UCL Institute of Archaeology

• BA, MA, PhD
• Honorary Research Associate
  
• Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2010-2012

 Research Interests

• Theories of social practice
• Relationship between archaeology and anthropology
• Community heritage
• Indigenous representation in museums
• The role of oral history in museums
• Relationship between memory and materiality
• Digital anthropology
• Pacific ethnographic collections
• Landscape archaeology
• Relationship between architecture and artefact
• Actor-network theory

Research Directory Records

• Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
• Pacific Islands Research Network

Educational Background

• 2008: PhD in Pacific Archaeology, University College London
  Thesis: Practice-centred approach to Uneapa Island’s archaeology in a long term context.
• 2003: MA in Artefact Studies, University College London
  Thesis title: Animate Objects: A.C. Haddon's acquisitions from the Torres Straits and Papua New Guinea at the Horniman Museum, 1902-1915.
• 1999: BA in Archaeology & English. NUI, Galway
  Thesis title: Understanding Bronze Age Hoards from British and Irish rivers within a social context.

• Byrne, S. (forthcoming 2012) Voicing the Museum Artefact. Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies.

• Byrne, S. (forthcoming 2012) Rock Art as Material Culture: A Case Study on Uneapa Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

• Harrison, R. Byrne, S., Clarke, A. (eds.) (forthcoming 2012) Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. SAR Press, New Mexico.

• Byrne, S. (forthcoming 2012) Exposing the ‘heart’ of the museum- the archaeological sensibility in the storeroom. In Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. SAR Press, New Mexico.
• Byrne, S. March 2012. Community Archaeology as Knowledge Management: Reflections from Uneapa Island, Papua New Guinea. Public Archaeology. 11 (1): 26-52.

• Byrne, S., Clarke, A., Harrison, R. and Torrence, R. (eds.) (2011) Unpacking the collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum, One World Archaeology Series, Springer.

• Byrne, S., Clarke, A., Harrison, R. and Torrence, R. (eds.) (2011) Networks, Agents and Objects: Frameworks for Unpacking Museum Collections, In Unpacking the collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum, pp. 3-26. 

• Byrne, S. (2011) Trials and Traces: A. C. Haddon’s Agency as Museum Curator . In Unpacking the collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum, pp. 306-25. One World Archaeology Series, Springer.

• Byrne, S., 2005. Recent Survey and Excavation of the Monumental Complexes on Uneapa Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Papers of the Institute of Archaeology, 16:95-102.