Ian Archer

Skills Development Officer
Photograph of Ian Archer.

Contact

Email: ina@aber.ac.uk
Phone: 2219

Responsibilities

Ian is responsible for the design and organisation of the Professional Development Programme for Postdoctoral and Contract Research Staff.  For the last 2 years, he has been working as Postgraduate Skills Co-ordinator, developing transferable skills training for PGRs, and his new position combines the two roles to develop, implement and evaluate the Roberts agenda at Aberystwyth.

Ian is responsible for the design and organisation of the Professional Development Programme for Postdoctoral and Contract Research Staff.  For the last 2 years, he has been working as Postgraduate Skills Co-ordinator, developing transferable skills training for PGRs, and his new position combines the two roles to develop, implement and evaluate the Roberts agenda at Aberystwyth. 
Ian trained as an historian at Aber specialising in British politics during the American Revolution.  He went onto research and teach at UWE, broadening his research interests into c.19th/20th social history.  He moved into the training sphere at the Institute of Historical Research, where he organised discipline specific training for historians.  Ian spends most of his spare time sympathetically restoring an c.18th cob cottage.

Biography

Ian trained as an historian at Aber specialising in British politics during the American Revolution.  He went onto research and teach at UWE, broadening his research interests into c.19th/20th social history.  He moved into the training sphere at the Institute of Historical Research, where he organised discipline specific training for historians.  Ian spends most of his spare time sympathetically restoring an c.18th cob cottage.