Well this week has been a good week.<\/p>\n
On Monday I found out that the University, in all its wisdom, has conferred the title of ‘Professor\u2019 on me. It\u2019s such exciting and delightful news, and marks the high-point of my career so far. To be honest, I can hardly believe it since it\u2019s all happened relatively fast. I started my PhD in 2000 and polished it off in 2003. After working for Kenyon International<\/a> for 9 months while they were still based in London, I was appointed as a Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology at Dundee in 2004. I had a great time there and learnt a lot, but then in 2007 took a Senior Lectureship in Crime Scene Science here at Teesside. I had so much freedom here, combined with the new expertise I was being exposed to, meant that my academic career really kicked off. So, that\u2019s Lecturer to Prof in 10 years. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n Obviously this has not been possible on my own. In the way that a Ballon D\u2019or<\/a>\u00a0win is only possible if you\u2019re in a super-strong team, so here I\u2019ve been incredibly fortunate to work with so many talented, smart and inspirational people who have taught me so many new things and new ways of thinking and approaching problems.<\/p>\n I\u2019m very much looking forward to the next 10 years of higher education adventures!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well this week has been a good week. On Monday I found out that the University, in all its wisdom, has conferred the title of ‘Professor\u2019 on me. It\u2019s such exciting and delightful news, and marks the high-point of my career so far. To be honest, I can hardly believe it since it\u2019s all happened relatively fast. I started my PhD in 2000 and polished it off in 2003. After working for Kenyon International for 9 months while they were still based in London, I…<\/span>Continue Reading “Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology”<\/span>