Rachael Kiddey

Rachael Kiddey is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford where she works on a project called Architectures of Displacement: The Experiences and Consequences of Emergency Shelter. She received her PhD from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York in 2014. Her doctoral research involved developing methodologies for working archaeologically with homeless people; documenting how heritage can function in socially useful and transformative...See more

Rachael Kiddey is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford where she works on a project called Architectures of Displacement: The Experiences and Consequences of Emergency Shelter. She received her PhD from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York in 2014. Her doctoral research involved developing methodologies for working archaeologically with homeless people; documenting how heritage can function in socially useful and transformative ways. This research was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Award for Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2012 and was shortlisted for the Society for Historical Archaeology Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award 2016. Rachael also works as Editorial Assistant at the Independent Social Research Foundation where, among her responsibilities, is the production of the interdisciplinary Bulletin. See less