Academic background
I have a broad and varied work experience in archaeology and the university sectors in England and Norway, with a specialization in the Iron Age and Viking Age. I hold a PhD in archaeology from NTNU, Trondheim and defended my dissertation in June 2022, titled "Farin Vestir and Back: Social and Itinerary Perspectives on Insular Objects in Viking-Age Norway."
Ongoing Research Project
My current Post-Doc project is titled "Silver and Society in a New Economic Era: Investigating the introduction of coinage and transition to Bullion Economies in Viking-Age Norway" and runs until October 2026. The aim of this project is to study economic changes from the early to late Viking Age by examining the incorporation and use of payment silver (coins and hack silver) from approximately 850–1000. This is a category of finds that is rarely found in graves.
Previous research on the topic has primarily focused on hoard finds and findings from urban centers, including Kaupang. This has led to a significant knowledge gap regarding the use of payment silver in non-urban areas in Scandinavia. However, the empirical material related to practices involving payment silver from the Viking Age has seen a dramatic increase in the last 10–15 years.
The project aims to utilize this untapped material from the collections of the Museum of Cultural History (and other university museums) to illuminate aspects of economic practices in geographical areas about which we currently have little knowledge.