Theme: Pulling together: collaboration, synthesis, innovation
Date: 25 to 27 April 2018
Venue: Brighton Racecourse
Sponsored by Towergate Insurance.
The theme for 2018 provided an opportunity for heritage professionals to discuss, consider and learn about ways in which the archaeological profession can work together - and with others - to develop innovative and exciting projects that have wide reaching benefit and become ‘greater than the sum of their parts’.
CIfA2018 information
| Wednesday | Breakout sessions |
|---|---|
| Session 1 | Pulling together policies for archaeology in the 21st-century |
| 1.1 | Introduction Steve Trow |
| 1.2 | 21st-century challenges for archaeology Jan Wills |
| 1.3 | What do we need to do and when? Prioritisation and implementation Barney Sloane |
| Session 2 | Whose archaeology is it? Part I |
| 2.1 | Part one Jenny Williams, Maria-Elena Calderon, Kimm Devereaux-West, Brian Kerr, Hugh Corley |
| 2.2 | It's about democracy Neil Redfern |
| Session 3 | Collaborative approaches to managing cultural heritage in challenging landscapes |
| 3.1 | What do we do with those shapes? Tim Yarnell |
| 3.2 | A risky business: reducing risks to scheduled monuments Alison McQuaid |
| 3.3 | From flint head spear to javelin missile Richard Osgood |
| 3.4 | Exmoor Mires and the historic environment: a partnership with the past Martin Gillard |
| 3.5 | Sunlit uplands? Managing moorland archaeology in the Yorkshire Dales National Park Miles Johnson |
| Session 4 | Making the most of the assessment stage |
| 4.1 | A MAP2 thing Duncan Brown |
| 4.2 | Spare us the detail Kasia Gdaniec |
| 4.3 | Post-excavation from a consultant’s perspective Simon Mortimer |
| 4.4 | Modelling landscapes: assessing risk and opportunities at Skeffling Ian Milstead |
| Session 5 | Growing your career from student to post-ex specialist |
| 5.1 | Environmental processing Rebecca NIcholson |
| 5.2 | Careers in Archaeobotany (the study of seeds, chaff and other macroscopic plant remains) Ruth Pelling |
| 5.3 | Geoarchaeology Dave Norcott |
| 5.4 | A career in specialisation Mike Allen |
| Friday | Breakout sessions |
|---|---|
| Session 10 | Heritage and community engagement in action |
| 10.1 | In the bootsteps of their ancestors - experiences from the military community Richard Osgood |
| 10.2 | Hapton's Heritage 2012-2018 Andrew Burn |
| 10.3 | CSI: Sittingbourne - professionals, volunteers and visitors: 2009 - 2018 Dana Goodburn-Brown |
| 10.4 | From headlands to headspace - cultural heritage inspirations in Morecambe Bay Louise Martin |
| 10.5 | Worcester life stories: the rewards and challenges of meshing agendas in partnership Sheena Payne-Lunn and Natasha Lord |
| 10.6 | The Boxfor History Project: working with a new community group in West Berkshire Duncan Coe |
| 10.7 | In search of Mipoundi - community engagement in Congo Paul Wheelhouse |
| 10.8 | Today's youth, tomorrow's archaeologists? The Young Archaeologists' Club Megan Clement |
