Preserving our Past Consensus or collision? Research Cluster participant biographies

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1 Preserving ur Past Cnsensus r cllisin? Research Cluster participant bigraphies Prfessr Peter Brsay, BA, Ph.D (Lancaster), FRHistS is a histrian f early mdern and mdern Britain, with particular interests in urban, landscape and leisure histry, and the histry f heritage. He is member f the internatinal advisry bard f Urban Histry and a cmmittee member f the British Pre-Mdern Twns Grup. His bks include The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Sciety in the Prvincial Twn, (Oxfrd Univ. Press, 1989); The Image f Gergian Bath, : Twns, Heritage and Histry (Oxfrd Univ. Press, 2000); editr with L. Prudft, Prvincial Twns in Early Mdern England and Ireland: Change, Cnvergence and Divergence, Prceedings f the British Academy 108 (Oxfrd Univ. Press, 2002); and A Histry f Leisure: the British Experience since 1500 (Palgrave, 2006). He is currently engaged in research n (i) varius aspects f seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British twns; (ii) the histry f the seaside resrts f Wales and the Bristl Channel (where he c-directs with Owen Rberts and Luise Miskell a prject n Swansea, Tenby and Aberystwyth ); and (iii) is preparing a study f The Discvery f England c , fcusing in particular n the recnfiguratin f the natinal landscape and the develpment f heritage turism. (nnb@aber.ac.uk) James Dixn is currently in the first year f a PhD lking at intersectins between art and archaelgy in the cntext f cmmercial urban regeneratin, jintly supervised by UWE Schl f Art, Media and Design and University f Bristl Department f Archaelgy and Anthrplgy. He als wrks as a Built Heritage and Areas Analyst fr Pre-Cnstruct Archaelgy Limited and CgMs Cnsulting with prjects acrss the cuntry. He is the recipient f a three-year fully funded GWR Studentship in Creative Arts. (jimd_bsamd@yah.c.uk) David Harvey is a Senir Lecturer in Histrical Gegraphy at the University f Exeter. He is interested in heritage thery, the histry f heritage, ral histry, and the heritage f archaelgical sites and histric landscapes. Recent publicatins include a cllectin f papers n ral histry and gegraphy, wrk n histrical gegraphies f Methdism, as well as a chapter n 'the histry f heritage' in the Ashgate Research Cmpanin t Heritage and Identity (edited by Brian Graham and Peter Hward). He is presently starting wrk n an AHRC-funded prject n creative arts and reginal identity in Suth West Britain. (d.c.harvey@ex.ac.uk) Dan Hicks is Lecturer-Curatr in the Archaelgy f the Mdern Perid, based in the Schl f Archaelgy and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxfrd University. He is a Fellw f St Crss Cllege and Research Fellw in the Department f Archaelgy, Bstn University. He is an anthrplgical archaelgist, specialising in the study f the recent past, and with reginal expertise in the eastern Caribbean and the United Kingdm. His wrk fcuses n histrical archaelgy, the archaelgy f Eurpean clnialism, the histry f archaelgy, archaelgical appraches t cultural heritage, and theretical and applied appraches t the study f material things in the scial sciences. He is a Member f the Institute f Field Archaelgists (MIFA) and sits n the Grants Cmmittee f the Wrld Archaelgical Cngress.

2 His publicatins include "The Cambridge Cmpanin t Histrical Archaelgy" (CUP 2006, edited with Mary C. Beaudry), "The Garden f the Wrld: An Histrical Archaelgy f Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean" (British Archaelgical Reprts 2007), and "Envisining Landscape: Situatins and Standpints in Archaelgy and Heritage" (One Wrld Archaelgy 52, 2007, edited with Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclugh). Dan is currently cmpleting a bk n the histrical archaelgy f the early mdern Atlantic wrld fr Cambridge University Press, and is editing the "Oxfrd Handbk f Material Culture Studies" (with Mary C. Beaudry) fr Oxfrd University Press. He is als develping a prgramme f research n the archaelgical cllectins f the Pitt Rivers Museum. (dan.hicks@prm..xac.uk)! " #$%& $ '()! (hugh_ce0@wpmail.paisley.ac.uk) '#*%&& # & ( & ( ( * +, Recent Grants: 1999 Rapid lad testing f piles, EPSRC 2001 Getechnics applied t archaelgical resurces, English Heritage 2001 Full scale rapid lad pile test,epsrc 2003 A stchastic mdel fr damage t archaelgical artefacts due t new cnstructin wrk, EPSRC (a.f.l.hyde@sheffield.ac.uk) Dr Siân Jnes Siân Jnes is a Senir Lecturer in the Schl f Arts, Histries and Cultures at the University f Manchester. Her areas f expertise include the archaelgy f identity, the scial value f heritage, and the relatinship between heritage and the prductin f meaning, identity and place. Her earlier wrk fcused n archaelgical heritage and its rle in sustaining ethnic and natinal identities. Mre recently she has carried ut a number f research prjects lking at peple s perceptins f heritage and its scial value using semi-structured interviews and

