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Ann was awarded a DPhil by the University of Sussex in 2000 for ‘The economy of the navy and Portsmouth: a discourse between the civilian naval administration of Portsmouth dockyard and the surrounding communities, 1650 to 1800’. She has presented over thirty papers on maritime and heritage themes; edited and published three books on maritime history; and published a number of articles, including four in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. She founded and is secretary of the Naval Dockyards Society and founded and coordinates the Porter’s Garden in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Since 2000 Ann has taught on the MA Maritime Studies and MSc Heritage and Museum Studies, concerned with maritime history, museology, heritage and the built environment. From 2004-7 she participated in the European Union MarMuCommerce partnership to make Maritime Museums more commercially competitive. She is Course Coordinator of MSc Heritage and Museum Studies and supervises Distance Learning Health and Safety Research Methods. She is particularly interested in the re-use of dockyards in Bermuda, Malta and Gibraltar and the ongoing impact of their closure on their communities and built environment today. She currently advises Sheerness heritage organisations on planning applications for Sheerness Dockyard and the Friends of Plymouth Naval Base Museum on the future of their museum. In 2009 MSc Heritage and Museum Studies was accredited by the Nautical Archaeological Society www.nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/ Students are able to use the MSc as equivalent learning for the NAS Part III Advanced Certificate in Foreshore and Underwater Archaeology.

Academic Qualifications

• BA Joint Honours History/English 1971
• English Local History Diploma 1979
• City & Guilds Further Education Teachers’ Certificate 1982
• MA History 1988
• DPhil History 2000 with a thesis entitled ‘The œconomy of the navy and Portsmouth. A discourse between the civilian naval administration of Portsmouth dockyard and the surrounding communities, 1650 to 1800’.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2007

Principal Academic Activities

• Lecturer MA Maritime Studies, 2000-2005
• Lecturer MSc Heritage and Museum Studies, 2000 to date
• Lecturer BA History, King Alfred College, Winchester, 2005
• Course Coordinator MSc Heritage and Museum Studies, 2007 to date
• Participant European Union InterregIIIC Research Project MarMu Commerce Training Programme 2004-2007

 Selected Publications

• ‘From “Floating tombs” to foundations. The contribution of convicts to naval dockyards and ordnance sites’, Age of Sail, II, N. Tracy, Editor (Conway Maritime Press, London, 2003), 28-42

• ‘John Clevland’, ‘Valentine Joyce’, ‘Hugh Pigot’, ‘Richard Parker’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• ‘Breakfast and chips - signifiers of power relations in dockyards. Naval shipbuilding at Deptford and Woolwich dockyards’, Papers of the Second Symposium on Shipbuilding on the Thames and Thames-built Ships, R. Owen Editor (2004), 105-122
•  ‘The Wood Mills: New Labour Practices for New Machines?’, R. Riley Editor, Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society, Portsmouth Dockyard in the Age of Nelson, Volume 1, July 2006, ISBN 978-0-9553711-0-3, 59-84
• ‘Epilogue: Rosia Water Tanks, Gibraltar’, R. Riley Editor, Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society, Gibraltar as a Naval Base and Dockyard, Volume 2, 2006, 978-0-9553711-1-0, 81-87
•  ‘Efficiency in dockyard administration 1660-1800 - a reassessment’, R. Harding Editor, Naval Warfare 1680–1850 (Ashgate London, 2006, ISBN 9780754625322)
• ‘A double tragedy’, G. Worthington Editor, John Pounds of Portsmouth: originator of Ragged Schools (John Pounds of Portsmouth Heritage Appeal, Portsmouth, 2007, ISBN 9780995499005), 22-24
•  ‘Bermuda Naval Base: Management, Artisans and their Enslaved Workers, 1795-1797 - the Heritage of the 1950 Bermudian Apprentices’, H. Murphy Editor, The Mariner’s Mirror, 95, 2 (May 2009), 149-178
• ‘The Restoration of Portsmouth Dockyard Block Mills (built 1803), 2006-8’, Dockyards, 14, 1 (July 2009), 14-18
• ‘Development issues: Sheerness Dockyard’, Dockyards , 14, 1 (July 2009), 11-13
• ‘Devonport Heritage Future Uncertain - Plymouth Naval Base Museum’, Dockyards (Dec 2009), 14, 2, 7-10