University Of Birmingham

Faculty Member, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity

Professor of Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics

College of Arts and Law

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BIOGRAPHY
Professor Vincent Gaffney is Chair in Landscape Archaeology and Director of the IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, University of Birmingham. Current research projects include mapping the inundated landscapes of the Southern North Sea, agent-based model of the battle of Manzikert (1071) in Anatolia and the “Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes” Project where he leads the UK team creating 3D and virtual imaging of the landscape from an extensive programme of geophysical survey of the largely unmapped landscape. He is a Co_PI on the EPSRC Gravity Gradient Project providing imaging for novel gravity sensor development.  Other fieldwork has included a major project investigating Roman Wroxeter, survey of Diocletian’s Mausoleum in Split, the wetland landscape of the river Cetina (Croatia), fieldwork in Italy centred on the Roman town at Forum Novum, historic landscape characterisation at Fort Hood (Texas) and internet mapping of the Mundo Maya region.  Professor Gaffney has wider interests in knowledge exchange and co-PI’d the ERDF/AWM-funded Visual and Imaging Network for the West Midlands industrial region. Professor Gaffney has received national and international awards for his work including the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education.  His work on inundated marine landscapes received the 2007 award for Heritage Presentation at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. His book “Europe’s Lost World” was awarded the “Best Publication” prize at the British Archaeological Awards in 2010. The UK Institute of Field Archaeologists has also recently selected the project as one of the best of the past decade and RCUK selected as one of 100 groundbreaking UK research projects as part of its “Big Ideas for the Future” publication. Professor Gaffney has wide management experience within HE ranging from the establishment of sustainable research groups (VISTA), administration of large schools (The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity) and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Arts and Law.

See the VISTA web site at http://vista.bham.ac.uk/

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