Dr Robert Bewley

Initially employed at English Heritage as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments (1984), then by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in the Air Photography Unit, and Head of Aerial Survey until 2003 (by now in English Heritage), Head of Survey 2003-4, English Heritage’s Regional Director for the South-West 2004-2007; Director of Operations for the Heritage Lottery Fund (2007-2014). 

He trained as an archaeologist (at Manchester and Cambridge Universities) BA, MPhil and PhD. His research interests are all in periods of archaeology but in particular prehistory, landscape archaeology and the Middle East. He has worked in over a dozen European countries as well as Libya, Iraq, Iran and Jordan. 

Holder of a UK Private Pilot's Licence (Manchester and Salford University Air Squadron, RAF. 1976-1978), and a Jordanian Private Pilot’s Licence (Issued October 2001). Through his work in the heritage sector he has been recognised as an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Perth, Western Australia. 

Author (editor) of six books: Ancient Jordan from the Air. (with David Kennedy) 2004 

Prehistoric Settlements. Tempus. 2003 (and Batsford 1994) 

Aerial Archaeology – Developing Future Practice. Joint Editor with Włodek Raçzkowksi 

NATO Life Science Series vol. 337. 2002. 

Lincolnshire’s Archaeology from the Air. (ed.) RCHME/SLHA 1999. 

World Prehistory: studies in memory of Grahame Clark. (Joint editor with J.M. Coles and P..A. Mellars) British Academy. 1999. 

Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlement in the Solway Plain, Cumbria. Oxbow Monograph no. 36. 1994 Recent publication. 

Bewley R.H. et al. 2015. Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Introducing the EAMENA project. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative methods. Eds. Campana S. and Scopigno R. pp 919-932. Archeopress. London.