Honorary Research Fellow

BA, PhD (Dunelm.) MIFA, FSA

Email: me87@le.ac.uk

Matt studied for a BA degree (1987) and a PhD (1992) in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Durham. He worked as Project Officer and Site Director for a number of commercial archaeology units – including Albion Archaeology, Cambrian Archaeological Projects and Birmingham University Archaeological Fieldwork Unit. He has carried out a series of urban surveys and directed excavations in Bedford, Rugby, Manchester, Wednesbury, Birmingham and elsewhere. He worked at the University of Leicester as Project and Research Officer for the AHRC-funded Wallingford Burh to Borough Research Project from Jan 2008 to Dec 2010. Since then he has had a College Research Fellowship at the University of Durham, which enabled the writing of a new book on the archaeology of rivers (published by Bloomsbury Academic in September 2011).

Matt is a member of the Institute for Archaeologists and the World Archaeological Congress, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 

Recent Publications (2011)

2011 Fluid pasts: archaeology of flow. London, Bloomsbury Academic. More details here

2011 (with N. Christie) ‘The archaeology of crossing places: the bridge and ford at Wallingford on the River Thames, England’ In Archäologie der Brücken: Vorgeschichte, Antike, Mittelalter, Neuzeit. Regensburg, Pustet Friedrich Kg, 232-9.

2011 'The weir and flowing earthworks of Bedford'  British Archaeology 121 (Nov/Dec issue).

2011 'Excavation as a ground for archaeological knowledge' in Archaeological Dialogues 18:1, 44-6.

2011 'Archaeology and current debate on the Anthropocene' in Norwegian Archaeological Review 44:1, 59-62.

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Forthcoming  

• A discussion article on archaeological inference in Norwegian Archaeological Review  

• A  chapter on scale in the archaeology of the contemporary and recent past in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Archaeology     

• A chapter on archaeology of scientific discovery in the proceedings of the 2009 conference of the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory meeting

Upcoming Conferences and Meetings 

• 25th February 2012 Yorkshire Geological Society Meeting on the Anthopocene, University of Sheffield. Paper on archaeological perspectives on the anthropocene.
• 2nd March 2012 St Neots Local History Society. Paper entitled 'Archaeology of Viking Tempsford and West Saxon Bedford - linked by the River Great Ouse'
• 25th-28th April 2012 Nordic TAG at University of Oulu, Finland. A paper in the session on 'What about the Things Themselves?'  
• 28th May 2012  Oxford University Archaeological Society. Provisional title: 'Archaeology of rivers'