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’.
| 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 |
