Since completing his MSCA ITN, Nik has been a curator for the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum where he helped set up a digital repository for preserving material and crafting knowledge; a MSCA fellow in Archaeology at Cambridge University where he researched the recent social and material cultural history of the Ilchamus community to understand the cultural dynamics that shaped community life in the last 200 years; and has worked as an Engagement Manager at Cambridge Zero. He is now a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at Cambridge researching the historical ecology of the Cambridgeshire Fens and how it might be useful to addressing current farming challenges.
Nik has authored multiple papers on the historical ecology of pastoralism and the East African coast, on ‘weathering’ archaeology to better capture the experience of climate change, and on material culture change coupled with archaeological theory. He is interested in and is developing projects around the historical ecology of conflict, usable archaeologies and community co-production that increases biodiversity and resilience in farming, and the archaeology of 1st millennium CE East Africa as well as its long 19th century.
You can see a list of Nik’s publications here and on Google Scholar.