Dave Underhill

After many attempts I finally joined Wessex at the start of 2023, my primary responsibility is the end-to-end management of fieldwork projects, drawing on over 15 years’ experience supervising and directing excavations in both commercial and research contexts I design and develop strategies which ensure the utmost value for our clients whilst maximising the information we can recover.

Originally graduating from the University of Leicester I moved to the University of Southampton to complete an MA and PhD, becoming an expert on the South African Stone Age and the origin of Modern Humans. This led to a varied academic career writing and delivering both Undergraduate and Postgraduates courses on myriad topics such as Professional Skills, Survey and Geophysics, Artefact Analysis, and prehistory amongst others, in addition to a variety of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. Indeed, facilitating learning is my primary motivator, having variously educated for the best part of 30 years, been a STEM ambassador since 2017, and a winner of I Am A Scientist… Get Me Out Of Here in 2019.