Professional Services Staff

Working alongside our academic and research staff is a dedicated team of professional administrative and technical staff. Collectively, the team provides a high-quality administrative and technical support service, supporting departmental education and research activities and ambitions.

Department Operations and Administration

Laura Parrett
Department Manager

Email: laura.parrett@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3901

Monday - Friday

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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 of Department Management Team
Committee Secretary to the Department Advisory Board

Vicky Moore
Administrator & PA

Email: archaeology-ops@york.ac.uk or vicky.moore@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3938

Monday - Thursday, Friday AM

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First point of contact for all general enquiries to the department
PA to Head of Department and Department Manager
Supports HR processes - annual leave, sickness, recruitment etc.
Manages GTA and casual staffing engagement processes, including recruitment, contracts, right to work checks, payments, sickness etc.
People Database Administrator (PDA)
Support management of space including physical keys, reporting of safety and maintenance issues, managing routine refurbishment etc.
Supports maintenance of external and internal facing departmental webpages
Secretary to the Department Management Team, Department Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Staff Meetings

Ben Myatt
Finance Assistant

Email: archaeology -finance@york.ac.uk or ben.myatt@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 3954

Monday - Friday

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First point of contact for all financial enquiries from staff, students and external stakeholders
Monitors departmental income, expenditure and payments
Raises invoice requests and purchase orders
Processes expense claim forms

Student Services Support Team

Ally Layton-Bennett Student Services Manager Email: arch-student-services-manager@york.ac.uk or Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 4950 Monday - Friday	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, manages and supports the Student Services Team Designs, maintains, implements and reviews local administrative policy and processes Provides expert advice and guidance to staff and students in relation to institutional, faculty and local regulatory frameworks Responsible for the accuracy of curriculum data, and support for curriculum development Coordinates responses to student complaints and appeals Leads on quality assurance and enhancement (QAE) procedures, including internal and external audits Secretary to and member of the Board of Studies (BoS)
Helen Chan Student Services Administrator (PG) Email: archaeology-pg@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3963 Tuesday - Friday View Helen’s profile	First point of contact for queries relating to postgraduate programmes from prospective, current and past students and staff Responsible for PT taught (MSc/MA) and research (MRes, MPhil/PhD) programme administration and student support across the academic cycle, including: admissions, induction, enrolment, module choices, student progression, student records, assessments, confirmation of marks & awards, and prizes Responsible for the administration of PGT placements Responsible for the administration and assessment arrangements for research programmes Management of scholarships, studentships and DTPs Secretary to and member of Postgradaute Teaching Committee (PGTC), Postgraduate Taught Board of Examiners, PGR Staff-Student Forum, WRoCAH Committee and PGR Committee
Marian Alder Student Services Administrator (PG) Email: archaeology-pg@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 6491 Monday - Friday	First point of contact for queries relating to postgraduate programmes from prospective, current and past students and staff Responsible for PT taught (MSc/MA) programme administration and student support across the academic cycle, including: admissions, induction, enrolment, module choices, student progression, student records, assessments, confirmation of marks & awards, and prizes Responsible for the administration of PGT placements Responsible for the administration and assessment arrangements for research programmes Management of scholarships, studentships and DTPs Secretary to and member of Postgradaute Teaching Committee (PGTC), Postgraduate Taught Board of Examiners
Sofia Tecce Student Services Administrator (UG) Email: archaeology-ug@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3903 Monday - Friday View Sofia's profile	First point of contact for queries relating to undergraduate programmes from prospective, current and past students and staff Responsible for UG programme administration and student support across the academic cycle, including: admissions, induction, enrolment, module choices, student progression, student records, assessments, confirmation of marks & awards, and prizes Secretary to and member of Undergraduate Teaching Committee (UGTC), Undergraduate Board of Examiners
Vacant post Assistant Student Services Administrator (Learning Technologies & Student Experience) Email: Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3972 Monday - Friday View profile	Provides administrative support to recruitment events, open days and graduation Creates student files and allocates academic supervisors annually Supports the annual module choices process Responsible for the maintenance and operation of the attendance monitoring system, and integrity of the attendance data Responsible for submission arrangements for formative and summative assessments Coordinates all fieldtrip and excavation logistics Manages visiting students (taught programmes) Receives and processes Student Support Plans (SSPs) Receives and processes Exceptional Circumstances Claims (ECAs) Manages the administration associated with prizes Coordinates module and programme feedback processes Acts as the Department Learning Technologies Lead supporting the use of the VLE, panopto etc. to enhance teaching and learning delivery Secretary to and member of Admissions Committee, Careers Committee, Staff-Student Forums (UG & PGT), Exceptional Circumstances Committee (ECA)
Michelle Cullivan Timetabling Administrator Email: timetabling@york.ac.uk Monday - Friday	Management of department teaching timetable

Research Administration and Support

Jo Tozer Research Manager Email: arch-research-support@york.ac.uk or jo.tozer@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3921 Tuesday - Friday View Jo’s profile	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
Catherine Taylor SeaChanges ITN Project Manager Email: seachanges@palaeome.org Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3950	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
Sarah Dwyer ChemArch ITN Project Manager Email: sarah.dwyer@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 6817 Monday - Friday (9.00 - 16.00) View Sarah's profile	Liaison with RGO, the EC and project partners Co-ordination of project events Management of project finances and programme Maintenance of the project website and associated social media
Josie Thomas Research and Finance Administrator (BioArCh) Email: arch-research-support@york.ac.uk or josie.thomas@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 8802 Monday - Friday View Josie’s profile	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

Laboratory Technicians

Richard Hagan Senior Research Technician Email: richard.hagan@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 326471 View Richard’s profile	Providing laboratory, bioinformatic, and administrative support to researchers and students utilising ancient protein or DNA analyses in their projects
Becky Knight PalaeoHub Research Technician Email: becky.knight@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 8956 View Becky’s profile	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
Gareth Perry Technical Specialist in Artefact Studies Email: gareth.perry@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3900 View Gareth’s profile	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
Samantha Presslee ZooMS Research Technician Email: sam.presslee@york.ac.uk View Sam’s profile	Providing laboratory and administrative support to researchers and students utilising Zooarchaeology through Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS)
Helen Talbot Experimental Officer Email: helen.talbot@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 8282 View Helen’s profile	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
Matt von Tersch BioArCh Technician Email: matthew.vontersch@york.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 8282 View Matt’s profile	Health and safety and induction Supporting research projects

Fieldwork Officers

Mike Bamforth
POSTGLACIAL Project Manager

Email: michael.bamforth@york.ac.uk

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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

Helen Goodchild
Project and Fieldwork Officer

Email: helen.goodchild@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3957

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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

Library & Computing

Vacant post
Computing and Research Technician and Departmental Computing Officer

Email: archaeology-ops@york.ac.uk

Tel:

Running and maintaining computers and associated facilities for the department

Dave Curtis, Kirsty Whitehead, Olivia Else and Tony Wilson
Archaeology Library Liaison Team

Email: lib-archaeology@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3878

Further information about the team

Library team providing support to Archaeology in respect of identifying and responding to library users needs