Vince Gaffney

BIOGRAPHY
Professor Vincent Gaffney is Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the Department of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford. Current research projects include the ERC-funded Synergy project "Subnordica" and the AHRC "Taken at the Flood" project - exploring climate change, settlement and colonisation of the submerged landscapes of the North Sea basin. He is also co-PI of Unpath'd Waters': Marine and Maritime Collections in the UK ( AHRC Towards a National Collection) and was UK PI of the LBI_ArchPro “Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes” Project where he leads the UK team creating 3D and virtual imaging of the landscape from an extensive programme of geophysical survey of the largely unmapped landscape.

Previous research projects include the ERC Advanced Grant "Europe's Lost Frontiers" and the AHRC "Curious Travellers" projects - the latter using crowd-sourced images for reconstruction of damaged cultural sites, analysis of the Mesolithic pit alignment at Warren Field Crathes, agent-based model of the battle of in Anatolia Manzikert (1071) and Co-PI on the EPSRC Gravity Gradient Project providing imaging for novel gravity sensor development. Other fieldwork has included a major project investigating Roman Wroxeter, survey of the central Adriatic Islands, the wetland landscape of the river Cetina (Croatia), Diocletian’s Mausoleum in Split, fieldwork in Italy centred on the Roman town at Forum Novum, historic landscape characterisation at Fort Hood (Texas) and internet mapping of the Mundo Maya region. Professor Gaffney has wider interests in knowledge exchange and co-PI’d the ERDF/AWM-funded Visual and Imaging Network for the West Midlands industrial region.

Professor Gaffney has received national and international awards for his work including the 2013 European Archaeological Heritage Prize awarded by the European Association of Archaeologists and the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education. His work on inundated marine landscapes received the 2007 award for Heritage Presentation at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. His book “Europe’s Lost World” was awarded the “Best Publication” prize at the British Archaeological Awards in 2010. The UK Institute of Field Archaeologists h selected the project as one of the best of the past decade and RCUK selected as one of 100 groundbreaking UK research projects as part of its “Big Ideas for the Future” publication. In 2018 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Awards for services to scientific research

Professor Gaffney has wide management experience within HE ranging from the establishment of research groups (Submerged Landscapes, VISTA), administration of large schools (The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity) and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Arts and Law.