Experiences in Archaeology
2009- Working with Iran Heritage Foundation on creating an academically sound accessible educational resource on the history of Iran for the youth on the web. Continuing research at the IoA.
2008- Honorary Research Assistant at IoA, UCL: Developing IAMs Iran website, Researching Ancient Persia within the Uk education system.
2006/07- Assistant to Professor Peter Ucko Director of the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) & Professor Emeritus IOA, UCL.
2006- Assistance in supervision and coordination of the Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian studies.
2006- Organising poster exhibition and providing posters for ‘Archaeology in Conflict: Cultural heritage, site management and sustainable developments in conflict and post-conflict states in the Middle East’, IoA, UCL.
2005- Production of a website for Iranian metallurgical artefacts housed at the IOA, supported by IHF and IAMS - www.ucl.ac.uk/iams/iransurvey/
(Iranian metallurgical artefacts website)
2005- Organisation and teaching for the IHF School visits programme in conjunction with the British Museum exhibition ‘Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Iran’.
2000-01- Joint President of the SAS (Society of Archaeological Students),
Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Academic Presentations
2008-Azad University, Tehran, workshop on ‘Tourism in Iran: shortcomings and strengths. (View Paper)
2006- Iranian Prehistory Slag workshop, IoA: “Cataloguing the pyrotechnological remains of the 1968 expedition”
2006- Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian studies, SOAS: “Scholars and What they Unwittingly Reveal: the Archaeology Survey of 1968 in Iran”
2006- ICCHA Conference, Perking University: “The English Training: a student’s view point”
2006- IOA UCL, “Bam two years after the earthquake, how can IoA get involved”
2005- Iran Bastan Museum: “The Achaemenid exhibition in the British Museum 2005”.
2004- Mazandaran Iranian Cultural Heritage Centre: “Modern archaeological theories and techniques”.
2004- Iran Bastan Museum and Mazandaran Cultural Heritage Dept. “Museology”.