Duncan has taught at the Universities of Reading, Chester, Oxford and Bath and won a School of Forensic and Applied Sciences award for excellence in teaching and learning in 2011. He is an associate of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath and has an undergraduate degree in 'Archaeology and Prehistory' from the University of Sheffield (2000), a masters in 'Death and Society' from the University of Reading (2002) and a PhD in archaeology from the University of Reading (2007). Before coming to UCLan Duncan worked as a senior commercial archaeology in London, Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Home Counties. He has excavated a number of notable cemetery sites and has been teaching field archaeology for over 12 years.

Sayer, D. (2014) ‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’: infant mortality within Anglo-Saxon mortuary geography. Medieval Archaeology 58: 83-109 Sayer, D. (2013) Two Viking ship burials and the transience of situational ethics: Comments on Asgeir Svestad: What happened in Neiden? Norwegian Archaeology Review 46(2): 9-11 Sayer, D. & Dickinson, S.D. (2013) Reconsidering Obstetric Death and Female Fertility in Anglo-Saxon England World Archaeology 45(2): 285-297 Sayer, D. & Dickinson, S.D. (2013) Death and the Anglo-Saxon Mother. British Archaeology 132: 30-35. Sayer, D. & Wienhold, M. (2013) A GIS-investigation of Four Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Ripley’s K-Function analysis of spatial groupings amongst graves. Social Science Computer Review 31(1):70-88