Keynote speakers

Wiley Keynote Speaker: Dr Abi Stone

'Lithics in the landscape of the Namib Sand Sea: (starting to) explore human-environmental dynamics during the Late Quaternary.'

Abi Stone is a Reader in Physical Geography at the University of Manchester, where she has been based since 2014. She is a Quaternary scientist interested in dryland environments and how they responded to climatic change. As part of this research Abi explores interdisciplinary questions about ancient human-environmental interactions in these environments, working with colleagues in archaeology. She explores the signatures of past geomorphological processes, studies the sand-rich and carbonate-rich sediments, applying luminescence dating and U-Th dating, and has also investigated aspects of dryland hydrogeological systems. Abi has conducted her research at sites in southern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Australia and her current project “PANS” takes her back to the Namib Sand Sea with a wonderful team of archaeologists, geographers and spatial scientists.

QRA Keynote Speaker: Professor Becky Briant

'Quaternary landscape reconstruction and ground engineering: a win-win partnership.'

Becky Briant is a Professor at Birkbeck University of London. She works with geomorphological and sedimentological records of landscape change, mostly in fluvial and coastal environments, with particular interests in sediment dating methods (OSL, radiocarbon). Her main research interest is in landscape reconstruction at various timescales, and she has worked in Iraq and Saudi Arabia in addition to England. Since 2020, Becky has been collaborating with academics, industry, geoarchaeologists and Government bodies such as the British Geological Survey to build collaborations and common ways of working through the QRA Engineering Research Group. She is currently (2024-2026) a Royal Society Industry Fellow, working with the Tunnelling and Ground Engineering team at Jacobs.

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