Staff profile

Gemma is a community archaeologist and museum professional who has worked on collaborative projects to enhance mutual understandings of cultural landscapes and museum collections between diverse stakeholders in Europe and North Africa. Her PhD (University of Southampton, 2010) focused on innovative, community-based approaches for the representation of ancient and modern Egypt in museums. This research was recently developed into a ground-breaking exhibition at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, in which contemporary Egyptian art and ancient Egyptian artefacts were displayed side-by-side (see http://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/art/news/exhibition-at-the-egyptian-museum-in-cairo). 

Gemma has worked in the Museum sector in the UK in learning, visitor services and curatorial roles, as well as co-ordinated community archaeology projects, from excavations and exhibitions to co-authored publications, in the UK, Sudan and Egypt.

Gemma has published widely on heritage, community archaeology and museology. Her role within the Durham University REFIT project (see www.refitproject.com and https://refitproject.wordpress.com/) was to carry out stakeholder interviews and develop engagement strategies surrounding the management of cultural landscapes within the two UK case study area and to share best practice. Due to the success of the first phase of the REFIT project, the UK research has been extended to look at 3 further landscapes in the Cotswolds. The work will build on recommendations for integrated rural landscape management from Moore and Tully's 2017 paper (see publications), which aims to shape government policy and build sustainable management strategies for the future.

Authored book

• Tully, G., Didier-Hess, V., Khalil, M., & Abla, N. (2017). Eternal Light, Something Old Something New. Art D'Egypte
• Tully, G., & Ridges, M. (2016). Regenerating Practices Series, Volume 2: Collaborative Heritage Management. Gorgias Press
• Tully, G., & Naser, C. (2016). Discovering Mograt Island Together. Humboldt University Press

Chapter in book

• Bednarski, A., & Tully, G. Aspects of the relationships between the community of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and ancient Egyptian monuments. In Oxford Handbook of Egyptology. Oxford University Press
• Moore, T., & Tully, G. (2021). Exploring archaeology’s place in participatory European cultural landscape management: perspectives from the ‘REFIT’ project. In E. Stegmeijer, & L. Veldpaus (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning. Perspectives from Europe (61-73). Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974639
• Tully, G. (2017). Re-imagining Egypt: Artefacts, Contemporary Art and Community Engagement in the Museum. In B. Onciul, S. Hawke, & M. Stefano (Eds.), Heritage Matters (91-106). Boydell & Brewer
• Tully, G. (2017). Re-imagining Egypt: Artefacts, Contemporary Art and Community Engagement in the Museum (Chapter 37). In R. Skeates (Ed.), Museums and Archaeology. Routledge
• Tully, G. (2017). Contemporary Egyptian Dialogues: Collaborative Approaches to Museum Displays of Ancient Egypt. In F. Hassan, G. Tassie, A. De Trafford, L. Owens, & J. Van Wetering (Eds.), ECHO Series - Discourses in Heritage Management in Egypt: The Management of Egypt's Cultural Heritage. Golden House
• Tully, G. (2016). Resituating cultural landscapes: Pan-European strategies for sustainable management. In R. Amoêda, S. Lira, & C. Pinheiro (Eds.), Heritage 2016, 5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Book of abstracts. Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 July (347-359). Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development
• Tully, G. (2010). Ten Years On: The Community Archaeology Project Quseir, Egypt. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference for Archaeology and Education. University of Barcelona

Journal Article

• Moore, T., & Tully, G. (2018). Connecting landscapes: Examining and enhancing the relationship between stakeholder values and cultural landscape management in England. Landscape Research, 43(6), 769-783. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2017.1360471
• Tully, G., & Allen, M. (2017). Participatory Augering: A methodology for challenging perceptions of archaeology and landscape change. Public Archaeology, 16(3-4), 191-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2018.1496519
• Tully, G. (2015). Community Archaeology in Sudan: Discovering Mograt Island Together
• Tully, G. (2014). Community Archaeology on Mograt Island: Sharing Spaces, Understanding Sites
• Tully, G., & Hanna, M. (2013). One landscape many tenants: Uncovering multiple claims, visions and meanings on the Theban Necropolis. Archaeologies, 9.3, 362-397
• Tully, G. (2011). Re-presenting Ancient Egypt: Reengaging Communities through Collaborative Archaeological Methodologies for Museum Displays
• Tully, G. (2009). Iraq’s Past Speaks to the Present: Contemporary Art from Iraq and Syria at the British Museum
• Tully, G. (2007). Was there more to life in Ancient Egypt than the preparation for death? Looking at most Egyptology shows, you wouldn’t think so. Museums journal,
• Tully, G. (2007). Community Archaeology: General Methods and Standards of Practice. Public Archaeology, 6(3), 155-187