Garry Gibbons

Prior to graduating in archaeology from the University of Southampton, Garry worked in design, publishing, print and photography for some 20 years. For a short period he was Publication Manager and Graphics Office Manager at Oxford Archaeology before jointly establishing 3’s Company Limited. He lectures on a part-time basis at Swindon College, contributing to an MA program in archaeological illustration and occasionally provides archaeology courses at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton exploring how images were deployed in a county-specific context and, particularly, how those images participated in wider spatial and temporal webs of reference during the latter half of the nineteenth century; a time when the theoretical foundations of archaeology as a discipline were being established.

Garry Gibbons

Prof. Stephanie Moser

Professor Stephanie Moser specialises in archaeological representation, with a research focus on the construction of disciplinary knowledge through visual presentation, museum exhibition and community archaeology/museology. She has explored these subjects through detailed investigations of the exhibition of ancient Egypt in the nineteenth century, the history of visual imagery in archaeology, and the involvement of source communities in the presentation of their heritage. More generally, Professor Moser’s publications seek to outline the two-way knowledge exchange between academic knowledge and the representation of the past.

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/profiles/moser.html

Dr Simon James

Dr Simon James read archaeology at the London Institute of Archaeology, where he also did his PhD, by which time the Institute had become part of University College, London. From the start of his archaeological career he took a particular interest in graphical representation: through photography and line illustration, from site recording through to publication. His involvement with the excavation of post-Roman timber buildings at Cowdery's Down, Hants., led to a special interest in archaeological reconstruction illustrations. This in turn led to his first job at the British Museum, as illustrator for a book on post-war British archaeology. His subsequent work there as a museum educator resulted in published work on the theory and practice of archaeological reconstructions relating to publications and the museum environment.

After a decade at the British Museum, he returned to university research and teaching, first as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the University of Durham, then since 2000 at the University of Leicester. In his recent work on the Roman military, he has continued to experiment with the creation of 2-D archaeological reconstructions as tools for research, as well as for communication of archaeological data and interpretations.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/james

Prof. Sam Smiles

Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth. He has published widely on the relationship between antiquarianism and the visual arts in the 18th and 19th centuries, and on the archaeological turn in aspects of British modernism. His books include The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994), Eye Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain 1770-1830 (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Press, 2000) and, co-edited with Professor Stephanie Moser, Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/ssmiles

Prof. Steve Woolgar

Professor Steve Woolgar is a Sociologist who holds the Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, and is a Professorial Fellow of Green College, University of Oxford.

He was formerly Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He took his BA (First Class Honours), MA and PhD from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He has since held Visiting Appointments at McGill University (Sociology '79-81), MIT (Program in Science Technology and Society, '83-84), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, '88-89) and UC San Diego (Sociology, '95-96). He is the winner of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, and an ESRC Senior Research Fellowship. From 1997-2002 he was Director of the ESRC Programme Virtual Society? - the social science of electronic technologies comprising 22 research projects throughout the UK.

He has published widely in social studies of science and technology, social problems and social theory. His books include Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (with B Latour, Princeton, 1986); Science: the Very Idea (Routledge, 1988); Knowledge and Reflexivity (Sage, 1988); The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science (with S.Fuller and M.de Mey, Kluwer, 1989); Representation in Scientific Practice (with M. Lynch, MIT, 1990); The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work (with K.Grint, Polity, 1996) and Virtual Society? Technology, cyberbole, reality (Oxford University Press, 2002). His work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.

His main current research projects include governance and accountability relations in mundane technical solutions to public problems; the social dynamics of provocation; the value of radical academic ideas for business and management. He additionally works on technology and organisational change, branding and brand development, public service management, marketing in practice, the social and organizational dimensions of futuring, the rise of ethics in organizations, social theory, and visualization and evidence in eScience.

He has served on the EC (VALUE) Think Tank charged with devising strategy for "Interfaces between research and society"; on two UK government Foresight Panels (Information Technology, Electronics and Communications; and Leisure and Learning); on two Ministerial Advisory Groups: E-Commerce and Consumer Affairs; as advisor to the Cabinet Office "Better Government" team; to the POST “Electronic Government” initiative; and on several ESRC Programme Commissioning Panels. He is a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, the UK Cabinet Office think tank on Public Service Management. He has also been an advisor to the Research Councils of Denmark, Netherlands and Norway. He was a member of the HEFCE RAE Sociology Panel (1996 and 2001). He is a member of Council of Which? (the Consumer’s Association) www.which.co.uk , and Chair of Auditory Verbal UK www.auditoryverbal.org.uk, the charity which enables speech and language in hearing impaired children.

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/insis/people/Pages/SteveWoolgar.aspx

Sara Perry

Sara Perry is a PhD student in archaeology at the University of Southampton. She completed her undergraduate and Master’s degrees at the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC, Canada) and has since presented these studies in articles and at conferences in Canada, the US, Australia and Europe. Her research interests centre on archaeological visual representation, visual methodologies, the history of science, archaeological theory and practice, and critical pedagogy. Her PhD thesis probes the epistemological significance of imagery in the professionalisation of archaeology.

Rob Read

After studying fine art at college Rob’s drawing skills were put to good use during his time at Tewkesbury Archaeological Committee combining both excavation and post excavation duties. This continued when transferred to the Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset (CRAAGS) and after a short time was promoted to the role of Senior Archaeological Draughtsman managing the drawing office. Within a year Rob had been appointed as Illustrations and Records Officer at the newly established Trust for Wessex Archaeology where he established and managed the graphics office for twelve years before becoming a freelance illustrator.

Rob spent four years as Commissioning Editor - Line Drawings for Macmillan Publishers Limited originally seconded from Wessex but then on a freelance basis. Since 1993 he has been a specialist Tutor at Swindon College, School of Art & Design and continues to contribute to the present MA programme in archaeological illustration.

Rob has actively been involved with the association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors during the whole of his career and continues to do so. Elected to two terms as Chairman Rob is at present a member of the AAI&S Council and also acts as Chair of the Institute for Archaeologists Illustrators and Surveyors Special Interest Group.

Steve Cheshire

After graduating in archaeology from the University of Bradford, Steve worked as an archaeological illustrator for the Museum of London Archaeological Service moving on to become senior archaeological illustrator for Oxford Archaeological Unit, later Oxford Archaeology before jointly establishing 3’s Company Limited.

Steve taught graphic design to HND and BTec National Diploma students at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College and was course coordinator for A-Level Art before setting up a fine art print company which he was a director until 2009. Steve now works as a freelance archaeological illustrator and graphic designer. He is also actively involved in with several environmental charities including Butterfly Conservation and regularly undertakes chainsaw contract work in wildlife habitat management during the winter months.