Dr. Theresa Nelson Email & Phone Number

Sheffield, Gb

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

I am providing proffessional support to Professor Jillian Anable and a wider team of researchers across multiple projects: CREDS (Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions, UKERC (UK Energy Research Centre), ELEVATE (Innovative Light ELEctric Vehicles for Active and Digital TravEl), TRANSAS (COVID-19 Transport, Travel and Social Adaptation Study, and CARS (Connecting Administration Vehicle Data for Research on Sustainable Transport). My role involves communicating research findings to a wide range of stakeholders, collaborating with academics to deisgn and deliver online/in-person engagement events, mangaging project budgets and milestone, preparing progress reports related to impact and EDI, and providing administrative and logistical support to the projects. For ELEVATE, I help with social media platforms and deliver online engagement.

Creswell, England, United Kingdom

I am serving the role of Research Assistant for the project run by Dr. Kevin Kuykendall: Public perceptions about archaeology and heritage: co-production at Creswell Crags. This project focuses on exploring public perspectives on archaeology and the archaeological site of Creswell Crags, given the loss of funding and support of archaeology and other humanities disciplines throughout the United Kingdom, and the challenges that the site of Creswell Crags has experienced since 2020 (e.g., the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis). This project tests a model of community-engaged archaeological fieldwork to understand how to mobilise public perceptions of the role of archaeology for long-term strategic audience development and programming at Creswell Crags. My role in the project includes leading and implementing the knowledge exchange, co-production, and public engagement components of the project. This includes working with Creswell staff to recruit a public focus group for participatory excavations who will gain hands-on experience and training in archaeological fieldwork.

Barnsley, England, United Kingdom

This programme trains PhD researchers to design and deliver a university-level course to pupils from low-participation schools to help pupils develop the confidence and proficiency to secure a place in a university. The first-year undergraduate level course I developed for my students focused on assessing the "Neolithic Revolution". I developed my own course materials, including presentations, detailed course booklets, practical activities, lesson plans, and essay and homework assignments. Activity design was geared toward promoting higher-level learning abilities, evaluation, analysis, and synthesis of ideas, the topic of which surrounded what archaeology is as a discipline of science and the humanities. Students also critically analyse archaeological methods and data and compare and contrast different lifeways whilst learning about agriculture in the past. Their final essay assignment asks them to scrutinise the changes that occurred with the adoption of agriculture using archaeological evidence and interpretations to support their claims. I provide ongoing support for learning as they work through drafts of their essays whilst regularly delivering formative feedback on which to improve. Overall, my course seeks to help students challenge existing ideas about our distant past, especially the opinion that there is little to learn from our past and that past people had little to no impact on our lives today.

United Kingdom

I was a part time heritage facilitator under direct management of the Learning Officers and Education Team to help develop and deliver the learning programme. I helped to deliver engaging and inspiring formal and informal learning sessions for Creswell Heritage Trust, and the occasional facilitation of special events, including: public & private tours, school group visits, birthday parties, Life on the Edge activity days, costumed interpretation sessions, and outreach sessions.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

This was a paid position working on the questionnaire consultation aspect of the University of Sheffield's sustainability strategy. To ensure a consistent level of data across the different SDG’s, I helped coordinate the questionnaire writing.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

I was the Leading Scholar for the Sustainability Strategy Audit for The University of Sheffield, which informed the University’s first Sustainability Strategy. We identified metrics and areas of focus relevant to the university using the UN Sustainability Development Goal Global Indicator Framework. Our report provides a broad picture of where the University is successful and where it can do more, and serves as roadmap for more targeted exploration of the University’s sustainability policies and practices.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

My public outreach work with the University of Sheffield Department of Archaeology's student-run outreach programme, Archaeology in the City, allowed for me to collaborate with other researchers, promote departmental research activities, and identify and obtaining external funding. In 2018 I organised, advertised and acquired funding for our annual event, The Woodland Heritage Festival. This festival held over 700 attendees from the public and was fully funded by the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures Fellowship and the Arts and Humanities Post-Graduate Research Funding. This festival successfully combined aspects of heritage, archaeology, science, and sustainability for members of the public whilst displaying a range of departmental activities. We held a host of interdisciplinary, interactive activities, including a historical hospital, The Energy of an Iron Smelt, poetry workshop, Q-pit tour, a Neolithic village, immersive theatrical performances, children's activities, woodcrafters, and museum demonstrations and displays from Sheffield Museums and Doncaster Museum. Furthermore, the event was advertised on public radio, in newspapers, across all social media platforms, throughout departmental newsletters and distributed fliers in local coffee shops and cafes. A filmmaker also documented the festival, and the resulting short film is widely accessible on the department's Twitter page and the Archaeology in the City Facebook page. The heritage festival successfully demonstrated the talents and creativity of students, staff, heritage practitioners, and craftspeople from Sheffield and surrounding areas

