°team northlight

Alan is a highly experienced heritage consultant and former director of Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD). He has been responsible for planning and managing complex major heritage projects and regularly assists clients in the development process. He has acted as an expert witness in Public Inquiries, and in the preparation of evidence for them, across the United Kingdom. Alan has lectured in archaeology for over 20 years at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and is Co-ordinator of the Certificate in Field Archaeology and Academic Tutor in the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Glasgow. He is also active in research with a specialism in Roman archaeology.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694173
• email: [email protected]

Ally is an experienced field archaeologist who has practiced across the UK and in Iceland. He has particular skills in evaluation and excavation, having successfully delivered a range of projects. He has experience of the archaeology of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland having worked on the Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project and the Dun Eistean Archaeology Project. He has excavated and published on a number of Neolithic sites in Scotland, and presented to the Neolithic Studies Group. He is currently directing the excavation of a significant Neolithic site, including timber circles and possible house structures.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694182
• email: [email protected]

Charlotte’s first degree was in Archaeology and Heritage Management, after which she practiced in France, Ireland and across the UK. She has expertise in survey using total stations, differential GPS and terrestrial laser scanners, for measured topographic and 3D standing building surveys, to produce high quality illustrations and visualisations. She recently imaged and modelled four archaeological sites under threat from coastal erosion; this involved mapping coastal change from 1881 to 2010 using laser scanner techniques and post-processing datasets against historical maps, Lidar datasets and RTK-GPS. She is a Graduate member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) .

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694175
• email: [email protected]

Dave is an experienced field archaeologist who has worked across the UK and in Libya, Jordan and Greece. He has particular expertise in heritage assessment through coastal zone survey and producing cultural heritage chapters for Environmental Impact Assessments. This has led him to undertake major programmes of walkover survey, one project requiring 440 kilometres of corridor to be assessed. He also has skills in forestry archaeology, for example having trained and collaborated with local volunteers on projects such as Lochan Taynish charcoal burning platform and Strathmashie Forest Community Heritage Project. Dave is currently coordinating the archaeological mitigation on a major infrastructure project in Scotland.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694184
• email: [email protected]

Edouard is an experienced archaeologist who has practiced in Scotland, France and Canada. He has contributed to the Dun Eistean Archaeology Project and the Ness Archaeological Landscape Survey. As well as his field experience, he has particular expertise in Database and Geographic Information System (GIS) management, conceptual data modelling, predictive modelling and spatial analysis. Edouard also has skills as a zoo-archaeologist and has undertaken faunal identification and analysis of assemblages from both Scotland and Canada. He is a member of the International Council for Archaeozoology and the Association for Environmental Archaeology.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694174
• email: [email protected]

Gavin is a highly experienced heritage professional with a specialism in linear route and landscape scale projects. Key projects include managing the production of the Cultural Heritage chapter for one of the largest EIAs in Britain, co-directing and managing the archaeological mitigation on the upgrade of the A1 (resulting in the monograph The Lands of Ancient Lothian), and co-directing on the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project. Gavin recently contributed to an inter-disciplinary project producing a development environment framework tool to balance ecological, cultural heritage, landscape and green-space issues. As Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, he is active in research and is collaborating on the RSE-funded workshop series Transforming practice: inter-disciplinary research into the philosophies, methods and impacts of the ways in which we value landscape.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694172
• email: [email protected]

Heather is a highly experienced archaeologist who has practiced across the UK and in Italy, France, Peru and Jordan. She has expertise in Medieval archaeology, with a PhD on Medieval Rural Settlement: A case study of Mid Argyll, Scotland. She has directed major projects resulting in publications such as Excavations at St Ethernan's Monastery, Isle of May, Fife 1992-1997 and A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish cross-slab excavations at Hilton of Cadboll chapel, Highland from 1998 – 2003. Most recently, Heather was volunteer liaison officer for the High Morlaggan Community Archaeology Project. Heather also directed the Castle Craig excavations, which are part of the University of Glasgow's Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) project .

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694185
• email: [email protected]

Jennifer is a leading authority on palaeo-environmental analysis with particular expertise in the identification of charcoal and waterlogged macro-plant remains: her PhD was an archaeobotanical investigation of Oakbank crannog, a prehistoric lake dwelling in Loch Tay, the Scottish Highlands. She has undertaken analysis and published on several hundred palaeo-environmental assemblages from across the UK and internationally. She is currently developing the range of Northlight Heritage environmental services. Jennifer also has expertise in archaeological forensics and provides an important forensics service to police forces across the UK, advising on body recovery, undertaking analysis of remains and appearing as an expert witness at Crown and High Courts. Jennifer is Scotland’s representative on the Home Office Forensics Archaeology Standards Committee.

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7776 237401
or +44 (0)7432 694176
• email: [email protected]

Ingrid has significant experience of outreach and community engagement, and spent three years as Training Director for Shetland Community Archaeology Project. She wrote four synthetic regional histories for the Regional Framework for Local History and Archaeology series for Glasgow Museums. Ingrid also has expertise in the application of IT in archaeology and cultural heritage and is industry standard proficient in a range of illustration, desktop publishing, web development and GIS software packages. She has been responsible for the design, build and management of database management systems and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for large-scale complex projects. She has designed, developed and maintained project and company websites including The Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project, Scottish Archaeological Forum (and this one).

Contact:
• tel: +44 (0)7432 694183
• email: [email protected]

Olivia is a highly experienced heritage professional with a wide range of experience and expertise in developer-funded and research archaeology. She co-directed and managed the archaeological mitigation on the upgrade of the A1, resulting in the monograph The Lands of Ancient Lothian, and has most recently co-authored Winds of Change, a monograph on St Kilda World Heritage Site. She has a long-held commitment to community engagement and training in the field, having directed the Shetland Community Archaeology Project excavations (2004-7), the Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project (2004-present) and Aberdeen University’s archaeological field school (1997-2001). She holds a PhD on multi-period landscapes of Highland Scotland and, as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, is active in research. She is especially interested in the historical texture of landscapes and is developing initiatives to explore and explain chronological depth on a landscape scale in areas of Scotland and in France, where she is currently based.

Contact:
• tel:+44 (0)845 901 1142
• email: [email protected]