Geoffrey Bailey#

• 2017-present, Professor of Archaeology, Flinders University, Australia
• 2004-present, Anniversary Professor of Archaeology, University of York (2016 Emeritus)
• 1996-2004 Professor of Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, HoD 1997–2001
• 1990-1996 Senior Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge (Elected Fellow 1989, Life Member 1996)
• 1981-1996 University Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• 1976-1981 University Assistant Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• 1974-1976 British Academy Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• 1971 Research student, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia
• 1970-1975 Research student, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

• Shell mounds
• Submerged landscapes and archaeology
• Quaternary landscape and environmental history
• Coastal prehistory
• Archaeology of time
• Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology
• Palaeoeconomy

• 2024-Partner Investigator, ERC Horizon Europe Synergy Grant 101119164 SUBNORDICA
• 2020-Partner Investigator, ERC Horizon 2020 Synergy Grant 856488 SEACHANGE
• 2020 The European Archaeological Heritage Prize of the European Association of Archaeologists: Honorary mention in the Institutional Category for the SPLASHCOS network
• 2018 Europa Prize and Lecture, Prehistoric Society, York, UK
• 2017-2020 Partner Investigator, ARC (Australian Research Council), Discovery project DP170100812 The Deep History of Sea Country: Climate, Sea Level and Culture
• 2017 King AbdulAziz Prize of the Dara Foundation, for a book on Arabian history in a non-Arabic language, Saudi Arabia
• 2017 Elected Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
• 2017 Norman Tindale Memorial Lecture, South Australian Museum, Australia
• 2016 Visiting Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
• 2016 Sir John Hood Fellow, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 2015 President, UISPP Commission on ‘Coastal Prehistory and Submerged Landscapes’ (Union International des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques)
• 2014 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)
• 2012 Fu Ssu-nien Memorial Lectures, Institute of History and Philology, Academica Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China
• 2011-2016 Principal Investigator, European Research Council (ERC) FP7 Advanced Grant 269586 DISPERSE
• 2010 Elected Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
• 2009-2013 Chairman, European Union Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Trans-domain Action TD0902 SPLASHCOS
• 2007 Antiquity Prize for best paper published in 2006 (Tectonics and Human Evolution)
• 2006 British Archaeology Awards in the Channel 4 IT category (for Northumberland rock art website)
• 2001–2004 Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• 1992–1993 Sir Robert Menzies Trust Australian Bicentennial Fellow, ANU, Canberra, Australia
• 1987 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA)
• 1986 Elected Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists (MIFA)
• 1971 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Award for Overseas Research, Sydney University, Australia

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