Ms Hayley SAUL

• Lecturer, Department of Tourism and Heritage Studies, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia

• Session 3: Presenter 2 (*Video Presentation)

Hayley Saul is a Lecturer at Western Sydney University (Australia) and Director of the Himalayan Exploration and Archaeological Research Team (H.E.A.R.T) research group. Her research explores the heritage and archaeology of the Himalayas, and the interface of these disciplines with development agendas. H.E.A.R.T operates in community partnership with Nepalese communities as well as the, charity-NGO Community Action Nepal, with whom Hayley is a heritage consultant, building an archaeology/heritage ‘arm’ to the charity, to operationalize the results of HEART and bring about positive benefits to rural Nepalese communities. Following her PhD at the University of York she undertook AHRC funded postdoctoral research with the Early Pottery in East Asia Project and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post-doctoral fellow on the Japanese Archaeo-Ceramic Residue Research Strategy project (JARRS), to investigate cuisine and foodways in prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups in Denmark, northern Germany and Japan throughout the Holocene. In 2013-14 she undertook a Fixed Term Lectureship in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, UK.