Prof Tom Dawson

Professorial Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 7172

Email

tcd@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

By appointment

 

Research areas

Tom Dawson is an archaeologist with an interest in  coastal heritage, community archaeology and heritage management. He was a Commissioner sitting on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland until its dissolution in October 2015; and a Vice President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland until 2018.

In addition to teaching modules in archaeology, Tom brings his knowledge and interest filmmaking (from both sides of the camera) to two public history modules. In these, final year students learn how to film and edit footage, and make a documentary in lieu of writing a dissertation. 

PhD supervision

• Amanda Woods
• Nicole Grinnan

Selected publications

• Heritage destruction, natural disasters, and the environment: geological disasters

  Dawson, T., 10 Aug 2023, Routledge handbook of heritage destruction. Zarandona, J. A. G., Cunliffe, E. & Saldin, M. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 129-137 9 p. (Routledge handbooks on museums, galleries and heritage).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Heritage destruction, natural disasters, and the environment: atmospheric disasters

  Dawson, T., 10 Aug 2023, The Routledge handbook of heritage destruction. Zarandona, J. A. G., Cunliffe, E. & Saldin, M. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 138-146 9 p. (Routledge handbooks on museums, galleries and heritage).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Of time and tide: the complex impacts of climate change on coastal and underwater cultural heritage

  Gregory, D., Dawson, T., Elkin, D., Van Tilburg, H., Underwood, C., Richards, V., Viduka, A., Westley, K., Wright, J. & Hollesen, J., 1 Dec 2022, In: Antiquity. 96, 390, p. 1396 - 1411 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Proposed policy guidelines for managing heritage at risk based on public engagement and communicating climate change

  Dawson, T., Hambly, J., Lees, W. & Miller, S., 2021, In: The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice. 12, 3-4, p. 375-394 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Coastal heritage, global climate change, public engagement, and citizen science

  Dawson, T., Hambly, J., Kelley, A., Lees, W. & Miller, S., 14 Apr 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 15, p. 8280-8286

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic

  Hollesen, J., Callanan, M., Dawson, T., Fenger-Nielsen, R., Friesen, T. M., Jensen, A. M., Markham, A., Martens, V. V., Pitulko, V. V. & Rockman, M., 27 Jun 2018, In: Antiquity. 92, 363, p. 573-586 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The Newshot Island boat graveyard: an assemblage of 19th century vessels on the Clyde

  Graham, E., Dawson, T., Liscoe, S. & with contributions by Peter Dick, 13 Dec 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Early View

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A central role for communities: Climate change and coastal heritage management in Scotland

  Dawson, T. C., Hambly, J. & Graham Allsop, E. L., 28 Oct 2017, Public Archaeology and Climate Change. Oxford: Oxbow, p. 23-33 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Chronostratigraphy of an eroding complex Atlantic Round House, Baile Sear, Scotland

  Kinnaird, T., Dawson, T., Sanderson, D., Hamilton, D., Cresswell, A. & Rennell, R., 7 Nov 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology. Latest Articles, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Learning from loss: eroding coastal heritage in Scotland

  Graham Allsop, E. L., Dawson, T. C. & Hambly, J., 9 Nov 2017, In: Humanities. 6, 4, 19 p., 87.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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