Sarah Colley FSA is an honorary research fellow in the University of Leicester, school of Archaeology and Ancient History. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011.^[1]

Colley is interested in using modern digital communication technology and applies them to enhance researches in the field of archaeology.^[2] Because of that interest, she is currently working with Penelope Allison on the development of digital research resources in the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project.^[3]

Colley obtained a bachelor of arts in archaeology at University of Southampton in 1977 and graduated with a PhD from the school of archaeology, University of Southampton in 1984. After completing her PhD Colley went on to become a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University on the topic of Australian Aboriginal archaeology.^[3]

She has been a senior lecturer of archaeology at the University of Sydney, and has published articles about teaching archaeology to students in the university level.^[4] As a senior lecturer, she was able to develop teaching and researching programs in Archaeological ethics and theory, Cultural heritage management, public archaeology, Australian Aboriginal pre-history and Historical archaeology. Colley has specialized in studying shells, fish bones and mammals to try and better understand early humans' diets, economies and environmental changes.^[5] She has worked in sites in England, Scotland and south east Australia. She currently manages the Archaeological Fish Bone Images Archive Tables,^[6] Archaeological fish-bone images^[7] and NSW Archaeology Online: Grey Literature Archive.^[8]

• Colley, Sarah (2007). University-based archaeology teaching and learning and professionalism in Australia. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 251. ISBN 978-1588340580.
• Colley, Sarah (2018). "Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain". World Archaeology. 36 (2): 189–202. doi:10.1080/0043824042000260979. S2CID 144410104.
• Colley, Sarah (2014). "Ethics and Digital Heritage". The Ethics of Cultural Heritage. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 13–32. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8_2. ISBN 978-1-4939-1648-1.