Colleen Batey

Colleen Batey MIFA, FSA has excavated extensively on Viking and Late Norse sites in Northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland and more recently in Iceland. She became interested in archaeology as a child, going on to study archaeology at Durham University from where she was awarded her doctorate in 1984.

Between 1982 and 1990 she was lecturer in archaeology at the Universities of Leeds, Durham and University College London, before joining the staff as Curator of Archaeology for Glasgow Museums in 1990. Since 2002 she has been lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Finds Research Manager for the Archaeological Institute of Iceland in Reykjavik. Colleen worked as British coordinator with the Smithsonian Institute of Washington to prepare the Vikings: North Atlantic Saga exhibition which toured the US between 2000 and 2003. She co-authored the volume The Vikings in Scotland: The Archaeological Evidence, with James Graham-Campbell. She has written over 50 scholarly articles and has made innumerable contributions to academic volumes. Colleen’s research interests focus on the settlement and burial of Scandinavian settlers in Northern Scotland and the North Atlantic and she has travelled extensively throughout the area.