Colin Merrony
Teaching Fellow
Qualifications: BA Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Sheffield (1980); MA Scientific Methods in Archaeology, University of Bradford (1985)
Email address: c.merrony@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: 01142222929
Department address: Department of Archaeology, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ET
Biography
After being inspired by seeing Mortimer Wheeler on television when I was young and by Mr. Norman, one of my history teachers at school I completed the BA in Prehistory and Archaeology at Sheffield in 1980. During the 1980s I combined working in commercial archaeology with involvement in a number of research projects and university field work training programmes (as well as completing my MA in Scientific Methods in Archaeology at Bradford).
At the beginning of the 1990s my involvement with research and training grew with my part-time post at the University of Sheffield. I continued to work in the commercial sector for part of the year while teaching and undertaking research the rest of the year. Also as part of my university job I was involved in setting up a commercial branch which eventually developed in to ARCUS.
In the early 2000s I became a full-time member of staff at the University of Sheffield and while keeping a small involvement in commercial work my time is now spent primarily on co-ordinating and delivering field based teaching, developing community based projects, and supporting research fieldwork.
Research interests
- The economy and landscape impact of Medieval Premonstratensian Abbeys in Britain.
- Landscape change in southern Yorkshire and the North-east Midlands.
- The development and application of field techniques for investigating historic landscapes.
- The use of archaeology as a mechanism for basic skills education and for enhancing social cohesion. The geochemistry of New Zealand greenstone.
Current research projects
- Brodsworth Community Archaeology Project
- Castleton Medieval Hospital Project
Teaching
Undergraduate
Course director for the part-time degree in Archaeology.
Module co-ordinator:
- Archaeology in the Field
- Archaeological Fieldwork: profession and practice
- Decoding the Landscape: integrated methods in landscape archaeology
Postgraduate
- MA in Landscape Archaeology
Selected publications
de Luis, I & Merrony, C. 2010 Dibujo de campo y topografia Arcqueologos (Milan: EDAR Arqueologia y Patrimonio)
Woudstra, J.; Merrony, C. & Klemperer, M. 2005 The Great Parterre at Chatsworth: refining non-invasive archaeological methods as investigation techniques (Garden History 32:1 49-67)