Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw

Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw is trained in Archaeology (especially Aegean Bronze Age - Hellenistic Greek), Classics and History (Ancient and Modern), History of Western Art, and Education. She has additional professional experience as an interdisciplinary researcher, educator and research facilitator. She researches, publishes and presents extensively on heritage, archaeology (particularly the Aegean Bronze Age), museology, analogue and digital experimentation, the impact and uses of heritage (incl. reception), and international education. She has also lectured at and designed learning materials for 17 institutions, mostly in the UK, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Anna is currently primarily a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology at UCL. She also conducts her Aegean Bronze Age research in collaboration with other relevant archaeological teams. She teaches Archaeology at the Continuing Education departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. She is an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Peer Review College Member and a Permanent Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Germany.