Collaborating for better research day conference

Date: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 10:00 to 16:30

When

  • Wednesday 24 September 10.00 to 4.30 (tea, coffee and lunch provided)

Where

  • University of Leicester, Room 208, Attenborough, Second floor, Seminar block.

Cost

  • IfA / IfA Archives group / Students £10 (plus £1.25 booking fee)
  • non members £20 (including £1.85 booking fee)
  • unemployed FREE (limited places)

Book

Event flier

  • You can find all the details for the course on the event flier

Content

10:00 – 10:30 Registration and coffee
10:35 – 10:45 Introduction – Natasha Powers, RIG Chair & Emma Dwyer, University of Leicester
Session 1: Using HERs and grey literature for academic research
10:45 – 11:15 Dr Anwen Cooper, University of Oxford - The English Landscape and Identities project: interpreting characterful data on an unprecedented scale
11:15 – 11:45 Dr Martyn Allen, University of Reading – Rural settlement in Roman Britain and the impact of developer-funded archaeology
11:45 – 12:30 Discussion session – Chair, Dan Miles, English Heritage
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
Session 2: How to collaborate
13:30 – 14:00 Nick Cooper, ULAS – Finding Richard III: The Ultimate (but not the last) Collaboration
14:00 – 14:30 David Petts, Durham University - Both sides of the trench: commercial archaeology in an academic environment - the Durham perspective.
14:30 – 15:00 Hal Dalwood, Freelance Archaeologist (formerly Senior Project Manager Worcester Country Council Archive and Archaeology Service) – Reading, writing and arithmetic: A starters guide to aligning archaeological research goals.
15:00 – 15:15 COFFEE
15:15 – 16:00 Discussion session – Chair, Emma Dwyer, University of Leicester
16:30 Close

For abstracts from the speakers please click here