CONTRIBUTOR:

Michael Corbishley

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Senior Lecturer

DEPARTMENT:

Institute of Archaeology

INSTITUTION:

University College London

BIOGRAPHY:

Mike Corbishley is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London Institute of Archaeology, and has been teaching heritage education there since 2003. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Heritage Conservancy in Eleusis, Greece (University of Kent/Athens University of Economics and Business) since 2012. Throughout his career he has specialised in introducing archaeology to teachers and young people. In 1972 he helped found and run the Young Archaeologists’ Club. He has variously worked as a school teacher, an adult education lecturer and an archaeologist. He was appointed the first Education Officer for the Council for British Archaeology in 1977 and in 1984 he joined English Heritage, later becoming their Head of Education. He has written a number of books for children and teachers about archaeology, the heritage and the ancient world, as well as publishing excavation reports and research papers. In 2011 his book Pinning Down the Past: Archaeology, Heritage and Education Today was published in the ‘Heritage Matters’ series by the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University. He has presented papers to conferences and contributed to edited volumes of research, including Presenting the Romans (‘Heritage Matters’ series, Newcastle University 2013), Public Participation in Archaeology (‘Heritage Matters’ 2014) and Darwin-Inspired Learning (Sense Publishers 2015).