3 ethngraphic methds. She cllabrated with Histric Sctland during her wrk n scial value and the cnservatin f early medieval sculpture. She was als a theme c-rdinatr and a lead authr fr the UNESCO Heart f Nelithic Orkney Wrld Heritage Site Research Strategy. Siân s current research lks at perceptins f authenticity and the scial dimensins f cnservatin. She has published n all these tpics. Her bks include: The Archaelgy f Ethnicity; Archaelgy and Cultural Identity: the cnstructin f Eurpean cmmunities; and Early Medieval Sculpture and the Prductin f Meaning, Value and Place. (sian.jnes@manchester.ac.uk) Dr Alick Leslie Hydrcarbns gescientist, British Gelgical Survey (frm 2001) Building materials cnsultant, Scttish Lime Centre ( ) Senir Research Assciate, University f East Anglia ( ) Sedimentlgist, British Gelgical Survey ( ) Cnsultancy int: histric mrtar cmpsitin and matching, building stne prvenance, aggregate surcing (fr Histric Sctland). Gelgical research int: carbnate / evaprite systems, ffshre slpe stability, deep water sediments. (aleslie@bgs.ac.uk) Haida Liang is a Senir Lecturer in Physics at Nttingham Trent University. She gained a PhD in Astrnmy & Astrphysics frm the Australian Natinal University. Prir t her current pst, she wrked at the Scientific Department f the Natinal Gallery Lndn n the develpment f nn-invasive techniques fr the examinatin f paintings, the Physics Department f the University f Bristl and Service d'astrphysique f Cmmissariat a l'energie Atmique (Saclay) n varius Astrphysics prjects. Her main research interests are the develpment and applicatin f nn-invasive imaging and spectrscpic techniques t art cnservatin and archaelgy. She is currently leading the Imaging & Optics fr Art Cnservatin & Archaelgy grup at Nttingham Trent University. She has experience wrking n varius internatinal and natinal cllabrative prjects invlving museums, industry and academia. (haida.liang@ntu.ac.uk) Helen Llyd, ACR, FIIC, received a diplma in cnservatin f ceramics at West Dean Cllege in 1981, when she jined the Natinal Trust. Prmted t The Husekeeper in 1989, she recruited and develped the team f 17 reginal cnservatrs until 2002 when her title changed t Preventive Cnservatin Adviser (Husekeeping) and Deputy Head Cnservatr. She nw fcuses n strategies fr achieving a sustainable balance between cnservatin and visitr access in histric huses, the develpment and interpretatin f preventive cnservatin plicy and husekeeping practices, and training fr cnservatrs and huse staff. She cntinues t advise n ceramics and glass cnservatin. In 2000 she became an Accredited member f the Institute f Cnservatin and in 2007 was elected a Fellw f the Internatinal Institute fr Cnservatin f Histric and Artistic Wrks. She is currently a Trustee f the Institute f Cnservatin and a member f the Cultural Turism Cmmittee f ICOMOS-UK. Address: The Natinal Trust, Heelis, Kemble Drive, Swindn, SN2 2NA, UK. helen.llyd@natinaltrust.rg.uk -

