Dr Thomas Pickles is Associate Professor of Early Medieval History in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. He is Research Coordinator for History and Programme Leader for the MRes in History. He is General Editor for the Brepols series Studies in the Early Middle Ages, a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Northern History, and Chair of the Chester Archaeological Society, and Principal Investigator of the UKRI AHRC funded project Early Christian Churches and Landscapes (ECCLES). He teaches on the Undergraduate and Postgraduate History programmes, and supervises MRes and PhD researchers.