Dr Phil Barratt
- Research Associate, Research Affiliate (Archaeology)
Research interests
I am an environmental archaeologist with an interest in landscape processes, development and human/nature interactions. I trained as a dendrochronologist for my PhD, which focused primarily on using bog-oaks to investigate mid-Holocene environmental change. As well as researching mire-woodland dynamics, I have archaeological experience in sampling and dating timbers from historic buildings. My chronological skill set also includes radiocarbon age modelling through which I develop age models for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental publications and research projects including the Cultivating Societies INSTAR project, the AHRC funded project 'Celtic Connections and Crannogs' and the HLF funded 'Reconstructing the Wildscape' project . More recently I have become interested in the interplay between contemporary nature-based interventions (e.g. rewilding) and the historic environment. This interest has led to being part of a Royal Society of Scotland research network 'Into the Wild: rewilding and the Historic Environment', a researcher for the NERC funded CASTOR Treescapes project, an AHRC policy fellowship, and most recently joining the research team for the BBSRC funded RESPECT project at the University of Glasgow.
Publications
2023
Whitehouse, Nicki J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, Jenkins, E. and Barratt, Phil
(2023)
Rewilding, the historic environment and moving beyond ‘wilderness’.
Archaeology Scotland, 47,
pp. 14-17.
2022
Brown, A. G. et al. (2022) New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe. Antiquity, 96(389), pp. 1179-1199. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2022.70)
Whitehouse, N.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, Chapman, H., Barratt, P. and Gearey, B.
(2022)
The rivers and meres of Hatfield Chace.
In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.)
Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme.
North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
2010
Whitehouse, Nicki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, McClatchie, Meriel, Barratt, Phil, Schulting, Rick, McLaughlin, Rowan and Bogaard, Amy
(2010)
INSTAR – cultivating societies.
Archaeology Ireland, 24(2),
pp. 16-19.
2009
McClatchie, M., Whitehouse, N.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, Schulting, R., Bogaard, A. and Barratt, P.
(2009)
Cultivating societies: new insights into agriculture in Neolithic Ireland.
In: Stanley, Michael, Danaher, Ed and Eogan, James (eds.)
Dining and Swelling: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2008.
Series: Archaeology and the National Roads Authority monograph series (6).
National Roads Authority: Dublin, pp. 1-8.
ISBN 9780954595579
Articles
Whitehouse, Nicki J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, Jenkins, E. and Barratt, Phil
(2023)
Rewilding, the historic environment and moving beyond ‘wilderness’.
Archaeology Scotland, 47,
pp. 14-17.
Brown, A. G. et al. (2022) New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe. Antiquity, 96(389), pp. 1179-1199. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2022.70)
Whitehouse, Nicki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, McClatchie, Meriel, Barratt, Phil, Schulting, Rick, McLaughlin, Rowan and Bogaard, Amy
(2010)
INSTAR – cultivating societies.
Archaeology Ireland, 24(2),
pp. 16-19.
Book Sections
Whitehouse, N.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, Chapman, H., Barratt, P. and Gearey, B.
(2022)
The rivers and meres of Hatfield Chace.
In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.)
Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme.
North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
McClatchie, M., Whitehouse, N.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-6492, Schulting, R., Bogaard, A. and Barratt, P.
(2009)
Cultivating societies: new insights into agriculture in Neolithic Ireland.
In: Stanley, Michael, Danaher, Ed and Eogan, James (eds.)
Dining and Swelling: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2008.
Series: Archaeology and the National Roads Authority monograph series (6).
National Roads Authority: Dublin, pp. 1-8.
ISBN 9780954595579
