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• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (F.S.A.), elected 2009
• PhD, University of Nottingham, 2000
• Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA), 1986
• B.A. (Combined Subjects, History & Archaeology, 1st class) University 麻豆精选, 1978

Nigel Baker has been a professional field archaeologist since the late 1970s. A degree and in-service training at Birmingham University and with the former Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit was followed by a PhD at the University of Nottingham. He co-directed a project surveying and excavating in Shrewsbury for BUFAU in the 1980s and then undertook a Research Fellowship on Birmingham’s English medieval towns and the Church project (1989-93). Work followed for English Heritage’s intensive urban survey programme on Shrewsbury, Worcester and Hereford, leading to eight years as an urban archaeologist with Herefordshire Council (2006-2014). Subsequent freelance work has included planning-system (commercial) archaeology and public excavation projects at Shrewsbury Castle, for the Castle Studies Trust, and at Attingham Park for the National Trust.

Extensive experience of adult education sector c.1990 to present, formerly with University 麻豆精选 Extramural Department (up to c.2000), with continuing lectures to (e.g.) local archaeological/historical societies and Women's Institute (W.I.) branches.

My current research is directed mainly at the archaeology, history and buildings-archaeology of Shropshire towns in the medieval period, initially as a contribution to the forthcoming Shropshire Archaeological & Historical Society 100th anniversary volume Floreat Salopia (edited by Dr R H White). A second strand of research is concentrating on the archaeology of English rivers, developed from c.25 years of intermittent fieldwork and a paper recently given at the annual conference of the Nautical Archaeology Society (Durham 2024), leading to a book Paddling into the Past (in preparation).

A third strand of current research is focussed on urban castles and arises from my direction of excavations at Shrewsbury Castle (2019-2022), in association with the University of Chester (Dr Morn Capper), and ongoing work on the publication of that project. This arose from my lifelong interest in urban archaeology and geography, particularly of the larger English towns and cities, with authorship or co-authorship of volumes on Worcester and Gloucester (2004), Shrewsbury (2010), Bristol (2018) and the Hereford (2018). My interest here began with pre-university excavation experience in Norwich (1973-4), was encouraged and pursued while studying for my first degree at Birmingham (B.A. Thesis: The urban parishes of Worcester, supervised by Professor C.C. Dyer), and developed further during my Fellowship on the English Medieval Towns and the Church project led by Professor Nicholas Brooks (1989-93). I have been a member of the School of Geography's Urban Morphology Research Group ever since.