Ballot Archive

08 May 2014

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Benjamin Roberts

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BSc, MPhil, PhD

Profession or occupation

Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Durham University

Grounds for election

Benjamin Roberts completed his PhD on the Origins and Early Development of Metallurgy in Western Europe at the University of Cambridge in early 2007. He subsequently worked until mid 2012 at the British Museum as the Curator for the European Bronze Age collections. This was a wide ranging role which, in addition to the existing museum collections, also encompassed the recording of Bronze Age hoards found by metal-detecting in England and the researching and co-writing of 41 programmes in the British Museum/BBC Radio 4 series and accompanying book A History of the World in 100 Objects. His research focuses on understanding the transmission of new objects and technologies in northwest and southeast Europe from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. He is currently collaborating on a major AHRC funded project The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia, an international and interdisciplinary project exploring copp

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