I work as a research associate on Dr Sadie Watson’s Future Leader’s Fellowship project ‘Measuring, maximising and transforming public benefit from UK Government infrastructure investment in archaeology’.
My role on the project is to conduct ethnographic research on the relationship between commercial archaeology and construction. In particular, I am exploring how the sectors interact with each other and translate their methodologies to be easily understood by each other. More recently, I have also started working on how to apply innovative models of project design, that prioritise inclusivity and sustainability, to archaeological projects.
My skills include expertise in ethnographic research, having conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the UK, Spain and Ecuador, as well as theoretical archaeology. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).
I am particularly interested in personhood and cognition during late prehistory, which was the topic of my PhD at the University of Edinburgh. I have published several papers exploring topics such as posthumanism, agency, or identity in the past. I am also an experienced field archaeologist, and have been involved in excavations in the UK, Spain, Cyprus, and Croatia.
See my publications via my ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0108-9732