PhD researcher in Digital Archaeology, University of Glasgow
I am a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, and my work is at the intersection between archaeology and digital media practice. Over the course of my research, I've been focussed on the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands, with a particular focus on the landscapes of Glencoe and Rannoch Moor. Through considering the townships, shielings, crofting landscapes, sheep farms and the contemporary landscape, I’ve explored how as archaeologists we might represent stories about these places throughout time.
My research considers how we might create immersive audio that deals sensitively with perception, immersion and reality, especially when it comes to dealing with a past reality that was very different from our own. Drawing in interdisciplinary links from sound studies, sound art, and performance studies, I’m interested in the embodied, sensory experiences of people that lived in these past landscapes and communicating this with audiences today. By creating field recordings, compositions, and immersive audio media, I explore how thinking about sound and archaeology can be a critical and active form of archaeological research.