Session outline

Working in Partnership

Oxford 18 - 20 April

The theme for the 2012 conference will be Working in Partnership – creating effective networks throughout the historic, natural and built environments to maximise resources, increase public benefit and build a stronger sector.

In 2012 the conference includes discussion papers, seminars and training workshops, providing an excellent opportunity to get up to date with current issues effecting all those working within the historic environment sector. Both formal and informal social events provide ample opportunity to carry on debates and discussions when sessions have closed, and to meet up with friends and colleagues, old and new. The conference will kick off with a keynote address followed by the first IfA conference debate; What is the future for Local Planning Authorities and archaeology?

Workshop booking

To avoid disappointment, it is advisable to pre-book training workshop sessions you wish to attend. There will be places available at conference, and available slots can be booked via our workshops noticeboard in the Main Hall. However, as spaces are limited, a space on a workshop cannot be guaranteed without pre-booking.

Download our workshop booking form and email back to Manda at amanda.forster@archaeologists.net to book your place, or print the form and send back to the office.

Download the timetable

• Timetable

The IfA Debate 2012

• What is the future for Local Planning Authorities and archaeology?

Discussion sessions include:

• Engaging communities with archaeology: different approaches
• Promoting cross-disciplinary training
• After Southport: the road to public benefits
• Historic reasons for a natural alliance
• Trenches and Ivory Towers: universities and commercial field archaeology
• Information and Archaeology
• Graphic Images and Visual Communication
• Global Partners: our international heritage obligations
• Heritage Crime: partnerships in practice

Seminars include:

• Where’s IT all going 2?
• Forensic archaeology: partners in crime
• Madness in our Methods? Intersections between excavation methods and recording systems
• Graphic Images and Visual Communication 2

Training workshops include:

Remember - to guarantee your place, we advise you to pre-book training workshops using the form above…

• Everything you wanted to know about geophysics but were afraid to ask
• Setting up a business? A guide to business start up and getting registered
• Construction, Design and Management regulations
• Assessing Significance for Planning Applications
• An introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
• National Occupational Standards and the National Skills Academy: what they can do for you

Booking

Please go to the booking page to book your place.