Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on the rural communities, farming practices and economy of northwest Europe during the Early Middle Ages, between AD 400-1000. She is a Fellow of St Cross College, where she was Vice-Master from 2005-2008, and an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College. She recently led a major ERC-funded research project investigating the bioarchaeological evidence for the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’. Her books include: Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in Northwest Europe, AD 400-900 (2002); The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology ( with D. Hinton and S. Crawford, 2011); 2012 Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (2012); and, with M. McKerracher (eds), New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: Crop, Stock and Furrow (2022).