Graeme Barker

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Previous appointments

2003–2004 Pro–Vice–Chancellor (Resources), University of Leicester
2000–2003 (Founding) Graduate Dean, University of Leicester Graduate School
1988–2000 Head of School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester
1984–1988 Director, British School at Rome
1972–1984 Lecturer and from 1981 Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Sheffield

1973: PhD, University of Cambridge
1969–1971: Rome Scholar in Classical Studies, British School at Rome
1965–1969: St John's College, Cambridge (Henry Arthur Thomas Open Scholarship in Classics); Part One Classical Tripos 1967, Part II Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos (Archaeology) 1969

2005 Dan David Prize
2000 James R. Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America (for Farming the Desert: the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey)
1999 Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
1999 Fellow of the British Academy
1997 Corresponding Member, Unione Internazionale di Preistoria e Protostoria
1995 Leverhulme Research Fellowship
1979 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Arts and Humanities Research Council: member Council; member, Audit Committee 2004–2006; Chair, Decision Making Structures Review group, 2007; Chair, Knowledge and Evaluation Committee, 2006– ; member Arts and Humanities Data Service review group 2006–2007); member Postgraduate Training review group 2006–2007
BASIS, the British Academy's Board for Academy Sponsored Schools and Institutes, member 1996–2005, Chair 2004–5
Cambridge University Press `Manuals in Archaeology' series, senior editor
Member, editorial boards of European Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, The Holocene
NERC ORADS Committee, member (2004– )
Prehistoric Society, President 2001–5
QAA Archaeology Benchmarking Panel, Chair 1999–2000
RAE Archaeology Panel 2001, member
RAE Archaeology Sub–panel 2008, Chair
SCUPHA, the Standing Committee of Professors and Heads of Archaeology, Chair 1997–2000