Ballot Archive

08 Oct 2020

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Brendon R.J. Wilkins

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MSc, Archaeology (Distinction); PhD candidate, University of Leicester; Member, CIfA; Licensed Director, IAI

Profession or occupation

Projects Director, DigVentures

Grounds for election

Brendon is co-founder of DigVentures, a collaborative archaeology platform specialising in crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and digital methods to increase public participation in archaeological research. Since 2012, DV has raised over £1m in matched grants and crowdfunding for 37 projects across the UK and beyond, bringing innovation to the archaeological process from tech to public engagement. DV has transformed the sector in the adoption of social media techniques for communication of active research in archaeology. Brendon is research active, with a significant publication record comprising 29 book sections, journal papers, articles and presentations. He has held senior posts in two of the largest commercial archaeology contractors in the EU, and lectures internationally on digital, wetland and mortuary archaeology. He is undertaking a PhD at the University of Leicester, entitled: ‘Digging the Crowd: the future of archaeology in the digital and collaborative economies’.

Signatories

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