Helen Goodchild is Distance Learning Manager for the School of Historical Studies, but is also an active archaeological researcher with a specialism in GIS applications. Her particular area of interest is the application of computing techniques to ancient landscapes. She completed her doctoral research in 2007 investigating the modelling of Roman agricultural landscapes in the Tiber Valley of Central Italy, as part of the wider collaborative Tiber Valley Project run by the British School at Rome. She has also carried similar landscape-based research for Birmingham University’s Wroxeter Hinterland Project as well as for the ESF funded Medieval Logistics: Movement, Demography and Warfare project.

Helen is Project Geomatics manager for the Cyrene Archaeological Project, which has run since 2006 mapping the UNESCO World Heritage site of Cyrene in Libya. Fieldwork for this involves both traditional surveying methods and 3-Dimensional scanning in order to produce a virtual reconstruction of the city and its setting.

Helen is also on the standing committee for the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference.

Dr Helen Goodchild

GIS and Internet Mapping

EMAIL: helengoodchild@gmail.com

TELEPHONE: +44 (0)121 414  5331