Professional Services Staff
Working alongside our academic staff and researchers is a dedicated team of Professional Services staff. Collectively, the team provides high-quality support to departmental teaching, learning and research activities and ambitions.
Our professional services staff are listed below alongside their main responsibilities to help you contact the right person.
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Laura Parrett
Department Manager
Monday - Friday
Email: laura.parrett@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323901
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- Overall responsibility for professional operations of the department, delivering operational excellence across all administrative activities and support functions
- Supports the Head of Department in strategic development and planning
- Manages departmental resources, including finances, staffing, space and facilities
- Manages HR and recruitment processes
- Member and committee secretary of the Department Management Team
- Committee Secretary of the Department Advisory Board
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Teaching & Learning Support
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Angela Ranson
Student Services Manager
Monday - Friday
Email: arch-student-services-manager@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 324950
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- Responsible for ensuring an effective and efficient delivery of a high-quality administrative support service, and excellent student and staff experience, in respect of teaching and learning activities across the academic cycle
- Leads and manages the Student Services Team
- Oversight of scholarships, studentships and DTPs
- Member and committee secretary for Board of Studies
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Helen Chan
Postgraduate Administrator
Tuesday - Friday
Email: archaeology-pg@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323963
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- Responsible for PG taught (MSc/MA) and research (MRes, MPhil/PhD) programme administration across the academic cycle, including admissions, induction, timetabling, module choices and student records
- Manage the administration and assessment arrangements for research programmes
- Management of scholarships, studentships and DTPs
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(Position Vacant)
Undergraduate and Assessment (UG & PGT) Administrator
Monday - Friday
Email: archaeology-assessments@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903
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- Responsible for coordinating processes for all taught module (UG & PG) assessments, including setting deadlines, moderation of assessment questions, arrangements for the submission and marking of all assessed work, following up non submission
- Process student progression and award paperwork
- Coordinate and process Exceptional Circumstances claims
- Lead on the administrative arrangements and delivery of Board of Examiners including liaising with Chair and examiners and undertake processes related to confirmation of marks and awards
- Committee Secretary to for Extenuating Circumstances Committee and Boards of Examiners
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Rhys Williams
Undergraduate Programmes Administrator
Monday-Friday
Email: archaeology-ug@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323972
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- Provide support for UG and PG programme administration across the academic cycle, including admissions, induction, timetabling, module choices and student records
- Maintain attendance monitoring systems and monitor data
- Coordinate module and programme feedback processes
- Member and committee secretary for Admissions, External Relations, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health and Safety, UG Teaching and UG Staff-Student Liaison Committee
- Assisting with the Department’s social media and web editing
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Research & Finance Support
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Jo Tozer
Research Manager
Tuesday-Friday
Email: jo.tozer@york.ac.uk/arch-research-support@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323921
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- Provides support for the development, submission and smooth running of externally funded research grants
- Impact Officer for the department
- Research systems support, including PURE, Worktribe and Researchfish
- REF2021 support
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Nell Booker
SeaChanges ITN Project Manager
Tuesday - Friday
Email: eleanor.booker@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323950
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- Liaison with RGO, the EC & project partners
- Co-ordination of project events
- Management of project finances and programme
- Maintenance of the project website & associated social media
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Josie Thomas
Research and Finance Administrator (BioArCh)
Monday - Friday
Email: josie.thomas@york.ac.uk/arch-research-support@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 328802
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- Financial administration for BioArCh including monitoring and management of budgets, commercial activity, procurement and all associated record-keeping and reporting
- Support for the induction of staff and doctoral students
- Research grant post-award support including the production and interpretation of budgetary information
- Planning and managing the use of space
- Point of contact for visitors
- Liaison with technical staff in the management of equipment and resources
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Vicky Moore
Research and Finance Administrator
Monday - Thursday, Fri a.m.
Email: vicky.moore@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323938
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- Processing of invoices, expense claims and casual payroll claims
- Administration of Departmental credit cards
- Purchasing
- Research project support
- Web editing
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Laboratory Technicians
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Richard Hagan
Senior Research Technician
Email: richard.hagan@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 326471
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- Providing laboratory, bioinformatic, and administrative support to researchers and students utilising ancient protein or DNA analyses in their projects
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Becky Knight
PalaeoHub Research Technician
Email: becky.knight@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 328956
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- Research Technician at the PalaeoHub
- Teaching support for human osteology and zooarchaeology practical classes
- Technician for the PalaeoHub labs
- Consultant on zooarchaeological projects within the department
- Providing technical support for dissertations
- Providing key card access
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Gareth Perry
Technical Specialist in Artefact Studies
Email: gareth.perry@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323900
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- Health and Safety Officer for the department
- Management of the laboratories at King’s Manor
- Working closely with colleagues at the YEAR Centre on a range of experimental archaeology projects
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Samantha Presslee
ZooMS Research Technician
Email: sam.presslee@york.ac.uk
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- Providing laboratory and administrative support to researchers and students utilising Zooarchaeology through Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS)
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Helen Talbot
Experimental Officer
Email: helen.talbot@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 328282
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- Maintenance and running of the GC-FID, GC-MS, and GC-c-IRMS instruments in BioArCh
- Method development for amino acid compound specific isotope analysis
- Project and research support for staff, researchers and students
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Matt von Tersch
BioArCh Technician
Email: matthew.vontersch@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 328282
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- Health and safety and induction
- Supporting research projects
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Fieldwork Officers
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Mike Bamforth
POSTGLACIAL Project Manager
Email: michael.bamforth@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323984
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- Project management of the Star Carr fieldwork excavation
- Management of the archive including digitisation, collation and deposition
- Completion of risk assessments, issue log and reports
- Administrative support to the Project Director
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Helen Goodchild
Project and Fieldwork Officer
Email: helen.goodchild@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 323957
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- Teaching fieldwork and computing on a number of UG and PG modules
- Module coordinator for Landscape and Earthworks Survey, Geophysical Survey, Geographical Information Systems, Spatial Analysis in GIS (PG), and Practical: Archaeological Field Survey (UG)
- Project and research support for staff, postgraduates and undergraduate research projects
- Departmental Health and Safety Advisor for Fieldwork
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Library & Computing
