Amara Thornton is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. She holds a BA in History, an MA in Museum Studies and a PhD in Archaeology (2011) for a thesis exploring the social history of British archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East between 1870 and 1939.  She has researched in archaeological archives in the both the UK and Israel.  Her postdoctoral project analyses the history of popular publishing in archaeology through extant publishers and archaeologists' archives. She also coordinates the Institute's History of Archaeology Network.

Michael McCluskey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in UCL's Department of English. His postdoctoral research project 'Amateur Film and Advocacy Networks in Interwar Britain' looks at the production of amateur films/home movies amid the social, spatial, and technological shifts of the 1920s and 30s. He received his PhD from UCL in 2011 for his thesis on the writer, filmmaker, and co-founder of Mass-Observation: Humphrey Jennings. From 2012-2013 he was Research Fellow at Harvard University working with metaLAB (at) Harvard, a digital humanities research centre.

Rachael Sparks is Senior Lecturer/Keeper of Collections at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.  A specialist in the archaeology of the Southern Levant, she has published extensively on the work of Flinders Petrie in British Mandate Palestine.  She is currently heading the Petrie Palestine Online Project, which uses field records, documentary archives and object date to create a resource that will digitally reunite Petrie's artefacts from disparate museum collections, and place them firmly back in their archaeological settings.

Jenny Bunn worked as an archivist for many years in institutions ranging from The Royal Bank of Scotland to The National Archives.  She returned to UCL (where she had initially trained) in 2007 to undertake a PhD in Archive Studies. She now teaches on the archives and records management programme within the Department of Information Studies. Jenny is currently on the Editorial Team for Archives and Records; the Journal of the Archives and Records Association (ARA), sits on the committee of ARA’s Section for Archives and Technology and is an active member of both the Cardigan Continuum, reading group and the Descriptive Standards Roundtable.

Stuart Laidlaw has been the photographer at the UCL Institute of Archaeology for the last 15 years.  Before joining the Institute he was archaeological photographer Peter Dorrell's assistant. Stuart has worked in many European countries and taught photography courses around the world. He has worked closely with the National Trust, the Museum of London and the British Library.  He is currently doing research on the uses of reflectance transformation imaging and teaches a number of courses to undergraduates and postgraduates at the Institute. He has published a number of books with Georgina Herrmann on the ivories of Nimrud, and is currently working on the final (8th) volume of the series.

Ian Carroll is Collections Manager for the UCL Institute of Archaeology, teaching on collections care and management, museum and site interpretation, conservation and curatorship. He has also helped create exhibitions for the Institute of Archaeology and UCL Museums and Collections. 

Ken Walton has been the Audiovisual/Photography Technician at the UCL Institute of Archaeology since 2003.  He has always been interested in photography and filmmaking. After taking the course in Film production at the London Film School (LFS) he worked in the LFS Editing Department. Ken holds a BA (Hons.) from the Institute in the Archaeology of Western Asia. He took the IoA Photography course unit during his studies, and afterwards began helping in the IoA's Photography Department. He holds a City and Guilds 747 Professional Photography. Ken also undertakes freelance photography work with, amongst others, the Institute of Classical Studies, the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries of London.  He recently worked on a Heritage Lottery Funded project to save a large glass negative archive owned by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.

Andrew Flinn is Reader in Archival Studies and the Director of the MA programme in Archives and Records Management in the UCL Department of Information Studies.  He has worked on oral histories and communities projects in archaeology, and has particular interests in widening access to heritage, in public history, and in the impact of heritage and archives on identity.