Tim Neal - further information

I am currently completing my PhD in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield. I have a professional background in tourism and studied landscape archaeology. My research interests emerged through my experiences of cultural landscape tourism and many years as a British migrant in continental Europe. My current thesis, where I have developed a more explicitly anthropological approach, is concerned with contemporary changes in French rural life with a particular focus on the arrival of British migrants. My areas of interest are wide. As well as publishing in the field of tourism and migration, I have maintained an interest in landscape archaeology and am currently preparing an edited volume for publication with BAR (British Archaeological Reports) on archaeological approaches to graffiti.

Academic Honours

Visiting Research Associate, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, University of Leeds Metropolitan

Teaching

I have assisted as a demonstrator on modules within the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield (2006-2007).

Current Education

• PhD in the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield funded by the ESRC (2006 - ongoing)

Previous Education

• BA (Hons) Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Third Class (1980 - 1983)
• Masters in Landscape Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Distinction (2000 - 2005)
• MA in Planning Research and Theory, University of Sheffield (2005 - 2006)

Professional Experience

• ARHC Research Assistant to the Mitchell and Kenyon Project (National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield 2001-2003)
• Project Manager to the Heritage Lottery funded Hull Fair Project (National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield 2003-2005)
• Editor of assemblage the online journal of archaeology at the University of Sheffield www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/issue8/index.html

Selected publications

• (forthcoming). 'British migrants and landscape: Look at that, that's why we're here!' in Lifestyle Migration: Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences. K. O'Reilly and M. Benson, eds. Aldershot, Ashgate.
• (forthcoming). (Neal, T. and J. Oliver, eds.) Wildsigns: inscribing society. In the series Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports.
• 2008. 'White Wings and Six-Legged Muttons: The Freakish Animal', in Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain. M. Tromp ed. Ohio, Ohio State University Press, pp. 60-76.
• 2006. 'Practice Makes Perfect: A Discussion of the Place of the Brochure Image in Landscape Tourism', in Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology. I. Russell ed New York, Springer, pp: 297-314
• 2005. 'Le brochure: un limite all'esperienza turistica', in Storia del turismo. Annale 2004, pp. 83-92.
• 2004. Neal, T., V. Toulmin, Vick, R. 'Mitchell and Kenyon: a successful, pioneering and travelled partnership of production', in The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film. V. Toulmin, S. Popple and P. Russell eds. London, British Film Institute, pp. 6-12.

Conference presentations

• 'Tourism as membrane', Mobilities Panel, Association of Social Anthropology Conference 2007, London Metropolitan University. Available on the Lifestyle Migration Hub: www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/lmhub/documents/tourism_as_a_membrane_asa07_panel_d1_v1.pdf
• 'Once upon a time: truth as an expression', Material Culture Panel, Association of Social Anthropology Conference 2007, London Metropolitan University) subsequently published on Archaeolog: traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2008/03/once_upon_a_time_truth_as_an_e.html

Network membership

• Lifestyle Migration Hub www.lifestylemigration.net
• Post Graduate Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers
  

Contact Details

Tim Neal, PhD Student,
The University of Sheffield,
Department of Town and Regional Planning,
Geography and Planning Building,
Winter Street,
Sheffield,
S3 7ND

Office: +44 (0)114 2226908

email : tim.neal@sheffield.ac.uk