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Professional activities

Academic Director of Continuing Education (2018-2026)
Curriculum Lead for Egyptology (2025- )

Conference Roles

  • Egyptology as Access Point: Teaching Ancient Egypt and Critical Thinking in Prison at CfP Teaching Antiquity and Philosophy in Prisons, by Invitation (Durham, 2026)
  • Cooperation and Competition in the Ancient World: Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, 2022)
  • Disruption for Good: Where Next for Continuing Education at the University of Liverpool? at Leicester Vaughan College: Open Research Forum, by Invitation (Vaughan College, Leicester (via Zoom), 2021)
  • Response Panel: Professor Lynn Meskell's International Heritage Keynote Lecture: Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO’s victory in Nubia. at Response Panel: Professor Lynn Meskell's International Heritage Keynote Lecture: Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO’s victory in Nubia., by Invitation (Liverpool, 2021)
  • Questions and Directions in Archaeology at the Tomb of Ankhtifi at Chronologies and Contexts of the First Intermediate Period, by Invitation (Cairo (Delivered Online), 2021)

Editorships

  • Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (Editorial Assistant, 2006 - 2013)

Examination Roles

  • External Examiner of UG & PG programmes: Manchester University (2021 - 2025)
  • Swansea University, External Examiner of UG & PG programmes: Swansea University (2016 - 2021)
  • Glasgow University, External Examiner of UG & PG programmes: Glasgow University (2016 - 2019)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • SEEC Committee Member (2024 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Egyptology Subject Lead (Department, 2025 - 2026)
  • Chancellor for Liverpool Children's University (University, 2020 - 2025)
  • Academic Director of Continuing Education (University, 2018 - 2026)
  • Academic Lead for Recruitment, Admissions and Widening Participation (Faculty, 2015 - 2018)
  • Liverpool Research Apprenticeship Scheme (LRA) (Faculty, 2017 - 2018)

Media Appearances

  • The Hunt for Cleopatra's Tomb, Arrow TV for Channel 5 and others (international co-production) (Invited, July 2020)
  • Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy, Voltage TV for Channel 5 (Invited, 2019)
  • Egypt's Unexplained Files, 360 Media Productions for Discovery Channel (Invited, 2019)
  • Immortal Egypt with Joann Fletcher, Series 1 Episode 3: Zenith, Lion TV for BBC (Invited, 2016)
  • Raiders of the Lost Past: The Book of Thoth, World Media Rights for Yesterday (Invited, 2013)

Organisations I have been associated with

  • Tate Liverpool (ACE-Garstang Museum-Tate Exchange 'Surreal Egyptology/Egyptian Surrealism' project) (2017)

Professional Body Memberships

  • International Association of Egyptologists (Member, 2016 - present)