Hannah Fluck

Hannah Fluck
BA MA PhD, FSA AIF ACIfA[1][2]
OccupationArchaeologist
Academic background
Education
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Southampton
ThesisNon-biface assemblages in Middle Pleistocene Western Europe. A comparative study (2011)
Academic work
Institutions
  • Historic England
  • National Trust
  • Council for British Archaeology

Hannah Fluck is a British archaeologist specialising in heritage management in research and climate change policy and action as it relates to heritage practice. Fluck is Senior National Archaeologist at the National Trust and the former Head of Environmental Strategy at Historic England. Fluck works in climate heritage as a founding steering committee member of the Climate Heritage Network.[3]

Education

Fluck graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and Anthropology in 2000.[4] She got completed a PhD in the archaeology of human evolution at the University of Southampton in 2011,[5] with a thesis titled Non-biface assemblages in Middle Pleistocene Western Europe. A comparative study.[6]

Career

Fluck served as the Events Secretary for the Lithics Study Society from 2006 to 2010.[7] Fluck worked as the Historic Environment Intelligence Officer in the Research Department of Historic England from 2015 to 2016, becoming the Head of Environmental Research in 2016 and the Head of Environmental Strategy in 2019.[8] During her time at Historic England, Fluck was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.[9] In 2022, Fluck joined the National Trust as Senior National Archaeologist.[8]

Fluck has worked as an External Advisor for Newcastle University's Centre for Landscape research,[5] and an Affiliate of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at University of Exeter.[10] Fluck is on the steering committee for the Climate Heritage Network – which was founded at UN Climate Action Summit in 2018 – and serves as the Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Vice Chair.[3] Fluck is a Co-Investigator on two AHRC-funded research projects on heritage and climate change.[11] She is one of the contributing authors for the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022,[12] and co-author of Historic England's Climate Change Adaptation Report with Ruth Knight.[13] Fluck is also a trustee of the Council for British Archaeology.[14]

Selected publications

  • UK Climate Risk Assessment (2022) By: Fluck, Hannah.[12]
  • Climate Change Adaptation Report (2024) By: Kate Guest, Claire Marchetti, Lucy More, Paul Lankester Other contributors: Claire Hedley, Tamsin Foster, Benedict Lyte. Historic England. : ISSN 2059-4453[13]
  • Quaternary palaeoecology and the historic environment: Challenges and opportunities for preserving England's wetlands (2023) By: Hazell, Zoë & Last, Jonathan & Campbell, Gill & Corcoran, Jane & Fluck, Hannah. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 134. 10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.11.002.[15]
  • Climate Change and Archaeology. An Introduction. Internet Archaeology (2022) By: Fluck, Hannah & Guest, Kate. 10.11141/ia.60.1.[16]
  • Climate Change and the Historic Environment (2021) By: Fluck, Hannah & Dawson, Michael. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice. 12. 263-270. 10.1080/17567505.2021.1990492.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Dr Hannah Fluck". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  2. ^ "Directory of Accredited Professionals | CIfA". www.archaeologists.net. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  3. ^ a b "Steering Committee". Climate Heritage Network. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  4. ^ "Maintenance | Oxford University Department for Continuing Education". www.conted.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  5. ^ a b "External Advisors | Centre for Landscape | Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  6. ^ Fluck, Hannah Louise (May 2011). Non-biface assemblages in Middle Pleistocene Western Europe. A comparative study (PhD thesis). University of Southampton.
  7. ^ Saville, Alan (2010). "The origins and first 30 years of the Lithic Studies Society" (PDF). Lithics: The Journal of the Lithic Studies Society. 31: 78–87.
  8. ^ a b "Hannah Fluck". ORCID. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  9. ^ "Dr Hannah Fluck". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2025-11-12.
  10. ^ Exeter, University of. "People | Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP)". University of Exeter. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  11. ^ "Hannah Fluck". UKRI's Gateway to Research. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  12. ^ a b "UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  13. ^ a b Fluck, Hannah; Knight, Ruth (2022). Climate change adaptation report. historicengland.org.uk (Report). Historic England Research Report Series. Historic England. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  14. ^ "Meet the Team & Trustees". Council for British Archaeology. Retrieved 2025-11-12.
  15. ^ Hazell, Zoë; Last, Jonathan; Campbell, Gill; Corcoran, Jane; Fluck, Hannah (2023-08-01). "Quaternary palaeoecology and the historic environment: Challenges and opportunities for preserving England's wetlands". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 134 (4): 458–475. Bibcode:2023PrGA..134..458H. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2022.11.002. ISSN 0016-7878.
  16. ^ Guest, Kate (2022-05-26). "Climate Change and Archaeology. An Introduction". Internet Archaeology (60). doi:10.11141/ia.60.1. ISSN 1363-5387.
  17. ^ Fluck, Hannah; and Dawson, Michael (2021-10-02). "Climate Change and the Historic Environment". The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice. 12 (3–4): 263–270. doi:10.1080/17567505.2021.1990492. ISSN 1756-7505.