Dr Cook graduated from the archaeology department in Edinburgh in 1995 and has since worked across Northern Britain in a variety of roles in commercial and curatorial archaeology. He is currently employed as Stirling Council’s Archaeologist giving archaeological advice to Stirling, Clackmannanshire and North Lanarkshire Councils.
In 2015 he gained a PhD from Edinburgh for a study of the later prehistoric settlement record of the Don Valley in Aberdeenshire, combining key-hole excavation with commercial mitigation excavations.
Dr Cook conducts research excavations into later prehistoric settlement sites in Stirling, East Lothian and Aberdeenshire and am the co-founder and co-director of Rampart Scotland an archaeological field school http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/. He regularly hosts student placements and am keen to hear from interested individuals.