As a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Dr Sadie Watson is undertaking a four-year Fellowship ‘Measuring, maximising and transforming public benefit from UK Government infrastructure investment in archaeology’ focusing on ensuring that public spending on archaeology for infrastructure projects leads to meaningful and relevant research and genuine community participation.

Sadie has been a leading practitioner in field archaeology for two decades and has in-depth knowledge of the profession and its pressures. From 2008-2019 she worked as a MOLA Project Officer and was responsible for major sites with large field teams. She has extensive experience excavating and supervising complex urban sites and was responsible for leading excavations at Bloomberg London.