Annual Conference


CIfA2025 - Shaping the future (of our profession)

30 April & 1 May 2025
Millenium Point, Birmingham
+ post-conference online recordings


CIfA2025 is sponsored by Towergate Insurance

CIfA is delighted to announce that the CIfA2025 conference will be hosted over Wednesday 30 April & Thursday 1 May 2025.

We are hosting CIfA2025 as an in-person conference, hosted live in Birmingham, UK and there will be post-event online recordings also available.

There will be two full days of engaging content incorporating keynote addresses, wide-ranging sessions and training workshops in a live in-person environment.  If you are not available to attend in-person, do not worry you will have the option to watch the recorded content in your own time.

What to expect? 

The CIfA 2024 conference identified the need for collaboration to navigate these challenges. The theme for CIfA 2025 takes this a step further where we are aiming to host sessions which showcase co-creation, partnership, and the benefits of cross-disciplinary working, and how projects and initiatives are considering the needs of future generations, changing the way we do things and ensuring the archaeological profession is fit for the future.

Our conference is the premier professional archaeological conference in the UK, attracting hundreds of participants across the heritage environment sector.

Call for sessions

The call for sessions for CIfA2025 is now open! We ask members to submit sessions to be reviewed by a panel of their peers.

Not all sessions have to be linked directly to the theme – please do consider proposing a session if you have an idea but it doesn’t sit entirely within the theme.  You may wish to submit a 1 hour session as a single speaker on one of your own papers or as a session organiser with a view to creating a 3 hour session with a number of contributors/papers/speakers.  We are open to all types of sessions and encourage a variety, we will do our best to create a varied programme offering.

Learning from our experience at CIfA2024, the CIfA2025 will be hosted live in Birmingham, UK and recorded but will NOT be livestreamed. Full details will be made available to accepted sessions for appropriate planning.

Please submit your initial session proposals by 8 November 2024 using the link below. If you have an idea but are unsure how it might fit into the theme, please email conference@archaeologists.net

SUBMIT YOUR SESSION PROPOSAL

Bursary information

Bursaries are not yet open for accepting applications. We will have a number of bursary options available to assist with the cost of registering or attending CIfA2025. Our bursary page will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect the available bursaries for CIfA2025.

Sponsorship & exhibitor applications

We are now accepting bookings for sponsors and exhibitors within our exhibition hall. We look forward to welcoming our exhibitors back in full force to the CIfA conference.

Brochure and booking forms should be available in the coming days.

Registration fees and deadlines

 

Live in Birmingham

 

Online Recordings only

  Early bird
(until 31 January)
Late registration
(from 1 February)
  Early bird
(until 31 January)
Late registration
(from 1 February)
CIfA member - 2 day conference £240 £250   £100 £110
CIfA member - 1 day conference £120 £125   N/A N/A
Student/unwaged - 2 day conference £100   £50
Student/unwaged - 1 day conference £60   N/A
Non-member - 2 day conference £370 £390   £180 £190
Non-member - 1 day conference £195 £200   N/A N/A

 

Accommodation

CIfA will be working with our host city to provide accommodation rates for our delegates, so we will have a link for conference accommodation available soon. The rates and availability is limited, so book your place early, otherwise Birmingham has a range of accommodation centrally to suit all budgets.

Further information

Please see our conference FAQs for further information; this page will be updated as the conference approaches. If you have any additional questions or would like any more information on CIfA2025, please don’t hesitate to contact our team on: conference@archaeologists.net Keep up to date with the latest conference news via our eBulletin and on social media: #CIfA2025.

Past conferences

Our annual conference has been held since CIfA formed in 1982. A list of recent conferences is shown below with links to the conference programme or (for more recent events) the conference webpages.

Harassment

CIfA is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, nationality, education, experience, career or speciality. By registering to attend CIfA you confirm you have read our CIfA online conference harassment page and understand that any form of harassment, discrimination and bullying is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

Accessibility

CIfA aims to be as accessible and inclusive as possible and further information on online conference accessibility can be found here. If you have any requests or suggestions for how we can make the conference more accessible for you, please do get in touch at conference@archaeologists.net.