I am currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow researching cultural connections through the archaeobotanical record focusing on the Bell Beaker period.

I obtained a BA/BSc with majors in Archaeology, Geology and an Honours degree in Botany from the University of Melbourne (2005).  I joined the University of Sheffield for an MSc in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy (2007), and my PhD (2015), also at the University of Sheffield, focused on the plant economy of the Kura-Araxes within the context of Bronze Age Near Eastern archaeobotany.

Within the Archaeology Department I have been a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Archaeobotany researching roots and tubers as part of the ‘Integrated Archaeobotanical Research’ project (G. Jones 2007-09), as a Research Officer in Archaeobotany (2009-10) and as Post-Doctoral Research Associate working with Professor Glynis Jones as part of the University of Manchester ERC funded ADAPT project led by Professor Terry Brown.

I have taught Archaeobotany at both the University of Sheffield and the University of Nottingham

I have also worked as a plant macroremains and charcoal specialist for the Sheffield Archaeobotanical Consultancy and in commercial archaeology as a post-excavation supervisor for Headland Archaeology in their Midland and West office.

I have been involved as an archaeobotanist in field projects in Turkey, Georgia, Israel, Bulgaria and the UK at sites dating from the Neolithic to Medieval period.