction, 94 (8), 1179-1189.
  • VELLEMAN, R., BENNETT, G., MILLER, T., ORFORD, J., RIGBY, K., TOD, A., 1993. The families of problem drug users: a study of 50 close relatives. Addiction, 88 (9), 1281-1289.
  • Orford, J., Rigby, K., Miller, T., Tod, A., Bennett, G., Velleman, R., 1992. Ways of coping with excessive drug use in the family: A provisional typology based on the accounts of 50 close relatives. Journal of Community Applied Social Psychology, 2 (3), 163-183.
  • Francis, L.J., Bennett, G.A., 1992. Personality and religion among female drug misusers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 30 (1), 27-31.
  • Goddard, S., Bennett, G., Rigby, K., 1991. Psychological change during residence in a rehabilitation centre for female drug misusers. Part II. Children of drug misusers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 27 (2), 159-165.
  • Bennett, G., Kate, R., 1991. Psychological change during residence in a rehabilitation centre for female drug misusers. Part I. Drug misusers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 27 (2), 149-157.

Theses

  • Bennett, G.A.. Are linear arrangements of Early Bronze Age round barrows oriented towards predictable extreme solar events on the horizon? Bournemouth University, Faculty of Science and Technology.
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