Dr Alex Hale (FSAScot CIFA)
Teaching Fellow
Background
Dr Alex Hale is an archaeologist based in Edinburgh. He works at Historic Environment Scotland and is an archaeology Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His research-based practices are multi-disciplinary and draw on landscape, archive, artefacts and creative responses. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists and a member of the Research Council UK (AHRC) peer-review college.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-4003
https://historicenvironment.academia.edu/AlexGCHale
Qualifications
Archaeology PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2000), Geography and Archaeology BA Joint Honours from the University of Manchester (1992).
Responsibilities & affiliations
MIFA, FSAScot
Research summary
Alex co-ordinates a Royal Society of Edinburgh funded, international research network that considers contemporary issues through archaeological and creative lenses, in and of Scotland. His work has focussed on graffiti, photography and contemporary unfolding practices. Alex attempts to work across and beyond the margins of disciplinary boundaries, with the aims of working collaboratively, sensitively and with respect for those present, past and future.
Current research interests
The role that archaeology plays when considering contemporary and historical graffiti, how graffiti and contemporary cultures inform our understanding of urban and rural relationships, emerging archaeological and creative practice. Archaeology, artefacts and archives.Past research interests
Marine crannogs, Prehistoric rock art.Knowledge exchange
Alex recently co-created a community engagement and participation project at the Livi skatepark, which led to the successful designation of the oldest surviving skatepark in Scotland, as a category B listed site. This was mainly due to the knowledge and enthusiasm shared by skatepark communities across and beyond Scotland.
Hale, A. 2024 .Co-archaeology: working towards the present through the complex nature of archaeology of the 18th to 20th centuries, pp 147-150 in Hale, A. and Kersting, T. (eds.) 2024 EAC Occasional Paper 19, 'New Challenges'; Archaeological Heritage Management and the Archaeology of the 18th to 20th centuries. Proceedings of the European Archaeology Council International Conference Bonn, Germany, 22–25 March 2023. Archaeolingua, Budapest. DOI https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.66.23
Hale, A. 2024. Archaeology, artefacts and archives, pgs 22-27 https://figshare.unimelb.edu.au/articles/report/Urban_Surfaces_Research_Network_Vol_3/26518561?file=48641947
Hale, A. 2023. 'Graffiti Some Times' in Veerhoven, G. et al. Document | Archive | Disseminate Graffiti-Scapes, Proceedings of the goINDIGO 2022 International Graffiti Symposium, p16 - 24. https://doi.org/10.48619/indigo.v0i0.700.
Hale, A. and Anderson, I. 2019. Photographing Graffiti, chapter in McFadyen, L. and Hicks, D. (eds), Archaeology and Photography: Time, Objectivity and Archive. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 151-165 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003103325