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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

Zoe Fraser
Administration / Operations Manager

Email: archaeology-ops@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 6502 

Monday - Friday

  • Overall responsibility for departmental business processes and administration
  • 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

Jake Jarvis
Administration Coordinator

Email: archaeology-ops@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 4803 

Monday - Friday

  • Oversee the day-to-day administrative aspects of the Department
  • Managing the HR processes for the department, including recruitment and staff changes
  • Department Training Officer
  • Deputise for the Department Administration Manager
 

Elizabeth Marshall
Administrator

Email: elizabeth.marshall@york.ac.uk 

Tel: +44 (0)1904 324924

Mon, Tue & Thurs

  • A point of call for staff in BioArCh and PalaeoHub
  • Manages the BioArCh email account, routing enquiries and providing quotes for external work
  • Supports professional and technical support staff with operational tasks
  • Supports the Administration Manager with space management and estate requests

Ruth Philips
Administrator & PA

Email: archaeology-ops@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3084

Monday - Friday 

  • First point of contact for all general enquiries to the department
  • PA to Head of Department and Administration Manager
  • 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

Vicky Moore
Finance Assistant

Email: archaeology-finance@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 3938

Mon - Thurs, Fri (am only)

  • 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
  • Supports the maintainance of the departmental asset register

Student Services Support Team

Ruth Townsend
Student Services Manager

Email: arch-student-services-manager@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

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
  • Management of teaching planning and timetable production
  • 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 Coordinator (PG)

Email: archaeology-pg@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

Tuesday - Friday

  • First point of contact for queries relating to postgraduate programmes from prospective, current and past students and staff
  • Responsible for research (MRes, MPhil/PhD) programme administration and student support across the academic cycle, including: admissions, induction, enrolment, student progression, student records, assessments, confirmation of awards, and prizes
  • Management of scholarships, studentships and DTPs
  • Secretary to and member of PGR Committee (PGRC), PGR Staff-Student Forum and WRoCAH Committee

Rosie Sanger
Student Services Coordinator (UG)

Email: archaeology-ug@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

Monday - Friday

 

  • Act as a point of reference and provide information, advice, guidance and support to students, prospective students, staff and other stakeholders on the student journey and specialised service provided
  • Oversee student progress and support complex student cases
  • Oversee the assessments process
  • Create, manage and maintain information systems pertaining to academic courses, students, and service-related data

James Selway
Student Services Administrator (PG)

Email: archaeology-pg@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

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
  • Secretary to and member of Postgradaute Teaching Committee (PGTC), Postgraduate Taught Board of Examiners and PGT Staff-Student Forum

Paul Dalton
Student Services Administrator (PG)

Email: archaeology-pg@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

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
 

Elle Hough
Student Services Administrator (UG)

Email: archaeology-ug@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

Monday - Friday

  • 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
 

Eve Donlon
Student Services Administrator (UG)

Email: archaeology-ug@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323903

Monday - Friday

  • 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

Michelle Cullivan
Timetabling Administrator

Email: timetabling@york.ac.uk

Monday - Friday

  • Produces the department teaching timetable in TermTime working with the Student Services Manager and Teaching Management Team

Lucy Akturk
Student Wellbeing Officer

Email: lucy.akturk@york.ac.uk 

Tel: +44 (0)1904 325917

Monday - Friday

  • First point of contact for students seeking wellbeing support, or staff with concerns about a student
  • Offers open, non-judgemental space for students to discuss academic or personal difficulties
  • Practical guidance and signposting to specialist services where appropriate
  • Works closely with central University services and departmental staff to provide an holistic approach to student support
 

Research Administration and Support

Jo Tozer
Research Manager

Email: archaeology-research-support@york.ac.uk 
or jo.tozer@york.ac.uk 

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 3921

Monday - Friday

  • 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
Project Manager

Emailseachanges-project@york.ac.uk / arch-chemarchproject@york.ac.uk

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

Josie Thomas
Research and Finance Administrator (BioArCh)

Email: archaeology-research-support@york.ac.uk 
or bioarch@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

Vacant
Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, Administrator

Email: hgcrc-project@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 01904 32 3927

Wed/Thur & Friday (am only)

  • First point of contact for the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre
  • Organisation of Centre events
  • Management of Centre finances
  • Maintenance of the Centre website & associated social media
  • Secretary & Member of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and Green Impact Team

Technical Staff

Richard Hagan
Senior Technical Team Manager and DSA

Email: richard.hagan@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 326471

View Richard’s profile

  • Providing line management support to all technical staff, serving as the Departmental Safety Advisor (DSA), managing Departmental assets

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)

Maria Fontanals-Coll
BioArCh Lab Technician

Email: maria.fontanals-coll@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 8282

  • Preparing and archiving samples
  • Record keeping
  • Local inductions, training and demonstrations of techniques, equipment skills and best practice
 

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

Dr Mik Lisowski
Technical Specialist in Zooarchaeology

Email: mik.lisowski@york.ac.uk 

View Mik's profile

  • Teaching zooarchaeology and archaeological sciences on UG and PG modules
  • Management and curation of the animal bone reference collections
  • Consultant on zooarchaeological research projects
  • Project and research support for staff, researchers and students

Emma Boast
Archives and Finds Technician

Email: emma.boast@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2734

  • Undertake finds project work, including post-excavation assessment and analysis of artefacts, general spot dating, and the production of specialist artefactual reports
  • Liaising with county museums for finds archiving submissions
  • Provide specialist advice to colleagues, including guidance on the integration of finds and dating evidence into the post-excavation process

Sofia Skott

Technician in Ancient DNA and Palaeoproteomics

Email: sofia.skott@york.ac.uk 

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 6471

View Sofia's profile

  • Supporting and carrying out analysis for the ancient DNA and palaeoproteomic projects
  • Ensuring the work area and equipment of the aDNA and proteomic laboratories are kept operational
  • Guidance, training and support for staff, researchers and students

Dr Alexandre Lucquin

Technician in Archaeological Chemistry

Email: alexandre.lucquin@york.ac.uk 

View Alexandre's profile

  • Sample preparation and the extraction of ancient molecules from archaeological artefacts, soils and sediments
  • Operation and maintenance of equipment
  • Training staff and students in data analysis
  • Training  in archaeological chemistry

Andrew Kenney

Technician

Email: andrew.kenney@york.ac.uk

  • Preparing and archiving samples
  • Record keeping
  • Local inductions, training and demonstrations of techniques, equipment skills and best practice

Bronwen Kennedy

Technician

Email: bronwen.kennedy@york.ac.uk

  • Preparing and archiving samples
  • Record keeping
  • Local inductions, training and demonstrations of techniques, equipment skills and best practice

Fieldwork

Mike Bamforth
POSTGLACIAL Project Manager

Email: michael.bamforth@york.ac.uk

View Mike’s profile

  • 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

View Helen’s profile

  • 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

Elaine Jamieson
Fieldwork Project Manager

Email: elaine.jamieson@york.ac.uk

View Elaine's profile

  • Teach fieldwork and project management skills on UG and PG modules
  • Module coordinator for Project Management Skills (PG)
  • To support and manage fieldwork projects as part of the Departments CiFA accredited teaching
  • To develop new areas of fieldwork activity for the department
 

Library & Computing

Dan Brock
Digital Technician in Archaeology & Heritage, and Departmental Computing Officer (DCO)

Email: dan.brock@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 1779

View Dan's profile

  • Provides technical support and expertise to all aspects of research and teaching
  • Teaches on a number of UG and PG modules involving digital techniques
  • Actively contributes to a number of research projects within the department
  • Manages and maintains all departmental IT assets and specialist software

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