Adams completed her PhD in 2014 at the
University of Leicester with a thesis titled "The first brooches in Britain: from manufacture to deposition in the Early and Middle Iron Age". She was a Research Associate at the
University of Bristol from 2014 to 2017. In 2021 she joined the British Museum in her current role. On 30 January 2025 Adams was elected as a
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Select publications • Webley, L. and Adams, S. 2016. "Material Genealogies: Bronze Moulds and their Castings in Later Bronze Age Britain",
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 82, 323–340. • Webley, L. Adams, S., and Brück, J. 2020.
The Social Context of Technology: Non-ferrous Metalworking in Later Prehistoric Britain and Ireland (Prehistoric Society Research Papers). Oxbow. • Adams, S., Martinón-Torres, M., and Webley, L. 2021. "Diversity in Iron Age metalworking: a unique crucible from Westwood, Coventry",
Historical Metallurgy 50(2), 78–84. • Adams, S., Beamish, M., Cartwright, C., and Wills, B. 2024. "The Enderby Bark Shield: A New Model for the Ancient World".
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 90, 205–228. • Adams, S., Craddock, P., Hook, D., La Niece, S., Meeks, N., O'Flynn, D., and Perucchett, L. 2024. "The Pulborough Gold Torc: a 4th to 3rd century BCE artefact of European significance",
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