Greater Pittsburgh Area

For a class titled, 'Zooarchaeology', taught by Dr. Bryan Hanks, I served as head TA for the fall semester of 2016. I assisted the professor with the 20 person undergraduate and graduate archaeology class. This included teaching a lecture, preparing examing holding lab hours (8-10 hours per week), and assisting students with course materials including the identification of faunal remains, quantification of faunal remains, and, I assisted students with their independent faunal assemblage projects

Pittsburgh

For a class titled, 'The Archaeologist Looks at Death', taught by Dr. Marc Bermann, I served as head TA for the spring semester of 2016. I assisted the professor and two other teaching assistants with the 300-person undergraduate archaeology class, and four 25-30 person recitations, held office hours, assisted students with course materials including writing assignments, recitation assignments (quizzes, in-class assignments), and final papers.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

With the guidance of a faculty advisor, Dr. Bryan Hanks, I taught “Zooarchaeology,” for undergraduate students. This included teaching lectures, preparing exams, holding lab hours, assisting students with course materials including the identification of faunal remains, quantification of faunal remains, and, I assisted students with their independent faunal assemblage projects, final faunal reports and presentations, and their independent research papers.

Assisted professor with the archaeology lab course “Advanced Lab Analysis” for undergraduate students; held lab hours assisted students with course materials including the identification of faunal, lithic, and ceramic material, assisted students with article summaries, final reports and graphs, and final presentations for analysis.

Assisted professor with the archaeology lab course “Archaeology Lab Practicum” for undergraduate students; assisted students with course materials, data analysis, held lab hours and assisted students with ceramic analysis, assisted students with final reports and graphs for analysis.

Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

Assistant Group Supervisor, implement activities of daily learning

Assisted professor with materials and lectures in the Geology Lab Course, “Geology Laboratory,” a hands on course focusing on physical geology composed of undergraduate students; held lab hours and assisted students with course materials including identification and interpretation of minerals and rocks and help with the completion of weekly lab assignments

Southern Urals, Russia

I participated in a collaborative international research project with the University of Pittsburgh and the University Sheffield. This project focused on the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age Settlement, Ust'ye. The research of this project focused on metallurgical tradition, subsistence practices, and the economic development of Sintashta Settlements. I had a supervisory zooarchaeological role in the excavation, which included excavating, recording, collecting, and organizing artifacts, surveying, and analysis of faunal remains. I also received funding from the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Comparative Archaeology, the Corrado Fund for Undergraduate Research.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I worked under Dr. Sandra Olsen, Collection's Manager Deborah G. Harding, and Curatorial Assistant Amy Covell at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's annex. I worked on various tasks pertaining to museum needs.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Attend rallies, door to door campaigning, making phone calls

Khanuy Valley, Mongolia

A project with the University of Pittsburgh and the National Museum of Mongolia led by PhD candidate Jean-Luc Houle. We were researching seasonal habitation sites of pastoralists of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Work included excavating, surveying, ethnoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, lab work, and data entry.

Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

Worked canvassing neighborhoods and worked the telephone banks for Hilary Clinton's Primary Campaign

Butler County, Pennsylvania

Assisted with telephone banks and canvassing for Congressman Altmire's campaign

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Archaeology

I completed a Ph. D. in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield with the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures. My work sought.

Master’S Degree, Archaeology, 3.649

Enrolled in and took the following courses: Archaeology of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia, Core Course in Archaeology, Core Course.

Ba, Bs, Anthropology (Archaeology), Geology, Chemistry Minor, Qpa: 3.197, Anthropology Gpa: 3.669, Geology Gpa: 3.250

Activities and Societies: Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society, Sigma Gamma Epsilon Earth Sciences Honors Society, Lambda Sigma Honors.