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.
Our innovation festivals provide an 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.
Below are links to the recorded sessions from our October 2025 festival.
Festival recordings
Monday
Tuesday
- Deep time – Collective intelligence for nature recovery
- Contributing to flood risk management and flood resilience: looking at what the archaeological record can offer
- Not-so-remote: Application of drone-mounted magnetometry in UK archaeology
Wednesday
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