Tutor profiles

Tutor profiles

Jonathan P. Cannon BA
Jon has worked for English Heritage and the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and specialises in Medieval architecture.  He is the author of The English Cathedrals and the World that made them (2007). A journalist and presenter as well as an architectural historian, in 2008 Jon presented and co-wrote How to Build a Cathedral on BBC4.

John Davey PhD
John started working as a field archaeologist in 1996. He graduated from Bristol University in 2000 and gained his PhD in 2004. He has been a lifelong learning tutor since 2005. He also works on the Dorset Historic Towns Project for Dorset County Council and is a member of Dorset County Council’s Historic Environment Team. In the past John has worked for the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Somerset and Dorset. Research interests include the Roman to medieval transition in SW Britain, medieval landscapes, urban morphology, field systems, and medieval ceramics.

Heidi Dawson PhD
Heidi graduated with a 1st class degree in archaeology in 2001, and obtained a masters degree in osteoarchaeology from the University of Southampton in 2005. She has worked as a field archaeologist and osteoarchaeologist on various projects in the South West and has worked on human remains from periods ranging from the Bronze Age to the postmedieval period. She is currently researching a PhD at the University of Bristol on the growth, health and status of Medieval children. Over the past two years Heidi has been involved in teaching undergraduates and she also runs the local branch of the Young Archaeologists' Club.

Paul Driscoll BA MA
Paul obtained a 1st class honours degree in Archaeology in 2003 and subsequently completed an MA in Landscape Archaeology before embarking on his PhD. Paul's research focuses on the Channel Islands and their involvement in the trade and exchange networks of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Europe.  His main areas of expertise are European prehistory, trade and exchange, the role of material culture within prehistoric societies, world systems and island archaeology.  In addition to this he has a broad range of practical experience including excavation, geophysics, landscape investigation and artefact analysis. Paul has tutored on the Comparative World Archaeology and Introduction to Archaeology undergraduate units at Bristol University. 

Lucia Gahlin BA
Lucia has taught Egyptology to undergraduates and lifelong learners for the universities of London, Reading, Surrey, Sussex and Warwick, and currently for the Universities of Exeter and Bristol. She chairs the committee for the Friends of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London and is a trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society. She is also Deputy Director of Bloomsbury Summer School. She has spent two seasons working at the site of  Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt and works on material from the site of Amarna in the Petrie Museum. Lucia leads tours to Egypt (for Ancient World Tours and Andante Travels among others), and is author of Egypt: gods, myths and religion (Anness, 2001) and chapters in The Egyptian Word edited by T. Wilkinson (Routledge, 2007). She has appeared on several television programmes about Ancient Egypt.

Abby George BA
Abby is a professional archaeological illustrator, producing artwork for archaeological publications and the printing trade. Besides her extensive excavation experience, she also co-founded the reformed Clifton Antiquarian Club and has published on British prehistoric rock art.

Cat Jarman BA
Cat graduated from the University of Bristol in 2004 with a first class honours degree in Archaeology.  Since graduating, Cat has worked at the Roman Baths museum and with outreach work in libraries.   Over the past three years Cat has taught archaeology to lifelong learners on summer schools, evening classes and at dayschools.  She has experience of excavation work in the UK, Germany and Zambia and her research interests include the Southern African Iron Age, artefacts and ancient technology, and heritage management.

Philip R Rowe BA MA PIFA
With a keen interest in military history and archaeology since childhood, Philip obtained his first degree in Archaeology as a mature student in 2004, and an MA in Landscape Archaeology in 2005. He has gained a broad range of experience including commercial excavating, deskbased assessments, geophysical surveying, Geographical Information Systems, landscape investigation and artefact analysis. Philip currently teaches undergraduates and postgraduates, whilst his PhD research focuses on Britain’s home front defences of 1940 and their siting within the landscape.

Sian Thomas BA MA
Sian has a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Landscape Archaeology, both obtained at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the Roman period in Cornwall, particularly the social identity of the inhabitants of Dumnonia during the first to fourth centuries AD. Sian has experience as a field archaeologist and is responsible for a trench every year on the undergraduate training excavation at Berkeley Castle. She also works for Bournemouth University teaching on their foundation degree; Forensic Science with Forensic Archaeology, which is run out of Bridgewater College.

Paul Tubb PhD
Paul has been a field archaeologist since 1981 mainly working in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire.  He is particularly interested in landscape archaeology, the late prehistory of central southern Britain and his current areas of research are linear earthworks, field systems, Bronze Age burial mounds and Iron Age hilltop enclosures .  He has recently completed his PhD on the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition in the Vale of Pewsey.  He has taught archaeology, history and geography in colleges and universities since 1993 and is currently teaching part-time at Bristol, Oxford and Reading Universities.

Tina Tuohy PhD
Tina graduated in Single Honours Archaeology In 1990 at the University of Exeter then went on to do a course in Wetland Archaeology in Leiden University, the Netherlands. She then continued as a postgraduate at Exeter where she received her PhD in 1996 on Iron Age weaving combs. Her special area of study is the 1st Millennium BC and prehistoric crafts. Tina has been working as a part-time lecturer for the University of Exeter’s Department of Lifelong Learning for the past 11 years.

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