Phil Gould
Philip Gould
p.gould.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: A Palaeoenvironmental investigation of the southern Scottish Highlands to understand past landscapes and future management programmes.
Research Summary
My Mres is on land-use and agricultural practice in upland landscapes in the late-Medieval and early-modern period, with a primary focus on environmental records and these records interact with the archaeological and historic records from the same geographies and periods. I am particularly interested in peatland and the narratives and histories that can be told about and from peatlands. I am wanting to explore tension between disciplines within archaeology and how to integrate palaeoenvironmental work, archaeological study, as well as the conservation and rewetting of peatland.
Supervisors
Conferences
Gould, P., Whitehouse, N., Alexander, D., 2024, ‘Plants, People, and Peatland: Change and adaptation in an upland peatland during the ‘Little Ice Age’’, 44th Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, Oxford University
Gould, P., 2024, ‘Stories from the Peat: Narrative and story from palaeoenvironmental records’, Stirling Maxwell Centre Round Table, University of Glasgow
Additional Information
Education:
2020-2024- MA degree with First Class honours: Archaeology, University of Glasglow
Professional experience:
AOC Archaeology Group, Environmental department May-July, 2023 and July 2024
Field work Experience:
Tarmachan Peat Restoration Project, Ben Lawers, Killin, October 2023
After the Garden Festival Project, Glasgow, June 2024
Govan Old Church: Dig Where You Stand, August 29th-September 22nd 2024