Role
Scientific Officer (Palaeoecology & Biogeography)
Qualifications & background
PhD Early Holocene Cooling in the British Isles Queen's University, Belfast
MSc Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy, University of Sheffield
BA (Hons) Environment and Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter
Professional membership
Quaternary Research Association
Association for Environmental Archaeology
American Geophysical Union
Teaching interests
Palaeoecology, palynology, tephrochronology, soils, microscopy, other palaeoenvironmental techniques. Geophysical techniques: ground penetrating radar and magnetic susceptibility.
Research interests
Short-term Holocene climatic change in the terrestrial record (pollen, diatoms, plant macrofossils)
Late glacial/early Holocene transition in the beetle record
Tephrochronology
Environmental archaeology
Ground penetrating radar
Grants & contracts
Reconstructing the Late Glacial-Holocene transition at Hawks Tor, Bodmin Moor in South West Cornwall using beetle remains as an environmental/climatic proxy, School of Geography Research Pump Priming Fund 2008
Publications
Published
Dalwood, H, Griffin, S, Head, K, Hurst, D, Mann, A, and Woodiwiss, S, 2008 Longbridge before Austin. Archaeological investigations at Longbridge, King's Norton, Birmingham, Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, 112: 45-72
Katie Head, Chris S. M. Turney, Jon R. Pilcher, J. G. Palmer, M. G. L. Baillie 2007 Problems with identifying the 8200-year cold event in terrestrial records of the Atlantic seaboard: a case study from Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland, Journal of Quaternary Science, 22(1): 65-75
David N. Smith, Mark Fletcher, Katie Head, Wendy Smith and Andy J. Howard 2010 Environmental reconstruction of a later prehistoric palaeochannel record from Burrs Countryside Park, Bury, Greater Manchester, Environmental Archaeology, 15(1): 16-31
Selected unpublished reports
Head, K and Wilkinson, K, 2005 Environmental remains from Coventry Transport Museum, Hales Street, Coventry, Warwickshire, Worcestershire Historic Environment and
Archaeology Service, report no 1370.
Head, K and Wilkinson, K, 2006a Environmental remains from Cabot House, Deanery Road, Bristol, Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service, report 1440
Head, K and Wilkinson, K, 2006b A palaeoenvironmental assessment at Far Gosford Street, Coventry,Warwickshire, Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service, report 1455
Poster presentations
Katie Head, Chris S. M. Turney, Jon R. Pilcher, J. G. Palmer, M. G. L. Baillie 2005 Problems With Identifying the `8,200 Year Event' in Terrestrial Records of the Atlantic Seaboard: a Case Study From Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland. Poster presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA
