Dr Rebecca Jones

Visiting Professor

Dr Rebecca H Jones is a cultural heritage specialist and archaeologist with expertise in World Heritage and Roman frontiers. In recent years, she has specialized in seeking societal benefit from knowledge, specifically heritage expertise, as well as Roman frontier studies and their history, and looking at the impacts of climate change on World Heritage. 

She is co-Chair of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies and the Bratislava Group (Scientific Advisory Committee to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage property). 

She has recently led a successful partnership project with James Cook University (Queensland), funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, to look at the climate vulnerability of Scotland’s World Heritage properties.
 

Areas of interest

• Historic Environment, World Heritage, Heritage Policy and Strategy, Climate Heritage, Roman Frontiers, Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, History of Heritage

Qualifications

1992 BA (Joint Hons) Newcastle University – Ancient History & Archaeology

2006 PhD Glasgow University – Archaeology (Roman Camps in Scotland)

Background

Dr Jones is currently working for the University of Edinburgh in Alumni Relations. She previously worked at Historic Environment Scotland as Head of Archaeology, Heritage Recording and World Heritage.
She is a corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and Editorial Board Member of the Antiquity of South-eastern Europe Research Centre at the University of Warsaw.

Dr Jones was a former Editorial Board member of the Journal of the Historic Environment: Policy & Practice. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists; Member of ICOMOS; and a Fellow of the Societies of Antiquaries of Scotland, London and Newcastle upon Tyne