Kevin Colls

Kevin is a professional archaeologist and Reader of Archaeology working for the Centre of Archaeology based at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. For 24 years, he has directed and published archaeological projects throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and has widely travelled to sites across the world. He specialises in the application of new and innovative digital techniques for archaeological survey, forensic and conflict archaeology, and community archaeology. He has trained undergraduate and postgraduates students in a number of key subjects (including forensic archaeology, archaeological science, archaeological surveying, geophysical survey and archaeology and heritage management). He has completed investigations at Treblinka Death and Labour Camps in Poland, mass grave investigations in Ukraine, Poland, and Croatia, and completed field investigations at the forced labour camps on the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. Kevin also works with numerous police forces as an external consultant associated with the search for buried human remains.

Of his recent global archaeological projects, the highest profile is the prestigious ‘Finding Shakespeare’ Project in Stratford upon Avon, U.K. This internationally important project focuses two key sites; the excavation of the final residence of William Shakespeare (called New Place) and the house in which the Bard passed away, and his grave site at Holy Trinity Church, his final resting place of Shakespeare. This project, and his work on the Scottish Islands, has led to several high-profile appearances on mainstream television programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, and National Geographic. He has recently led a new project in Namibia, carrying out one of the first archaeological investigations into the Herero and Nama genocides in collaboration with Forensic Architecture based at Goldsmiths.