Wendy Beck is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England in archaeology and cultural heritage.
Beck turned her attentions to archaeology after attending the Victorian Archaeological Survey Summer School in 1978–1979 and received a PhD from La Trobe University in 1986 on the subject of Technology, Toxicity and Subsistence: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Plant Food Processing.
[1] During her postgraduate research, Beck conducted fieldwork in Arnhem Land,[1] and was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University working on a bush food dietary project in 1985.
Beck was appointed a lecturer at the University of New England in 1986, within the Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology.
Beck co-edited the first book to deal with archaeobotanical studies in Sahul, Plants in Australian Archaeology, with Anne Clarke and Lesley Head.