Joel Taylor is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), working on a range of areas connected to heritage management. He has a BSc in Archaeological Conservation from Cardiff University (1993-1996), where he returned to read for a part-time PhD in collection condition surveys and risk assessment (2002-2009). 
During this time, he worked at the Museum of National History, Cardiff, as a conservator (1997-1999), English Heritage from conservation intern to senior collections conservator (1999-2002) and the University College London Centre for Sustainable Heritage as research then director of the MSc programme in Sustainable Heritage (2002 – 2011), working on a variety of projects such as MASTER, Noah’s Ark and Cityware (where he developed his interest in mobile technology in the service of heritage).
In 2011, he moved to Oslo, contributing as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo before taking up his current position. He is also an assistant editor for the international journal Studies in Conservation.