Staff Profile:Dr Nicholas Branch

Name:

Dr Nick Branch

Job Title:

Senior Lecturer in Palaeoecology; Director, Quaternary Scientific (QUEST)

Responsibilities:

• Director,  Quaternary Scientific (QUEST)
• Director,  MSc Geoarchaeology

Areas of Interest:

• Archaeobotany
• Palaeoecology
• Quaternary environmental change in South America and Europe

Research groups / Centres:

Archaeological Science Research Group and Landscape and Climate Research Group

Publications:

Scientific Archaeology Research Group

Qualifications:

BSc MSc PhD (London)

Key Facts:

Nick teaches environmental archaeology, and human activity and environmental change, and is the Director of the MSc Geoarchaeology.

His research interests have focused on the relationships between human activities, climate change and vegetation history in Peru, Italy, France, Ireland and the UK. He currently has three major research projects:

• Inca ushnus: Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes funded by the AHRC.
• La Balagne Landscape Archaeology Project, Corsica (funded by the British Academy)
• Climate Change and the Wetlands of Ireland funded by the Irish Heritage Council.

Nick is Director of  Quaternary Scientific (QUEST), an environmental archaeological service facility, which provides specialist expertise to private companies, environmental consultancies and government organisations.

His publications include contributions to: Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches; Ligurian Landscapes, Studies in Archaeology, Geography and History; Bog Bodies: New Discoveries and New Perspectives; Aspects of the Archaeology and History of Surrey.