Ballot Archive

30 Jan 2025

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Philippa Walton

Academic degrees, honours etc.

FHEA; PhD Archaeology UCL; Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Diploma Oxford; BA Classics Cambridge

Profession or occupation

Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester

Grounds for election

Philippa is a Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester having worked as a numismatist and small finds specialist for more than 20 years. Her research focuses on the material culture of Roman Britain, with an emphasis on data generated by the PAS. Her most recent project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, explored the deposition of Roman objects in the River Tees at Piercebridge and asked what they reveal about the identities of those who deposited them. It was recognised as the ‘Research Project of the Year’ by Current Archaeology Magazine in 2022. In 2024, with co-PI Prof. Hella Eckardt, she was awarded a £750k AHRC/DFG grant to develop new theoretical frameworks and methodologies for studying riverine deposition in Britain and Germany. She has also published extensively on the function and use of coinage in Roman Britain, particularly in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. She was the first woman awarded the Blunt Prize for Numismatics and is a regular on Time Team.

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