Head of programme
Associate Professor Anne Ford
Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Neolithic/Bronze Age China; trade; lithic technology; sourcing studies; modern human migrations and behaviour; settlement patterns/colonisation.
Postgraduate Co-ordinator
Master of Archaeological Practice Programme Co-ordinator
Academic staff
Professor Ian Barber
New Zealand archaeology; agricultural innovation; cultural change and contact; archaeological resource management and politics; anthropology of religion.
Associate Professor Karen Greig
Archaeology of Oceania; Archaeozoology, including biomolecular archaeozoology; New Zealand archaeology; cultural heritage; archaeology and heritage practice.
Dr Isaac (Zac) McIvor
Pacific archaeology, focussing on Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu (New Zealand); landscape archaeology and remote sensing; Indigenous and community archaeologies; archaeology and kōrero tuku iho (oral traditions); applied archaeology and heritage management.
Māori Students Support Officer (Kaiāwhina Māori)
Dr Charles J. T. Radclyffe
Archaeology of Oceania's deep past, with special focus on Solomon Islands and wider Melanesia; archaeological site survey and community engagement; material culture studies, in particular pottery analysis; indigeneity, 'Pasifika' and navigating academic spaces; anthropology of identity, land and wellbeing.
Pacific Island Students Support Officer
Associate Professor Tim Thomas
Archaeology and historical anthropology of Oceania; Material culture of the Pacific region; Socio-cultural landscapes; The archaeology of colonisation.
Professor Richard Walter
Prehistory and archaeology of Oceania with a special interest in Melanesia and Polynesia; material culture analysis; history of archaeological method and theory; ethnoarchaeology; faunal analysis. SPAR.
Teaching Fellow
Dr Natasha Phillips
Natasha's work in research and teaching integrates interdisciplinary approaches with a keen interest in indigenous, community and heritage perspectives.
Southern Pacific Archaeological Research (SPAR)
Richard Walter
Karen Greig
Co-Director
Monica Tromp
Co-Director; Senior Laboratory Analyst
Go to the Southern Pacific Archaeological Research website.
Emeritus Professors
Emeritus Professor Charles Higham
The prehistory of mainland Southeast Asia; the implications of archaeogenetics and historic linguistics.
Emeritus Professor Glenn Summerhayes
Pacific archaeology, in particular Melanesia; the archaeology of trade and exchange; the development of social complexity.
Honorary members of the programme
Dr Dimitri Anson
Honorary Fellow
Dr Amber Aranui
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Dylan Gaffney
Honorary Lecturer
Dr Gerard O'Regan
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Postgraduate students
Read about our current Postgraduate students here
Support staff
Rickie Kewene
Administrator
Phil Latham
Laboratory Manager, Archaeology
Heather Sadler
Laboratory Manager, IT and Research
Vanessa Clark
Laboratory Technician: Archaeological Collections