Dr Caroline Pudney
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology. Working on widening impactful access to heritage and cultural opportunities and exploring the social value of archaeology in today's world. Amongst other things, Caroline is currently leading a multidisciplinary project exploring archaeology, prison education and justice capital. Caroline joined the academic team in 2014 moving from her role as Community Archaeologist for Cadw, The Welsh Government’s Historic Environment Service. She has a background in Iron Age and Roman archaeology, commercial archaeology, and public and community engagement (among other things). Caroline has experience communicating archaeology to the public through a range of media and is passionate about providing opportunities for people to get involved in, and inspired by, archaeology. Her research specialisms and teaching interests cover Iron Age and Roman Britain, the archaeology of material culture, and aspects of public archaeology including exploring neurodivergence and archeaological reconstructions, archaeology and education, as well as the conttribution archaeology can make to wellbeing.
Teaching and Supervision
Caroline teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate levels in archaeology and heritage practice. She especially teaches on Public Archaeology and heritage, later Prehistoric and Roman archaeology, material culture (theory and practice), fieldwork and archaeological methods.