Dr Colleen Batey is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow with extensive experience of both excavation and publication in the arena of Viking and Late Norse Culture in the North Atlantic and Scotland. A graduate of the University of Durham, she has held lectureships in the University of Leeds and University College London before taking up the post of Curator of Archaeology at Glasgow Museums, the largest Metropolitan Museum service in the UK. She was the British advisor for the Smithsonian Institute Vikings North Atlantic Saga exhibit which toured widely in the US and Canada.

More recently she has also held the post as Finds Research Manager for the Archaeological Institute of Iceland. She has lectured and travelled widely in the British Isles, Scandinavia and the Baltic as well as and North America, as both expedition staff and guest lecturer.