John Boardman is a geomorphologist educated at the Universities of Keele (BA and DSc) and London (BSc, PhD, PGCE). John retired from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford, in September 2008. He is now an Emeritus Professor at the ECI, and at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He has published over 190 papers mainly on land degradation and has edited several books including Soil Erosion in Europe (2006) and Southern African Landscapes and Environmental Change (2018). John continues to work on soil erosion in southern England and on land degradation in South Africa.
Andrew Parkin is Keeper of Archaeology for the Great North Museum with a background is in both archaeology and education. His research interests include the archaeology of Ancient Greek religion, in particular Greek temple architecture and the questions of its origins and potential significance, votive deposition in Greek sanctuaries and elsewhere in the Greco-Roman world and the Classical tradition in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Sally Waite is a teaching fellow in Classics at the University of newcastle upon Tyne with particular research interests in Greek and Etruscan art. She leads a number of projects researching and cataloguing Greek and Etruscan objects held in museum collections in the north of England.
