David W. Griffiths

I am (Full) Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and Director of Studies in Archaeology at the Department for Continuing Education. I have taught at Oxford and been a Fellow of Kellogg College since 1999. I studied History and Archaeology at Durham University and was a visiting student and fieldworker at the University of Tromsø, Norway. In the 1990s I was a professional archaeologist working in the gas pipeline construction industry and for a planning consultancy. I have also been a temporary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), Scotland (FSA Scot.) and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA).

Research interests: Viking-Age and medieval archaeology; landscape archaeology (method, theory and practice); past environmental and coastal landscape change; landscape heritage; public engagement and community archaeology. Geographic areas: England, Wales, Northern Isles of Scotland, Irish Sea region, North Atlantic, Scandinavia. I am also interested museums, antiquarianism, material heritage and society.