Role
As Development Officer with the University of Plymouth, to help drive and support the development phase of the Heritage Lottery Fund "Parks for People" bid for Drake's Place Gardens and Reservoir in Plymouth.
Qualifications & background
1969-1974 Downside School, Somerset
1974-1977 B.A. (Hons.) Archaeology, University of Southampton
1978-1998 Plymouth City Council: Plymouth City Museums
1978-1988 Assistant Keeper of Archaeology
1988-1993 Assistant Manager, Plymouth Dome
1993-1998 Manager, Plymouth Dome
1998-2011 Lecturer, Archaeology; Tourism. Foundation Degree Programme Leader
2002-date Archaeological Correspondent, BBC Radio 5 Live
1991-date Archaeology and Local History Contributor, BBC Radio Devon
2011 Education Manager (SW), English Heritage
2011-date Development Officer, Drake's Place Project, University of Plymouth
Roles on external bodies
Visiting Lecturer in Heritage Management, University of Buckingham
Committee Member, Plymouth Architectural Trust
Senator, Junior Chamber International
Member, Plymouth Ghana Link
Member, Plympton Rotary Club
Teaching interests
Archaeology
Foundation Degree in Archaeological Practice
Qualification in Archaeological Practice
Theoretical Archaeology
Landscape Archaeology
Heritage and Interpretation
Tourism Studies
Tourism Development
Countryside and Heritage
Research Methods
Visitor Attractions Management
Human Resource Management
Customer Service
Business Systems
Research interests
The Archaeology of Landscape in SW England
The History of Plymouth, Devon
Place-names and Language in Britain
Grants & contracts
World Archaeology contributor, BBC Radio Five Live, "Up All Night", 03.30 every Tuesday. Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/upallnight.shtml
Winner of the Press Award, British Archaeological Awards 2006 for the best coverage of archaeology in the printed press or on radio over the last two years.
SW Archaeology Contributor, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Jersey, "The Late Show" 22.30 every Monday
Publications
Hyland, M.E. & Scutt, W.H. 1991 "Accounting for the Evolution of Psychosomatic Phenomena: Did unco-operative Upper Palaeolithic people become ill and die?" in Bush, H. & Zvelebil, M. Health in Past Societies: Biocultural interpretations of human skeletal remains in archaeological contexts. BAR International Series 567. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum.
