Michael Dawson

Michael Dawson is a Heritage Director at RPS (UK and Ireland). He is editor of the international journal ‘Historic Environment Policy and Practice’ and is panel lecturer with Oxford University Dept. of Continuing Education. He wrote his Dhil at Oxford on the preservation and display of mosaics. He has excavated in Britain, Bulgaria and Romania, publishing widely both in Britain and eastern Europe and has been instrumental in making the case for the Roşia Montană World Heritage nomination. He has published on Roman landscapes including ‘Prehistoric, Roman and Post Roman Landscapes of the Great Ouse Valley’ (CBA 2000). He is a former member of the National Trust’s Chedworth Research and Publication Board, has been Chairman of the Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), Chair of the Committee for Working Practices in Archaeology (CWPA) and is a council member of the International Cultural Heritage Practice Group (IPSIG).