Emilie Hayter is completing a PhD at University College London on the production, consumption and social perception of architectural stone in Minoan Crete. She received funding from the London Arts and Humanities Research Council (LAHP).

She participated in archaeological fieldwork in the UK, in Cyprus (Kissonerga Mosphilia and Kissonerga Skalia) in the Cyclades (Keros), in the Dodecanese (Karpathos), and on Crete (Porti and Palaikastro).

She was employed as a field archaeologist at the Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford