The UKRI project team has welcomed a new colleague over the summer! Dr Guillermo Diaz de Liaño has joined us pretty much straight from his PhD graduation at the University of Edinburgh to undertake the final specific area of this first phase of research: an ethnographic study of the relationship between archaeology and construction.
Guillermo has a varied and fascinating academic background, starting with a BA in Archaeology at Complutense University of Madrid, in Spain, where he initially became interested in issues of identity. This research focus was furthered during time at Brunel University in London, studying a MSc in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology. This fairly unique combination led Guillermo to a PhD in late prehistoric identity at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied personhood by analysing funerary evidence during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in Southeast Spain. You can read about Guillermo’s research if you want more information.
It is this joint anthropological and archaeological perspective that Guillermo will bring to the UKRI project. He aims to look at various aspects of the occupational contexts of archaeology and construction; their specific languages, their disciplinary cultures and what happens when they overlap. Through interviews and analysis of documentation Guillermo will assess the consequences of these relationships and how they might impact upon archaeology’s ability to provide public benefit.
All our Research Associate positions at MOLA have time embedded within the role for personal research projects, and Guillermo hopes to progress his own interests around the practice of archaeology, gendered fieldwork and the ethnography of our occupation.
