Project Officer
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Tom Dawson







Tom Dawson

Tom helped to set SCAPE up in 2001 and has been working with us ever since. He has an excavation background, and has worked as a field archaeologist in a number of different countries, including Italy, Japan, France and Sri Lanka. He has always been interested in increasing public participation in archaeology and his wide-ranging experience of the different ways that archaeology is practised has helped him to appreciate the numerous and varying approaches advocated to the problems that coastal archaeology presents.
tcd@st-andrews.ac.uk
Katinka Stentoft
Katinka Stentoft

Katinka is a professional archaeologist who works with SCAPE on a freelance basis. She designs and maintains the SCAPE websites and works on some SCAPE projects. She also works at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, where she is curator of Archaeology.
Directors

Dr Barbara E. Crawford MA, PhD (St And.), FRSE, FSA, FSAScot, Member of the Norwegian Academy
Barbara Crawford is an Honorary Reader in Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. She has recently completed ten years' service as a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and she also chaired the Treasure Trove Advisory Panel for Scotland from 1993 - 2004. She is Honorary Director of the independent Strathmartine Centre in St. Andrews, which is part of the Strathmartine Trust, a charity for furthering research and education in Scottish History. Her research interests are primarily an inter-disciplinary approach to the Viking World and Dark-Age Scotland, using archaeological and place-name evidence to supplement historical sources. A major archaeological report of her excavations of a Norse royal farm in Shetland was published in 1999. She is currently directing a project on the Celtic 'papar', which has received two Carnegie Trust Larger Grants.

Dr Ben Ferrari
Ben Ferrari graduated from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 1987 and worked for the Archaeological Diving Unit, based in St Andrews, from 1987 until 1992. He conducted his doctoral research on formation processes associated with submerged archaeological deposits. He then joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England to lead the compilation of the maritime element of the National Monuments Record. This involved working with a wide-range of data-suppliers and users and also involved close liaison with the Receiver of Wreck in the development of new reporting procedures. After leaving the RCHME (now adsorbed into English Heritage) he took up various posts in the Higher Education sector and is currently Director of UniSdirect at the University of Surrey where he is responsible for research funding and commercialisation. He has been involved in developing a wide range of programmes associated with knowledge transfer, including serving on the East Scotland Objective 2 Plan Team. He has also represented the United Kingdom as an expert at both the EC and Council of Europe.

Dr Neil Galbraith
Neil Galbraith has served a Director of SCAPE for the last five years. Formerly a Director of Education and Leisure Services and also acting Chief Executive for the Western Isles Council, he is presently a consultant on Education systems and Policy Development. As a consultant Neil has worked in Russia and the Balkan countries of Montenegro and Albania and is currently acting as the interim Head of the Education and Community Services Department for Shetland Islands Council. Neil is Chair of the Lewis and Harris Building Preservation Trust and is also Vice- Chair of the Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland (HEACS). He has recently been appointed to the Stakeholder Advisory Group which is addressing the 'Audit of the Historic Environment' task that the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport remitted to Historic Scotland, as a precursor to the production of an annual report on the State of the Historic Environment in Scotland. Neil was awarded an OBE in 1997, and also an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University in 1999, for services to Education.

Dr Jim Hansom
Jim Hansom is a geomorphologist with research interests in coastal environments and their management. He is a reader at the University of Glasgow, where he has been based since 1991. He is the director of the Coastal Research Group at the University of Glasgow and has served for the past 4 years as Deputy Chair of the West Areas Board of Scottish Natural Heritage. His recent research has included developing methodologies to analyse the rates of change to Scottish beaches and dunes and is now working on clarifying the mechanisms of extreme wave impact on exposed shores. He has acted as a coastal erosion consultant for many projects throughout Scotland.

Dr Colin Martin
Colin Martin is an Honorary Reader in maritime archaeology at the University of St Andrews. He specialises in the underwater investigation of historic shipwrecks and is a member of the government's Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites. At present he is involved in a project to study the Sound of Mull as a maritime landscape, integrating shipwreck archaeology with the coastal zone and its hinterland. He is chairman of Comunn Birlinn, an educational trust set up to reconstruct and sail traditional Highland galleys.

George McQuitty LLB, NP
George McQuitty spent 30 years in private practice as a solicitor on his own account and is now a part-time Consultant Solicitor and part-time Doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews where his research interests include all aspects of the use of the outdoors as a learning and teaching environment. His studies particularly focus on the implications of the increase of regulation and mitigation of risk in outdoor pursuits and compares attitudes in Scotland with those in Norway and Canada. A qualified coastal skipper and active involved in outdoor leadership in the mountains and on the water both here in Scotland and abroad, George is an enthusiastic amateur environmentalist and naturalist. He is married, has five children and five grandchildren.

Dr Anna Ritchie OBE, BA, PhD, FSA, FSA Scot.
Anna Ritchie is a consultant archaeologist based in Edinburgh. Her research interests lie in the Neolithic of Orkney and the Picts and Vikings in Scotland generally. Her excavations in Orkney have been concerned with retrieving information from sites threatened by coastal erosion. She is a past President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and has served as a Trustee of both the National Museums of Scotland and the British Museum.

John Scott
John Scott lives in Shetland, where he is H.M.Lord-Lieutenant. He works as a farmer in Bressay & Noss and is the Chairman and board member of numerous organisations, including the Woolgrowers of Shetland Ltd; The Belmont Trust; Sail Shetland; Shetland Island Games; Shetland Crofting and the Shetland Amenity Trust. He has also sat on the Farming & Wildlife Group (1984-94), the Shetland Arts Trust (1994-1998) and was a member of the Nature Conservancy Committee for Scotland & SNH Regional Board (1984-1997).

Professor T.C. Smout CBE, FBA, FRSE (Chair)
Professor Smout is Historiographer Royal in Scotland, a former member of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, and also a former trustee of the National Museums of Scotland. He lives in Anstruther, Fife and has a long-standing interest in the history, archaeology and natural heritage of the coast. He is a social and environmental historian.

Dr Richard Tipping
Richard Tipping is a senior lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling. He has been a practising specialist in palaeoecology, environmental archaeology and environmental reconstruction for the last 25 years. His principal research areas are in northern Britain, although he has also worked in the Near East. His major research interests are those of vegetation history, climate change, human impact and geomorphic activity, and the complex links between these components. He has published widely on many aspects of Late Quaternary landscape evolution in four research monographs, over 80 research papers and over 60 contributions to edited books.

Robin Turner (Vice Chair)
Robin Turner is Head of Archaeology for The National Trust for Scotland - a post he has held for over 10 years. An experienced field archaeologist with over 35 years of digging under his belt, Robin's interests in the conservation and management of Scotland's historic environment extend beyond traditional archaeology. He is also passionate about encouraging non-professionals to become involved in archaeology, and energetically promotes projects which make this possible. Robin has been at the sharp end of Scotland's coastal erosion problem, having directed excavations of an eroding site at the edge of a 650ft sheer sea-cliff on St Kilda.

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