Job description

Tony Brown' PhD combined floodplain geomorphology with palaeoecology and identified the major anthropogenic effect on the largest river in the UK, The Severn in his PhD (Southampton, UK). After this he was appointed lecturer in soils at the University of Leicester in 1983 and soon after a joint lecturer in Geography and Archaeology. In 1997 he moved to the University of Exeter where he developed interests in wetland environmental archaeology and ran the Masters degree in Wetland Archaeology. In 2007 he moved back to the University of Southampton to head the Palaeoenvironmental Laboratory on the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. At Southampton he had developed research into the use of sedaDNA in palaeoecology and environmental archaeology and in 2019 was appointed to a professorship at Tromsø Museum in Norway where he is one of the Directors of the ArcECoGEN Aurora Research Centre, UiT Norway. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and in a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 2000.

 

Tony Brown has also been one of the developers of forensic palynology and worked on several high-profile cases including the Severs, Kinczyk and Neave cases, and has received several of Chief-Constables letters of commendation for his work. In 1997-2003 he was partially seconded to UN-ICTY Bosnian Exhumation Team. He has published paper in this area and was a member of the Forensic Science Advisory Group (FSAG). He has appeared in several TV and Radio programmes on this work including the BBC 'Expert Witness' Series (2023-2024).