Teaching

I am currently research-only but continue to teach across the School both on MA and BA level. I am also the convener of The Politics of the Past: Heritage in a Changing World MA module.

Since starting at Birkbeck, I have co-taught on the HCA MA modules ‘Themes and Concepts in Archaeology’, ‘Exploring the Past’ and ‘Research Skills for Historians’. In autumn 2021, I will be co-coordinate and co-convene ‘Themes and Concepts in Archaeology’.

 

2021, MA module co-ordinator and convenor, ‘The Politics of the Past: Heritage in a Changing World’, Birkbeck, University of London, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. This is a new interdisciplinary optional module that I developed as part of the Department’s strategic expansion of heritage teaching at postgraduate taught level, open to students from both within and outside HCA.

 

2020, guest lecturer for MA module ‘Archaeologies of Modern Conflict’, UCL Institute of Archaeology

 

2019, MA module co-ordinator and convenor, ‘Archaeologies of Modern Conflict’, UCL Institute of Archaeology

 

2017, co-organiser of the first Joint Research Seminar of ‘CHEurope: Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe_Towards an integrated, interdisciplinary and transnational training model in cultural heritage research and management’ Doctoral Training Programme supported by the European Commission under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) – Innovative Training Networks (ITN) scheme, training 15 international PhD students.

 

2017, guest lecturer for MA module ‘Archaeologies of Modern Conflict’, UCL Institute of Archaeology

 

2016, guest Lecturer for Year 2, 3 and MA module ‘Material Culture’, University of Bristol, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

 

2015, guest Lecturer for Year 3 module ‘Anthropological Archaeology of the First and Second World Wars’, University of Bristol.

 

2013, undergraduate Tutor for Year 1 module ‘Comparative World Archaeology’, University of Bristol.

 

2011, successful completion of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TLHE), University of Bristol Academic Staff Development.

2021-2022 I will be the ESRC Archaeology pathway lead starting in autumn 2021

 

2021/2020, co-organiser of the HCA Lunchtime Research Seminars

 

2020, representative for archaeology on the Birkbeck Virtual Opening Evening

 

2019-present, member of the HCA Research Degree Committee

2021, I am currently co-supervising of a funded PhD on wartime graffiti in Nazi camps and ghettos (Jennifer Putnam) in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, and a PGR mentor for four first year PhD students

 

2021, Primary supervisor for an MA dissertation on museums and digital heritage for the MA Archaeological Practice at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck

 

2018, Primary supervisor for an MA dissertation on ‘Conflict heritage in Colombia’ for the MA Cultural Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology

 

2017, Primary supervisor for an MA dissertation on ‘The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Heritage of Silence’ for the MA Cultural Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology