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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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 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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