Fellowships and Distinctions
- 2013–Present: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) of London
- 2008–2016: Senior Research Fellow, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford
- 2010–2016: Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
- 2005: Fyssen Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
- 2002–2004: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cognitive Archaeology, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
- 2002: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary (declined)
Research Grants and Prizes
- 2020: Arcadia Fund Grant, UK – Mongolian Archaeological Project: Surveying the Steppes (MAPSS) (Principal Investigator)
- 2015: Jesus College, Oxford, Major Research Grant – Genomic insights into human history in the Comoros (Principal Investigator)
- 2014: Natural Environment Research Council Radiocarbon Grant – Early rainforest foragers in Sri Lanka (Co-Investigator)
- 2014: National Geographic Grant – Crop transfers as an Austronesian signature (Principal Investigator)
- 2013: Natural Environment Research Council Radiocarbon Grant – Crop transfers in Comoros and Madagascar (Principal Investigator)
- 2013: Wenner Gren Conference Grant – Proto-globalisation in the Indian Ocean world (Principal Investigator)
- 2012: Natural Environment Research Council Radiocarbon Grant – Zanzibar and early Indian Ocean contacts (Principal Investigator)
- 2012: Antiquity Ben Cullen Prize
- 2011: Natural Environment Research Council Radiocarbon Grant – Foraging and agriculture on the East African littoral (Principal Investigator)
- 2010: John Fell Research Fund – Seed bias in archaeological science (Principal Investigator)
- 2010: Natural Environment Research Council Radiocarbon Grant – Maritime subsistence and trade in early Sri Lanka (Principal Investigator)
- 2008–2015: European Research Council Starting Researcher Grant – Bridging continents across the sea (Principal Investigator)
- 2008–2012: Australian Research Council Discovery Project – Impact of the Toba super-eruption (Co-Investigator)
- 2008: McDonald Institute Research Grant – Europa Point excavations (Principal Investigator)
- 2007: McDonald Institute Research Grant – Prehistoric Gibraltar (Principal Investigator)
- 2007–2010: UK-India Education and Research Initiative – First ‘Out of Africa’ settlement of Homo sapiens in India (Co-Partner)
- 2005: British Academy Larger Research Grant – Confronting diversity in the South Indian Neolithic (Principal Investigator)
- 2003: AHRC Research Grant – South Indian Neolithic diversity (Principal Investigator)
- 2004: Antiquity Ben Cullen Prize
- 2004: British Academy and McDonald Institute Conference Grants – South Indian Neolithic Research (Principal Investigator)
- 2003: British Academy Larger Research Grant – Sanganakallu-Kupgal Prehistoric Heritage (Principal Investigator)
- 2003: McDonald Institute Cambridge Research Grant – Sanganakallu-Kupgal sites (Principal Investigator)
- 2003: Society for South Asian Studies Travel Grant – Studies at Kurnool Caves, Andhra Pradesh (Principal Investigator)
- 2002: British Academy Minor Research Grant – Survey at Sanganakallu, south India (Principal Investigator)
- 2002: Society for South Asian Studies Travel Grant – Survey in Bellary District, south India (Principal Investigator)
- 2002: Prehistoric Society Bob Smith Award – Investigation of Sanganakallu, south India (Principal Investigator)