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.
