Innovation festival
Due to the success of our first Innovation Festival, CIfA is delighted to confirm that our second festival celebrating innovation in archaeology will be held on 11 - 15 October 2021 as a continuing annual event!
The historic environment is rich and diverse benefiting from a wide variety of specialisms. Collaborations spanning academic, community-led and developer-funded archaeological research provide fascinating insights to our collective past often with the help of new/adapted ‘innovative’ approaches. However, implementing innovation is not always straightforward as highlighted in a recent project undertaken by CIfA in collaboration with ALGAO (funded by Historic England). This project highlighted the issues and potential barriers being faced by archaeologists trying to embrace innovation, especially in the commercial sector, and which will form discussion themes throughout the festival.
The innovation festival will provide the opportunity to showcase and celebrate the innovative practices and approaches being undertaken across the historic environment sector, whilst tabling for wider discussion some of the identified barriers and challenges to implementing innovation in archaeological research. This week-long virtual festival will comprise a mix of short sessions each day including presentations, workshops, opportunities for open discussion, CPD and knowledge transfer. Click here to take a look at some of the session recordings from our January Innovation festival.
Festival programme
Your registration will now register you for the entire festival - allowing you to log into our virtual festival platform and instantly join each session at any time without waiting for emails or Zoom links.
Click here to view the full festival programme with papers and abstracts
To find out more about the virtual events platform that we'll be using for the festival, including demonstration videos and 'how to guides' - please click here.
If you have registered for the festival and haven't received your login information or if you're experiencing any issues with accessing our conference platform, please contact us via: conference@archaeologists.net
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Marine Monday, 11 October 2021 |
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| 10:00am - 1:00pm (BST) | Technology and methodology in marine archaeology Presented by:
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| 2:00pm - 5:00pm (BST) |
Innovation underwater: improving the accessibility of marine heritage
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Tuesday, 12 October 2021 |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm (BST) |
Dendrochronology in Scotland: applications and innovations in archaeology, buildings, landscape and climate studies Presented by: |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm (BST) | CIfA Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting will be held at 12:30pm on Tuesday 12 October via Zoom. Booking details for this will be released closer to the meeting date, and all members are invited to attend. |
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Wednesday, 13 October 2021 |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am (BST) | Virtually engaged – using 2D animation and virtual reality to enable access to heritage Presented by:
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| 2:00pm - 5:00pm (BST) |
The power of 3D in cultural heritage management Supported by:
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Thursday, 14 October 2021 |
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| 10:00am - 1:00pm (BST) |
Digital or divisive? Stratifying the sector Presented by:
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| 2:00pm - 4:00pm (BST) |
Archaeological innovation across Wales Supported by:
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Friday, 15 October 2021 |
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| 10:30am - 11:15am (BST) | Discussion: Defining and implementing innovation in developer-led archaeology
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| 2:00pm - 4:00pm (BST) |
Celebrating early careers and academic research - what's new?
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To view our full festival programme and further information, please click here
| Standard event registration (GBP) | |
| CIfA member | £ 5.00 |
| Non member | £ 25.00 |
| CIfA event bursary recipient | £ 0.00 |
| Standard event registration (GBP) | |
| CIfA member | £ 5.00 |
| Non member | £ 25.00 |
| CIfA event bursary recipient | £ 0.00 |
