Staff Profile:Dr John Creighton

Name:

Dr John Creighton

Job Title:

Director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning in Applied Undergraduate Research Skill

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Imagery and the negotiation of power
• Coinage and commodification
• Urban landscapes and social memory

Postgraduate supervision

John is happy to discuss proposals for postgraduate research in any area of Iron Age or Roman studies, particularly areas involving aspects of coinage, economy, urban development, landscape survey and geophysical prospection. For further information, please contact Dr Creighton.

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Publications:

Qualifications:

BA PhD (Durham) FSA

Dr. John Creighton's research centres upon Later Iron Age and Early Roman NW Europe. His books include: 'Britannia: the creation of a Roman Province' (2005); 'Coins & Power in Late Iron Age Britain' (2000), Celti: the archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica (with Simon Keay and Jose Remesal, 2001), and he has co-edited the volume Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction (1999).
His fieldwork has included work in Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Presently he is completing a project, with Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore, examining the landscape in the vicinity of the Iron Age oppidum of Mont Beuvray (Bibract) and the Roman town of Autun in Burgundy.

Teaching

John Creighton is currently seconded until 2010 to direct the Universitys Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, in a project linking teaching and research, and to develop the Universitys Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (www.reading.ac.uk/urop). He is still available to supervise postgraduate degrees by research.