Richard Tuffin

Richard has over 22 years’ experience in the heritage industry nationally and internationally, having worked in government, university and commercial sectors. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney and conducts research in relation to the Australian convict period, in particular the deployment and management of unfree labour. His postdoc project focuses on an historical archaeological investigation of the workshops of the Port Arthur penal station (1830-77), examining the documentary and archaeological record for insight into the work regimes and outputs of the convict system. He works in the Digital Humanities, having produced for a previous project (Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-77 [2017-20]) a webmap of Port Arthur. Alongside Professor Martin Gibbs he is also creating a similar mapping system for convict places throughout Australia. His area of expertise in particular focuses on the application of spatial methodologies to data collection, management and dissemination.