Jean (Judy) Birmingham AM is a prominent English historical archaeologist, who has been based in Sydney, Australia, for most of her career.
[4] Birmingham and her then-husband Michael travelled to Australia, where she taught as a lecturer, specialising in Iron Age Cyprus and Anatolia.
[6] In 1966, Birmingham began to look for sites close to Sydney where her students could get basic training in archaeological techniques, including excavation.
Her excavations there provided an archaeological view of the place where George Augustus Robinson housed the displaced Aborignal Tasmanians.
[12][13] Birmingham was also an active member of the National Trust of Australia,[13] including acting as Chairman of its Industrial Archaeology Committee (1969-1985).