Part of the History Research Centre Online Seminar Programme 2019–20

Date: Wednesday 15th July 2020

Time: 1pm - 2pm

Location: Online, a link will be sent to those who register attendance

Tickets: For those wishing to join the online seminar programme, contact Prof. Jon Stobart, j.stobart@mmu.ac.uk, for more information

Dr Seren Griffiths Biography

Seren is a heritage specialist and archaeologist. She researches public archaeology and heritage practice using interdisciplinary methods, she has period specialisms in European prehistory, with methodological specialisms in archaeological science. She is a 2020 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

She is PI on the AHRC-funded £937, 000 project ‘TIME’, leading an international team.

Though still an Early Career Researcher, she has over 52 peer-reviewed (since 2011) and 85 ‘grey literature’ publications (since 2007).

In 2018, she was the youngest person to deliver the Golson Lecturer at Australian National University, spoke at the Hay Literary Festival, and delivered two conference plenary papers. In 2020, she delivered a prestigious research colloquium at Kiel University, Germany.

She was educated at Oxford University (MA (Oxon) and MSc) and Cardiff University (PhD).

She was CoI on an AHRC/EPSRC-funded project producing an immersive augmented reality and virtual reality app about the public archaeology landscape project I direct at Bryn Celli Ddu.

She has current research collaborations in Europe in Norway, France, Belgium, Germany, Albania and Spain, as well as in America and Australia.

She has worked in the field in Iran, South Africa, Albania, Ireland, and France, and in post-excavation in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Romania and Serbia. Her scientific dating research, has worked on sites spanning from the Late Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval. In commercial practice in the UK, she worked on major infrastructure projects in the field and in post-excavation including Cross Rail, the South Wales Gas Pipeline, road schemes including the A2 and A30, and major urban projects in Oxford, Stafford, Winchester, Bristol, Southampton and London as well as on commercial projects in France and Ireland.

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