Gowland held a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge.
[2][1] She is an Associate Editor at Bioarchaeology International,[6] and the Treasurer of The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.
[7] Her research interests include health and the life course in the Roman World,[8][9] palaeopathology, social perceptions of the physically impaired and the inter-relationship between the human skeleton and social identity.
Gowland has co-edited The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, with Chris Knüsel (2006) and The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology.
[1] She has co-authored Human Identity and Identification with Tim Thompson (2013).