Elise Unwin

(she/they)

BA (Hons), MA

Overview

I am a PhD student in the School of Modern Languages looking at Collecting Covid as a mental health archive and history resource in Wales. It is a collaborative PhD with Amgueddfa Cymru (St Fagan's) as well as with Cardiff University and the University of Exeter, which is funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) scheme. 

I received both my BA and MA from UCL's Institute of Archaeology. I hold a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Public Archaeology. For my MA dissertation in particular I was focused on ways to use heritage and archaeology for positive mental health and wellbeing, which has influenced my focus in my PhD research with the Collecting Covid archive.

During my MA in 2020 I was also the co-author of the paper "Reading Kipling's The Land Through a Lens of Archaeology, Landscape, and English Nationalism" published in the Public Archaeology journal. 

I have also worked as a commercial archaeologist at various points between 2019-2023 and have also worked for the National Trust doing research and presentations for a small property in Surrey.