Andrew McLean

Co-Director from inception of this new excavation project run by Rutgers University with the University of Tennessee and the British School at Rome, responsible for funding acquisition, staff interviewing, and planning.

Research contract to continue research in the Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Programme, expanding the R3NUrb project and consolidating results into publications and repositories.

Co-Director from inception of this collaborative excavation project, responsible for writing funding proposals, logistical planning, and leading the excavation team in the field.

Working on the R3NUrb project, reconstructing the Roman road network for understanding urban development, using computational modeling, remote sensing, and spatial analysis.

First year of the R3NUrb project undertaken at ICAC before moving to BSC.

Area supervisor for American-led excavations at the Roman city of Antiochia ad Cragum, leading the team excavating the Civic Basilica and coordinating across two trenches.

Student, supervisor, and then Assistant Director at excavations of a large Roman villa, involved in complex stratigraphic excavation, recording, surveying, and finds processing.

Managed large and complex spatial datasets for the City of Edinburgh Council, using advanced spatial analysis in ArcGIS to inform the active travel strategy.

GIS specialist managing large and complex spatial datasets for the City of Edinburgh Council, using advanced spatial analysis in ArcGIS to inform the active travel strategy.

Delivered Digital Humanities training workshops for postgraduate students and research staff, including data analysis, management, tidying, visualisation, statistics, and geospatial data in R, Python, SQL, and QGIS.

Led a data carpentry session to instruct attendees on the use of regular expressions in coding.

Delivered undergraduate tutorials covering theoretical and practical archaeology and ancient history, working with course organisers and assessing student work.

Modelled visibility and conducted significance testing for Scotland's Rock Art Project using viewshed analyses and Monte Carlo simulations.

Digitised the database for the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project, cataloguing and inputting years of excavation data into a newly created digital database.

Digitised the database for the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project, cataloguing and inputting years of excavation data into a newly created digital database.

Conducted data collection for the Covid Governance and Data Protection project, gathering data from multiple language sources and locations.

Excavating and recording a variety of features and undertaking independent watching briefs at a number of sites across Scotland.

Excavating and recording a variety of features, including waterlogged features, with training in specialist sample recovery and on-site watching briefs.

Excavating and recording a large Iron Age/Roman site with diverse features and finds, including roundhouses, burials, ceramics, bone, and metal objects.

Six-week contract with a commercial archaeology company excavating and recording medieval field boundaries and kilns.

Supervisor at the excavation of the Roman town of Aeclanum, involved in complex stratigraphic excavation and recording, surveying, and finds processing.

Student and then supervisor at excavations of a Roman river port/manufacturing district and associated villa, involved in complex stratigraphic excavation and finds processing.

PhD in Classics with a thesis titled 'A Connecting Sea? Modelling Economic Cohesion in the Roman Adriatic'.

PhD in Classics with a thesis titled 'A Connecting Sea? Modelling Economic Cohesion in the Roman Adriatic'.

Grade: Distinction

MScR in Classics with Distinction, thesis on ancient economic specialisation in central Italy.

Grade: Distinction

MScR in Classics with Distinction, thesis on ancient economic specialisation in central Italy.

Grade: First Class

MA (Hons) in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology with First Class honours, thesis on lowland brochs in Scotland.

Grade: First Class

MA (Hons) in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology with First Class honours, thesis on lowland brochs in Scotland.