About

Oscar Aldred studied for his PhD at the University of Iceland. He has held academic positions at the University of Iceland and Newcastle University. He was the Aerial and Remote Sensing Mapping Manager at Historic Environment Scotland, and previous to this he worked for the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland, as well as Somerset County Council. He is currently working in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge for the Cambridge Archaeological Unit where is involved in writing and research, alongside landscape-scale developer-led excavations. He is a Member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and a Member of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, two leading research centres in the University of Cambridge. He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Archaeology (MCIfA), a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London (FSA), and a Member of the UKRI AHRC Peer Review College. He is widely published, including the book 'The Archaeology of Movement' published by Routledge.