As we come towards the end of the year I was reflecting on all the missed fieldwork opportunities in 2020 (and keeping my fingers crossed...

Great turn out for my Cafe Scientifique talk last night. Thanks to all that attended and to the organisers. A total of 76 attendees and...

Because of the Coronavirus pandemic I have not managed to conduct any of my fieldwork abroad during spring/summer 2020. However, since I...

Catching up on blog posts during lockdown! These photos show a Women In Science event which I participated in at the British Library. The...

Since my spring fieldwork in Jordan I have spent a lot of time in the laboratory processing sediment samples for extracting microscopic...

My last bit of fieldwork for this spring was out in the eastern Badia. I joined the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project (EBAP-...

Last week I managed to take a few days to travel from Jordan to Turkey to visit two important Neolithic sites, Çatalhöyük and Boncuklu,...

Zad 2 and Dhra Field Trip with Phillip Edwards After meeting Phillip Edwards at the ICHAJ (International Conference on the History and...

Other activities in the field… During my fieldwork in Jordan I have also been taking some time to re-visit some of the sites in downtown...

Fieldwork Preparations April 2019 Fieldwork preparations are now underway for the Eastern Badia Archaeological project which starts on...

January 2019 My current British Academy Fellowship commenced on 14th January 2019. I’ve moved into my office at Bournemouth University...

My fellowship application was partially based on samples that I had already collected in Jordan during my CBRL fellowships (Council for...

Shortly after the start of my fellowship I was busy presenting at conferences and invited seminars. At the end of January I presented at...

In February I presented at the British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) conference which was held this year at the...

Beginning of 2019 Fieldwork, March 2019 In March I was leaving the UK behind to travel to Jordan to conduct more fieldwork and to collect...