25 – 29 April 2022
Apex City of Bath Hotel + online
CIfA is delighted to announce that the CIfA2022 conference will be hosted from Monday, 25 April - Friday, 29 April 2022.
Encouraged by the success of our first digital conference in 2021 and the gradual safe return to live events, we intend to offer our 2022 conference as an integrated week-long live and digital conference experience. Our hope is that our hybrid programme will continue to encourage the accessibility of the conference by offering the flexibility to attend online or in person at the Apex City of Bath Hotel, UK.
CIfA2022 will incorporate keynote addresses, wide-ranging sessions and training workshops in an integrated live and virtual forum. Across the week of the conference, we will discuss current professional issues, showcase new developments, and present research in archaeology and the wider heritage sector. Our conference is the premier professional archaeological conference in the UK, attracting hundreds of participants across the heritage environment sector.
CIfA2022 conference programme
CIfA2022 is trialling an entirely digital programme to reduce our conference carbon footprint. Please find the programme linked here.
Theme
Our aim is to explore how archaeologists make a difference: to people's lives, to the practice of archaeology, to the places where we live, work and socialise and to our profession. We want our sessions to showcase great archaeology, to stimulate debate, and to look at where archaeologists are generating new knowledge, understanding and contributing to the big questions of our time.
Recordings
Opening address
- Introduction to 2022 CIFA conference
- So what has archaeology done for us? Thinking about the public value of archaeology
Celebrating 50 Years of archaeological prospection
- Celebrating 50 Years of archaeological prospection: Welcome & introduction to the session
- A geophysical journey: Lord Montegue’s donkey and other stories
- Archaeological prospection in alluvial environments
- The HS2 Phase 1 Central Section high-speed railway corridor
- Sharing common ground – exploring remote and near-surface sensing practices
- Simulating trenches and geophysical survey for archaeological evaluation
- Innovation in Geoprospection: the spatial turn in geochemical analysis
Integrating public benefit, social value and sustainable development goals
- From launch to legacy: maximising public benefit from initiation to research archive
- Articulating heritage value through sustainability
- The value of archaeology in town centre regeneration
- Creating places where people want to live, work and visit: the value of archaeology
- Come follow me: the value of archaeology in Grimsby’s town centre regeneration
- Case study: the role of Priory Gardens in the Dunstable High Street Heritage Action Zone
- The value of archaeology in urban regeneration – the experience in Gloucester
- Valuing the community
Delivering skills and education in a post pandemic world
- To teach is to learn twice: The Archaeological Research Services approach to training
- The Archaeological Research Services Training Academy – structured for success
- Understanding behavioural tendencies to grow the Archaeological Research Services team
- Bridging the skills gap: developing a distance learning training programme for mid-career upskilling
- St Mary’s Field Museum: planning and delivering intrapandemic educational opportunities
- Making the most of the pandemic, for the benefit of maritime heritage
- Collaboration, flexibility and sustainability in engagement
- Back to school for HS2: learning how to unlock virtual engagement for schools during lockdown
The best of the last two years... but has CovID given us an opportunity for communicating archaeology in a better way?
- Croft Gardens – great publicity or just a good site?
- Archaeology at home – using digital communication to build organisational resilience
- PCA, archaeology and COVID
- Running up that hill
- The complete picture: the Rutland villa experience
- Hinton St Mary, Dorset – running a research and training excavation during the coronavirus pandemic
- Either side of furlough – the Giant and the Roman fort
Challenging why and how we do archaeology, and where we might add more value
Pushing boundaries – what are we willing to risk to find a new and better way of working?
- Pushing boundaries–what are we willing to risk to find a new and better way of working? Introduction
- Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others
- Challenge vs opportunity? Changing the way in which we think about development
- Evaluating the evaluations
- It’s a long road to mitigation: how did we get here and where do we want to go next?
- Dig in a void: a mammoth task
- Public benefit is poorly served by development-driven archaeology. It’s time for change
- Pushing boundaries – what are we willing to risk to find a new and better way of working?
In our nature? Providing integrated archaeological advice in a changing world
- In our nature? Providing integrated archaeological advice in a changing world. Introduction
- Novel approach of landscape planning for conservation of archaeological and natural resources
- Adapting to climate change action
- Using artificial intelligence for national mapping of archaeology and landscape features
- Peatland restoration and the historic environment: building sectoral skills in grant-aided....
- Making precision agricultural and archaeological remote and near-surface sensing interoperable....
Cadence
Find out more about the CIfA digital events platform.
Bursaries
In moving to a hybrid format for the CIfA 2022 conference, our aim is that our programme will improve the accessibility of the conference, whilst shielding participants; particularly those who may be at risk or vulnerable, from COVID-19.
To find out more about the bursaries that have been awarded as well as the generous sponsors behind them, please see the bursary page.
Socials
Cadence, our online conference platform, provides a forum for participants to socialise while attending the conference remotely. For those attending in Bath, there will be a drinks reception and optional dinner on Wednesday evening. For further information on the live social programme, please click here.
Travel and accommodations
Travel
Great Western Railways offers £41 return tickets from London Paddington to Bath Spa for conference delegates.
- confirmation of conference attendance is required to purchase this fare
- the conference fares are only available to delegates. You will be asked to produce a confirmation by the train manager
- conference fares are available from most stations on the GWR network
- outbound tickets are fixed, times and dates cannot be changed. The return journey is fully flexible
- conference fares are only available via GWR.com
Accommodation
Accommodation in Bath is varied, but limited. Please book your accommodation soon to ensure you are not left disappointed. We have an accommodation booking site through Visit Bath, but this is by no means a complete list. There are a number of hotels, B&Bs, and hostels. Additionally, Bristol is a 10 minute train ride away.
Terms and Conditions
All registered conference attendees have agreed to fairly rigorous terms and conditions as part of the registration process. These relate to CIfA's anti-harassment policies as well as COVID health and safety. If you need to refresh yourself on the T&Cs, please review them here.
Further information
Please see our conference FAQs for further information. If you have any additional questions or would like any more information on CIfA2022, please don’t hesitate to contact our team on: conference@archaeologists.net Keep up to date with the latest conference news via our eBulletin and on social media: #CIfA2022.
