Innovation Festival 2024

CIfA is delighted to confirm that our fifth festival celebrating innovation in archaeology will be held on 7 - 11 October 2024 as a continuing annual online event!

Register now so you don't miss out, a single registration gets access to the full weeks sessions including any recordings to view after the event has finished. 

The historic environment is rich and diverse benefiting from a wide variety of specialisms. Collaborations spanning academic, community-led and developer-funded archaeological research provide fascinating insights to our collective past often with the help of new/adapted ‘innovative’ approaches.

The Innovation Festival will provide the opportunity to showcase and celebrate the innovative practices and approaches being undertaken across the historic environment sector, whilst tabling for wider discussion some of the identified barriers and challenges to implementing innovation in archaeological research. This week-long virtual festival will comprise a mix of short sessions each day including presentations, workshops, opportunities for open discussion, CPD and knowledge transfer. Click here to take a look at some of the session recordings from our previous Innovation Festival.

Timetable

Further details coming soon.

The AGM requires separate registration so please click the link above when live or here to register.

*STUDENT OFFER FOR NON-MEMBERS*

If you're a student but not a CIfA member we have a great offer for you! Register for the festival as a non-member for £45.00 and get free CIfA student membership until the end of the current registration period (31 March 2025). This will give you 6 months of access to lot's of resources and CPD opportunities, for example, e-Learning modules, event recordings and our catalogue of The Archaeologist magazines. In addition you will also be able to benefit from member rates when booking future events. If you're interested, register as a non-member for the event and then email Jen (jen.parkerwooding@archaeologists.net) with your details and your membership will be processed.

Session Descriptions

To be announced.

If you are interested in proposing a session for the festival please email conference@archaeologists.net.