Dr Miles Russell

Senior Lecturer in Archaeology

Areas of expertise

  • 3D printing
  • 3D printing and intellectual property
  • amusements
  • ancient telescope
  • animation
  • anthropology
  • assistive technology
  • BAFTA Albert in Education partnership
  • biological signs of stress
  • blockchain
  • blockchain and intellectual property
  • Booker prize
  • brain injury
  • British Archaeology
  • celestial alignment
  • climate change
  • coastal erosion
  • comics
  • cortisol
  • cultural analysis
  • dementia care
  • dementia therapy
  • Diffusion tensor Imaging
  • digital business
  • disabled technology
  • drug analysis
  • e-readers
  • e-reading
  • entrepreneurship
  • fairgrounds
  • female comics
  • feminist theory
  • financial scams
  • flooding
  • forensic analysis
  • fruits and vegetables
  • gender studies
  • geophysics
  • girls and comics
  • gothic comics
  • governance of bodies
  • Greek Archaeology
  • healthy eating
  • hidden voices
  • influencers
  • Innovation
  • Kindle
  • learning innovation
  • legal high
  • Lesion analysis
  • magazines in the digital age
  • marine biologist
  • marine climate change
  • national centre for computer animation
  • NCCA
  • never let me go
  • NPS
  • omega-3 oils and depression
  • organisational image and legitimacy
  • Oscars
  • overfishing
  • parody
  • parody and intellectual property
  • participatory research
  • postnatal depression
  • postnatal depression in men
  • protein intake in older adults
  • Pyramids
  • reading on kindle
  • remains of the day
  • reminiscence therapy
  • resorts
  • robot carers
  • Russian Archaeology
  • scamming
  • seaside
  • social identity
  • social media influencers
  • social work
  • sociology
  • solar panels
  • sport consumption
  • sport fandom
  • sports mega-events
  • stop and search
  • stress diagnosis
  • stress hormone
  • sugar reduction
  • sweet taste
  • tank corrosion
  • tank protection
  • technology in learning
  • technology in teaching
  • urban spaces
  • VFX
  • Vlochos

Miles has worked on archaeological projects across the UK, as well as in Germany, Sicily and Russia. He
is co-director of BU’s Archaeological Field School and also the Durotriges Project and REGNVM, both
investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period in Southern Britain. He an expert in
all things Roman and Iron Age as well as being Director of the Imperial Image Database, investigating
Roman portraiture, and the Chalkland Prehistoric Project, examining the Neolithic monumental
architecture of the South Downs.

Miles is a regular contributor to television and radio, including recent appearances on Time Team,
Timewatch, Witness, The One Show and Digging for Britain. In addition, he writes for History Revealed
magazine, predominantly on Roman culture and society.

Miles is co-director of the Durotriges Big Dig, which runs annually in Winterbourne Kingston and has previously uncovered Roman burials and an Iron Age village, speaking to BBC and ITV television.