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Dr Jim Leary
Senior Lecturer in Field Archaeology

Biography

Jim completed a BA in Archaeology at the University of Cardiff in 1998 and the same year joined Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd in London. In 2005 he moved across to the Research Department at what was then English Heritage as ‘Archaeologist (Prehistory)’, conducting major excavations into Silbury Hill in 2007 and 2008, as well as in the Pewsey Vale. Alongside this, between 2007 and 2013 he undertook a part-time PhD at Manchester, which looked at perceptions of and responses to sea-level rise in the Mesolithic. In 2012 Jim took a sabbatical to be the ‘Field Archaeologist in Residence’ at the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, and then left in 2013 to join the University of Reading as the Director of the Archaeology Field School, conducting major excavations in Wiltshire. He joined the University of York as Lecturer in Field Archaeology in 2018.

His research focuses on later prehistoric landscapes, monuments, and mobility and movement in archaeology.

In 2015 Jim was a BBC/AHRC ‘New Generation Thinker’ finalist, and in 2018 was nominated for Current Archaeology’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’ Award.

Contact details

Dr Jim Leary
Lecturer
Department of Archaeology
University of York
The King's Manor
York
YO1 7EP

Tel: (44) 1904 324442