Timothy Neal

The University of Sheffield, Urban Studies and Planning, Seminar Leader

University of Bath, School of Management, Research Assistant

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I have a varied background in Anthropology, Tourism Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Urban and Spatial Planning, Theology and the broad field of Social Science.
I completed my doctoral thesis at the department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. It was an anthropological project focussed around an ethnography of a village in the South of France in the context of British migration.
Philosophically I am much drawn to the work of Slajov Zizek whose work I've been following for 10 years now. I consider myself an independent academic - I've termed myself a "paracademic" or at times an "involunteer" having been heavily involved in voluntary work over many years.
I work with several artists involving socially engaged arts practice. Most recently with Jonathan Turner on a photography portrait project where I used audio recordings to account for my anthropological perspective.
I take a leading role in several community-based projects (at times involuntary work…). I have been active in the field of asylum and refugee support through ASSIST (Sheffield) and I am currently working with Roma community members across South Yorkshire where we have established a Roma led organisation – Roma Futures.
I continue to work in Urban Studies and Planning where I lead seminars at undergraduate and post-graduate level as well as supervising Master’s dissertations.

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Tim Neal photograph, fairground scene, 2003

Williams Brothers' Austin Car Juvenile photographed Summer 2003

Fir Vale Food Bank

Elbow Grease and Time to Spare: The Place of Tree Carving

Wild Signs: Graffiti in Archaeology and History

'Assembles a series of innovative studies in the historical archaeology of graffiti. A rich v... more 'Assembles a series of innovative studies in the historical archaeology of graffiti. A rich variety of case studies range from figures carved into the bark of aspen trees in upland Nevada made during the 1910s to stencilled rats on the streets of 21st century Bristol, and from ships scratched into the limestone of Tewkesbury Cathedral to aircraft drawn on the walls of farm buildings by horselads in the Yorkshire Wolds in the early 20th century. Through these case studies, the editors clearly demonstrate the potential of such sites to wider archaeological debates around the study of art and landscape: looking at the affects of artworks, rather than simply trying to interpret their meaning.' - from the preface by series editors Dan Hicks and Joashua Pollard.

Assemblage 8 Editorial

Practice Makes Perfect

Springer US eBooks, 2006

In this paper I explained how my experience of Italy as a lively culturally modern place in the e... more In this paper I explained how my experience of Italy as a lively culturally modern place in the early 1980’s together with my knowledge of landscape archaeology led me to experience tourism images as something negative, which veiled reality. I came to describe them as a boundary, a ‘Haha!’, an unseen barrier to experience. The limits of this have resulted