[6] The family emigrated to Australia, but later returned to the United Kingdom:[5] he holds both Australian and British citizenship.

[6][9] He then moved to La Trobe University, where he had been appointed a lecturer in its Department of Archaeology in 1986.

[6] He stepped down as Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in 2006, when he was appointed to the Chair of European Archaeology and elected a fellow of Keble College, Oxford.

He is the Principal Investigator for the ERC funded HORSEPOWER project in collaboration with the British Museum and colleagues at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and, the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA).

[6] She is a legal scholar and Director of the Centre for Law, Health and Emerging Technologies at the University of Oxford.