Dr Britt Baillie is a Panel Tutor at the Institute of Continuing Education (University of Cambridge), an Honorary Research Associate, McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge), a Guest Fellow, Amsterdam School of Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam and an editor of the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict series. She and Prof. Ihab Saloul are Editors-in-Chief of the forthcoming Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. In 2023, she was a Guest Researcher at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde.
She co-edited: (2021) Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia: Synchronous Pasts, Palgrave with Gruia Badescu and Francesco Mazzucchelli; (2020) African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development, Palgrave with Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen and 2013. 'Locating Urban Conflict: Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday'. London: Palgrave Macmillan. with Wendy Pullan.
Previously, she was the (consultant) Research Lead for FuturePart's (Privately Owned) Public Spaces research project; a field archaeologist at the Museum of North Zealand; an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand; a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria; a Research Fellow on the Capital Cities Institutional Research Theme, University of Pretoria; a researcher and founding member of the Centre for Urban Conflict Research (University of Cambridge); an Affiliated Lecturer at the Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge; Director of Studies for Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse; a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the Conflict in Cities and the Contested State ESRC funded research project; an AHRC funded Early Career Researcher on the Cambridge Community Heritage Project; a Research Fellow at CLUE VU University of Amsterdam; and a coordinator of the Cambridge Heritage Research Group.
Britt features in National Geographic's documentary entitled: 'Viking Apocalypse' in which she explores the fate of 54 beheaded skeletons found in a mass-grave in Dorset, UK.
She completed her PhD in Archaeology and Heritage Management at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Her thesis title was 'The Wounded Church: War, Destruction and Reconstruction of Vukovar's religious heritage'.
