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.
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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
- Introduction to Streams 1 & 2
Celebrating 50 Years of archaeological prospection
- Celebrating 50 Years of archaeological prospection: Welcome and 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...