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My research primarily addresses the sociocultural impact of technological systems, craft activities, and production practices. I adopt interdisciplinary approaches to such themes, combining methods traditionally suited to material analysis and the archaeological sciences with insights from modern craft practitioners, oral history documentation, and data visualisation techniques. Alongside reappraisals of archival and legacy data, I have previously studied cases related to ceramic manufacturing, metallurgy, alcohol production, and distillation, contributing to dialogues on resource exploitation, settlement patterns, and community formation. My historical interests cover aspects of Bronze-Iron Age, Classical, and Hellenistic archaeology in Europe, Western Asia, and South-Central Asia, with a particular focus on social and community interaction across the ancient Greek world.

An increasingly large portion of my research engages with critical approaches to heritage and the influence of archaeology upon contemporary society. My work has interrogated the appropriation and commodification of the past, extending to discussions on wider processes such as cultural identity, placemaking, and social stratification. Here, I am interested in exploring what long-term perspectives on change can contribute to addressing modern societal, environmental, and regional challenges. Allied to my industry experience in ºù«Ӱҵ’s independent sector, much of this recent work has involved close collaboration with external partners through Knowledge Exchange partnerships and public engagement initiatives, including local food and drink industries, artists, musicians, museums, and archives. Accordingly, my research interests touch on several broad themes:

• Technology and social change
• Contextualising ceramics, metallurgy, and alcohol production
• Food and drink production communities
• Late Bronze Age - Hellenistic archaeology in Europe and Western Asia
• Influence of archaeology and heritage on contemporary society