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Research Spotlight Films & Staff Spotlight Interviews

Meet some of the people who make up our vibrant academic leadership, research and teaching community.

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Amy Bogaard

Amy tackles big world problems like wealth inequality, ecological resilience & food security

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Dylan Gaffney

Dylan wants to know what allowed our species to become the only surviving hominin on our planet today

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Jane Kershaw

What can Islamic silver coins tell us about the Vikings?

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Damian Robinson

Damian tells the story of how finding one artefact changed his understanding of an ancient maritime society

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Spotlight interviews

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Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz

Ten quick-fire questions

Getting to know our Professor of Later European Prehistory, from the Bronze Age to the Roman conquest. 

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Dr Ine Jacobs

Digging at Aphrodisias

Interviewed for the main University website, Ine discusses her fieldwork and how her research is helping to unearth the secrets of the Byzantine world

Read her interview here
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Dr Jane Kershaw

Ten quick-fire questions

Jane uses sophisticated scientific methods to research the Vikings. Would she want to travel back in time to meet them and why were they so interested in silver objects?

Read her answers here
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Victoria Robson

Meet the HAF

Victoria is the Head of Administration and Finance for the School. Meet her here. 

Meet the HAF
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Dr Rachel Wood

Director, Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit

How does radiocarbon dating work and what has it got to do with pangolins?

Find out here
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Professor Christopher Bronk Ramsey

A physicist amongst archaeologists

A physicist, find out what attracted him to archaeology and how physics and maths contribute to our discipline. 

Find out here
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Professor Shadreck Chirikure

The future of the past

Interviewed for the main University website, Prof Chirikure believes archaeology can take us back to the future. 

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Dr Anke Hein

Diversity is beauty and strength

In the Spring of 2022, Anke was interviewed by her student - Muyang Shi - for this video published for the People's Daily Online

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Emeritus Professor Mark Pollard

Mark was interviewed for the main University website, on the eve of his retirement. He looks back on his career in archeaological science. 

Read his interview