[1][2] Healy studied international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, graduating with an upper second class honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1965.
[2] On a part-time basis she undertook research for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the Institute of Archaeology, which she completed in 1990 with her thesis "The neolithic in Norfolk".
[2][3] In 1990, Healy was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).
[4] In 2020, she was awarded the Grahame Clark Medal by the British Academy "for her distinguished achievements involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology, with a particular focus on the British Neolithic".
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