Alison Leonard

Experience

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  Gyeyang Elementary School, South Korea

  Sept 2007 - Sept 2008

  Teacher
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  Four Seasons Academy, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  Dec 2008 - Jun 2009

  Teacher
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  University of York

  Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

  Postgraduate Tutor and Researcher

  PhD candidate in Archaeology, seminar leader and lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, York, specialising in Early Medieval Britain and Landscape Archaeology. Taught Vikings (2nd years), Age of Sutton Hoo (3rd years), and Medieval Islam (2nd years); GIS, Photoshop and other practical courses.

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  University of Cambridge

  Oct 2015 - now

  Affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of History in British Social and Economic History; MPhil coordinator for Medieval Archaeology G12; lecturer at the Division of Archaeology for MPhil and undergraduate North Sea in the Early Middle Ages; supervisor. Research associate at Sidney Sussex College. Researcher affiliated with the Fitzwilliam Museum's Department of Coins and Medals and the Faculty of History. Studied imported coinage and movement of other 'foreign' artefacts in early medieval England with a focus on East Anglia. Lecturer for History (British Social and Economic History); Archaeology and Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic (North Sea in the Early Middle Ages); various MPhil seminars.

  • Affiliated Lecturer

    Oct 2016 - now

  • Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Early Medieval British History

    Oct 2015 - Sept 2016
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  University of York

  Oct 2016 - now

  Postdoctoral Research Associate: 'Cultures in Communication in the Long Viking Age'​

  Post-doc on 'Cultures in Communication in the Long Viking Age', working with metal-detected material from Denmark, The Netherlands, Flanders, and England to shed light on early medieval travel and connectivity across the North Sea.