Reuben Grima is a senior lecturer in the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage at the University of Malta, lecturing mainly in cultural heritage management. Since 2011, he has coordinated the taught MA programme in Cultural Heritage Management. He read for his PhD in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, while holding a Commonwealth Scholarship. Before joining the University of Malta, he held various curatorial roles at Malta’s National Museum of Archaeology. From 2003 to 2011, he served as Heritage Malta’s Senior Curator responsible for Malta’s two prehistoric World Heritage Sites, namely the the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and the Megalithic Temples of Malta, serving as Project Leader for the 4.2 million euro ERDF project to shelter Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra Temples. Between 2015 and 2020, he was a research team member of the FRAGSUS project, funded by the European Research Council to investigate fragility and stability in restricted island environments. In 2022, while holding a Shortland-Jones Fellowship at the British School at Rome, he pursued research on early modern antiquarian networks between Malta and Rome. His current research interests include cultural landscapes, the history of archaeology and archaeological sites, and public engagement with the past.
