Prof. John Schofield

Biography

Professor John Schofield is Head of Department in Archaeology, Director of the Cultural Heritage Management MA programme and Director of the Centre for Applied Heritage Studies (CAHSt). John was previously an archaeologist with English Heritage, where he had the dual responsibilities of being Inspector in the Characterisation Team, and Head of Military Programmes. John joined English Heritage in 1989 and had numerous roles in that time, within heritage protection and policy in particular. Over the past ten years he supplemented work in the heritage sector with regular teaching commitments in the UK and overseas, not least at the universities of Southampton (where he taught a heritage module to undergraduates) and Bristol where he taught MA students. John is also Docent in Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Turku (Finland).

Research Interest

Research interests focus on cultural heritage management, landscape, archaeology of the contemporary past and conflict archaeology. John has published extensively in all of these fields. Recent examples include his co-edited Heritage Reader (Routledge, 2008), Aftermath: Readings in the Archaeology of Recent Conflict (Springer 2009), Defining Moments (ed, Archaeopress, 2009), a co-edited Heritage Handbook (Springer, in press), an edited collection on Great Excavations (Oxbow 2011), and After Modernity (with Rodney Harrison, Oxford University Press 2010). Several of John’s projects have also been published in the pages of the magazine British Archaeology, while his now oft-cited Transit Van project can be seen online, in the short film ‘In Transit’ (Greg Bailey 2005)