Today in our British Science Week 2018 series, we sit down and talk to Simon Crutchley, Remote Sensing Development Manager at Historic England. Remote sensing is the science of obtaining information about an area from a distance, from aircraft or…
Our second blog post during the Festival of Archaeology comes from Fay Worley, Zooarchaeologist at Historic England. In this ‘five minutes with…’ posts she describes to us how she became interested in zooarchaeology and shares examples of her work in…
What’s your scientific/heritage background? I knew I was going to be an archaeologist aged 12. The only question was, what kind of archaeologist? During a degree in archaeology, I caught the statistics bug. I went back to the digging circuit,…
What’s your background in science/heritage? I trained as a conservator in the UK and after graduating was awarded an object conservation fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, and a second fellowship at…
What’s your scientific/heritage background? I have a BSc in archaeological science at Bradford University which was followed by an MSc in Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials at UCL. I then did a PhD studying Anglo-Saxon and Viking iron knives…
What’s your background in heritage science? I have been doing scientific and computational imaging for research and conservation documentation of the Smithsonian collections at the Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) for five years. I have a background in fine art photography…
What’s your background in heritage science? Having completed a degree in Applied Biology I was offered a 4 month contract, funded by English Heritage, in the Archaeology Department at Sheffield University working in the dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) laboratory. I spent…
What’s your background in heritage science? I obtained a PhD in chemistry from Georgetown University, but focused my research on heritage science by having joint supervisors – professor of chemistry Richard Weiss at the university, and heritage scientist Barbara Berrie…
What’s your background in heritage science? My scientific background comes from my undergraduate degree. I have a BA(Hons) degree in Physics with Astrophysics; by the time I was in 4th year I knew I wanted to push my career into…
What’s your background in heritage science? I studied chemistry as an undergraduate and especially enjoyed the analytical aspect of the field. I’ve always loved working with textiles, so combining the two was a perfect fit for me. My project is…
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