About Rachael Kiddey
Rachael Kiddey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship researcher based at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her current project is called ‘Migrant Materialities’, which focuses on the role that material culture – objects and visual culture – plays in experiences of forced displacement in Europe. Before this, Rachael was postdoctoral researcher on a joint AHRC/ESRC funded project, with the Refugee Studies Centre at the Oxford Department of International Development, called ‘Architectures of Displacement: The Experiences and Consequences of Emergency Shelter’. Rachael was previously a postgraduate student at the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, where she completed her doctoral study in 2014. Rachael is a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) and of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). Prior to returning to academia, aged 32, Rachael worked as a documentary radio producer for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.
