Lecture Speaker: Dr Tom Booth
Dr Tom Booth
Dr Tom Booth is a Senior Research Scientist in the Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute. He has a PhD in Archaeology and has spent the last 7 years working on various projects investigating the genetics of people who inhabited Britain over the last 10,000 years, exploring human evolution, migration, ancestry change and genetic relationships in the funerary record. He is currently working on a project at the Crick looking to create an ancient UK Biobank of whole genome data from at least 1000 individuals from Britain to continue to investigate genetic variation in the past, but also understand trajectories of medically-relevant genetic variants through time.
Lecture Speaker: Dr Mike Hodder
Dr Mike Hodder
Dr Mike Hodder is a very long-standing member of the Society. He has been involved in the investigation, protection, management and display of archaeological sites of all periods in the West Midlands for the whole of his career. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, he has been Sandwell Borough Archaeologist and Birmingham City Archaeologist and he is an Honorary Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.
Mike is currently undertaking fieldwork in Sutton Park, a medieval deer park, which he has been researching for many years and was the subject of one of his earliest publications, in the Society’s Transactions for 1980. He has recently contributed to the forthcoming “Pevsner” Buildings of England volume on Birmingham and the Black Country, and he has been involved with the archaeology of historic churches for many years as a member of the Birmingham Diocesan Advisory Committee.
