As Communications & Marketing Assistant, my role is to help engage new audiences with archaeology in support of our growing public benefit activities. My work focuses on collaborating with the public to explore and promote the stories archaeology has to tell.
I graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2021 with an M. Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage, achieving a Distinction. I previously graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2020 with First-Class Honours in History. Whilst at Trinity, I specialised in public experimental archaeology as a means of empowering stakeholders. I was also fortunate to gain experience in Social Media Content production for Century Ireland, a decade-long government sponsored digital history project commemorating Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries. I captured the passions and politics of the Anglo-Irish Treaty debates by creating quote cards for Twitter to engage local and global audiences.
Wessex Archaeology attracted me as a company keen to develop its ethical values through growing its young talent and public stakeholder relations. I admire their holistic approach to embedding social aims within commercial business and feel I have meaningful contributions to make in strengthening this strand of the business. I’m particularly keen to explore how local sites can be meaningfully translated on an international stage.
I am passionate about social justice initiatives. I aim to revise contemporary public engagement formats and empower a more representative segment of society to take ownership of their shared cultural heritage.
Outside of work, I gravitate towards anything social history or archaeology related and take a keen interest in social archaeology initiatives. I’m also a rock enthusiast – both the music genre and rock climbing. Besides this, you’ll find me cycling, hiking, sea swimming or creating artwork. Between 2019 – 2020 I also spent a substantial amount of my spare time volunteering with English Heritage at their experimental Late Bronze Age Roundhouse reconstruction at Beeston Castle. This quite arguably provided the spark for my Public History research and current career path.