4 Eric May (Reader in Micrbilgy, University f Prtsmuth) is an envirnmental micrbilgist with an interest in the part that bacteria play in the deteriratin f stne in histric buildings and mnuments. He recently acted as Crdinatr fr EU prgramme BIOBRUSH (a 5FP prject cncerned with biremediatin fr cnservatin f cultural heritage using mineralising and calcite-prducing bacteria ( Organiser f HMS 2005: Heritage Micrbilgy and Science in Prtsmuth in June 2005 ( fllwing meetings in Flrence (1999) and New Yrk (2002). (eric.may@prt.ac.uk) Angela McClanahan lectures in Museum Studies in the Schl f Fine Art, Histry f Art and Cultural Studies at the University f Leeds, and als teaches heritage and material culture curses at the University f Glasgw's Crichtn Campus. She has an undergraduate degree in cultural anthrplgy frm Frt Lewis Cllege, USA, and earned her dctrate in archaelgy frm the Schl f Arts, Histries and Cultures at the University f Manchester in Funded in part by a Histric Sctland PhD studentship, her thesis explred peple's embdied engagements with Nelithic remains in the Orkney Islands, and the rle f the mnuments in creating and structuring senses f place and belnging fr bth visitrs and thse living in the cmmunities surrunding the sites. Currently, her research fcuses n peple's engagements with the histric envirnment in the Old and New Twns f Edinburgh Wrld Heritage Site. Brader interests include the intersectin f visual anthrplgy, cntemprary art thery and ethngraphy. (ajmcclanahan@yah.cm) )) / 0 1 2&!) ' ) #&*! 31! 4!5 Paul Rney Artist Paul Rney was brn in Liverpl in 1967, and trained at Edinburgh Cllege f Art. Paul s individual practice fcused frm 1997 t 2000 n the music f the Rney CD s and perfrmances. He achieved an appearance in Jhn Peel s Festive Fifty in 1998, and a Radi 1FM Peel sessin by Rney was bradcast in Paul nw primarily wrks with text, sund and vide, with the vices f semi-fictinal individuals, and their relatinship t place, as the general subjects f the wrks. The wrks use r reference narrative frms such as shrt stries, sngs, audi guides and sermns. Paul has shwn recently at Tate Britain, Lndn; BALTIC, Gateshead; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and at the Shanghai Biennial, and recent cmmissining bdies include Ikn Gallery, Birmingham and Site Gallery, Sheffield. He has had residencies at Dundee Cntemprary Arts/University f Dundee VRC and Pryect Batiscaf, Cuba, and was the Tate Liverpl MOMART Fellw fr , the ACE Oxfrd-Melburne Artist Fellw fr 2004 and is currently the United Artist s Fellw at the University f Wlverhamptn. Paul has recently shwed in British Art Shw 6 which tured arund the UK in Other recent prjects include a red vinyl recrd bradcast n Radi Lancashire, Radi 1 and BBC 6 Music, a vide piece fr Film and Vide Umbrella turing t eleven cities arund Eurpe and a shrt stry published by Serpent s Tail. Paul is currently wrking twards separate sl shws at Matts Gallery, Lndn, and Cllective Gallery, Edinburgh, in 2008.(paulrney2@yah.c.uk).

5 Steve Shaw # $7&7 & 2 & %2*!" 8 9, 8!) & $ &%&:*:; 7&0 + Interest in heritage: Steve s particular interest is the scial implicatins f heritage-led regeneratin. This includes the heritage f ethnic and cultural minrities in cities that are gateways t immigratin: its symblic significance t the cmmunities cncerned and its re-presentatin t visitrs as Chinatwns, Greektwns, Punjabi Markets etc. Mre bradly, he is interested in the heritage f urban public spaces, and the develpment f tls fr cmmunity participatin t supprt practitiners especially urban designers, planners and heritage attractin mangers wh are wrking t imprve the public realm f histric areas fr lcal users as well as visitrs. (s.shaw@lndnmet.ac.uk) Dr Andy Smith Science & Technlgy Facilities Cuncil Daresbury Labratry Andy Smith is a physicist by training and has wrked in synchrtrn radiatin fr 20 years. His main areas f expertise during this time has been the design and peratin f x-ray instrumentatin including ptics, micrfcussing and detectrs. In recent years he has gt increasingly interested in the explitatin f synchrtrn radiatin techniques t heritage science studies. Recent prjects include the histric prductin methds f Islamic lustreware and the cnservatin f marine timbers frm the Mary Rse and the Cutty Sark. He is currently lking t ways in which ther medium and large scale natinal facilities and expertise perated r accessed by STFC can be utilised fr heritage science research. These include ther analytical techniques such as high reslutin XPS & STEM, lasers, neutrns, cmputatinal mdelling and data archival and access. (a.d.smith@dl.ac.uk) Dr. Heather Viles Heather is a gemrphlgist wh wrks at the interface f gemrphlgy with eclgy, engineering gelgy, envirnmental chemistry and materials cnservatin. In recent years her research has fcused n Bilgical cntributins t gemrphlgy; Weathering, gemrphlgy and landscape evlutin in extreme envirnments (hyper-arid, castal, cld, and Mars); and Building stne decay and cnservatin. She maintains a strng interest in develping and applying nvel techniques and ideas t the study f these themes. On-ging research prjects include studies f whether ivy is damaging r prtective fr ancient walls, the use f sft wall capping in the cnservatin f ruined mnuments and the implicatins f climate change fr the deteriratin f building limestnes. Her research is currently funded by EPSRC, The Leverhulme Trust, English Heritage and NASA. She is c-directr f the MSc in Drylands, Science and Management and runs OUCE s Rck Breakdwn Labratry. (heather.viles@uce.x.ac.uk) 6