Chris Wakefield completed a BA in Archaeology at the University of Liverpool in 2011 before working as a field archaeologist across the UK between 2011 and 2017. Since 2015 he has worked as the digital outreach coordinator for the Must Farm project, an excavation focusing on a Late Bronze Age settlement destroyed by fire in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. He completed an MSc in Digital Heritage at the University of York in 2018 with a thesis focusing on digital public archaeology at Must Farm and the value of interactive online engagement work.