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Helen Farr is a British maritime archaeologist, and lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

Early life and education
Farr completed her PhD at Cambridge University studying Mediterranean obsidian circulation and maritime travel in the Neolithic.

Research and career
In 2009, Farr was awarded a three year Leverhulme early career fellowship to work at the University of Southampton studying the prehistoric submerged landscapes of the Solent and the dynamic relationship between people and their changing environment as sea-levels rose during the Holocene. In 2015, she started an interdisciplinary lectureship within the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute.

Her research interests focuses around ancient island colonisation in relation to the development of early seafaring.

In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council Horizon 2020 grant (2018-2022), to take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of early human colonization of Australasia (The ACROSS project).

Farr is an HSE commercial diver. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Maritime Archaeology.