Nick is Director of ArchaeoScape, specialises in pollen and plant macrofossil analyses, and is Projects Manager for Geoarchaeology. He graduated from University College London, Institute of Archaeology, in 1987 with a BSc (Hons) in Archaeology. In 1990, following two years of employment with English Heritage as a pollen analyst, Nick completed the MSc in Bioarchaeology (Archaeobotany) at UCL, and specialised in waterlogged plant macrofossils. He completed his PhD in Geography in 1999 at Royal Holloway (supervised by Prof John Lowe and Roberto Maggi) on 'Vegetation History and Human Activity in the Ligurian Apennines, Italy'. Nick was then awarded a postdoctoral research assistantship in tephrochronology in 2001 at Royal Holloway on a Leverhulme Trust funded project (with Prof John Lowe), before gaining an academic related post in the Department of Geography in 2002. In 2003, Nick was appointed as Lecturer in Physical Geography and Environmental Archaeology.

Tel: 07725 529783 (Mobile); E-mail: n.branch@rhul.ac.uk

Rob is an Environmental Archaeologist, specialising in pollen and plant macrofossil analyses, and is also Projects Manager for Bioarchaeology and Geochronology. He graduated from Royal Holloway in 2003 with a BSc (Hons) in Geography and Geology, and has recently submitted his PhD thesis on 'Middle Holocene Environmental Changes and the History of Taxus (Yew) Woodland in the Lower Thames Valley'. The PhD research was sponsored by ArchaeoScape and CgMs Consulting, and supervised by Dr Nick Branch, Prof Scott Elias, Duncan Hawkins (CgMs Consulting) and Dr Jane Sidell (English Heritage).

Tel: 07734 530438 (Mobile); E-mail: c.r.batchelor@rhul.ac.uk

Kevin is an Environmental Archaeology Techncian, and is also the Archive Manager. He graduated from Birkbeck College in 2007 with a BA (Hons) in History and Archaeology, and is about to start a part-time MA at Reading University in Medieval Archaeology. 

Gem is Administrative Manager for ArchaeoScape projects and an Environmental Archaeologist, specialising in Geoarchaeology. She graduated from Royal Holloway in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) in Geography, and completed the MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway in 2002.

E-mail: g.e.swindle@rhul.ac.uk