My career to this point has operated at the boundary of research and practice, with my current academic fellowship hosted at MOLA, thanks to our Independent Research Organisation status. My UKRI Future Leader Fellowship research is aimed at reframing the narrative around value provided from development-led archaeology, via refocussing archaeological practice to increase its public value and relevance to society, and ensuring cultural and social impacts of development-led archaeology become primary considerations of future projects.
Having spent almost 25 years directing and publishing major excavations in the urban core of Roman London, I am still active in fieldwork and have maintained a research interest on the archaeological profession itself. I obtained my PhD through professional practice and was Archaeologist in Residence at the MacDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, focusing my research on current challenges to archaeological practice, and the need for the sector to revolutionise its offering.
I have extensive experience of public speaking, teaching and assessing of various formal and informal academic and technical qualifications, as well as the mentoring of colleagues at various career stages.
See my publications via my ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7188-3611