Nevett grew up in London, and first became interested in archaeology at the age of six, when her mother took her to visit the Treasures of Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum in 1972.
Her research focuses largely on domestic architecture, and how the use of space within houses can reveal insights on broader social questions, and challenging traditional text-based ideas about household relationships.
Currently she co-directs excavations at the city of Olynthos, with Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (University of Liverpool/British School at Athens).
Her first book, House and Society in the Ancient Greek World, was published by Cambridge University Press, New Studies in Archaeology Series, in 1999, reprinted and issued in paperback in 2001.
[5] Her second book, Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity was also published by CUP, in the Key Themes in Ancient History Series in 2010.