Dr Saunders is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, and between 1998-2001 he was British Academy Senior Research Fellow and made a pioneering anthropological study of trench art. He specialises in the study of the archaeology, material culture, and cultural memory of Twentieth-Century conflict, focusing on the WW1. His current projects include an investigation of sites associated with the 1916-18 Great Arab Revolt in southern Jordan, and a multidisciplinary study of the Isonzo Valley battle-zone on the Italian Front of the WW1. He is contributing to the ongoing redesign and regeneration of the Imperial War Museum, and the In Flanders Fields Museum. Among his most recent books are Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War.