UCL Institute of Archaeology

The diversity of Institute student research was highlighted in UCL's recent 'Research Images as Art/Art Images as Research' competition.

Heritage Without Borders (HWB) has been awarded a grant by the Headley Trust to support the conservation of cultural heritage in Albania.

The second multidisciplinary conference on 'Popular Antiquities: Folklore and Archaeology' will be held at the Institute on 13 & 14 October 2012. The deadline for the call for papers is 31 May 2012.

Gabriel Moshenska was a runner up for the 2011 UK Scopus Young Research Award in the Humanities.

The Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Clerical Assistant (part-time, Ref.:1229757). The deadline for applications is 2 February 2012.

UCL wishes to appoint a Professor of British Later Prehistory (Ref.:1226450) to contribute to research and teaching at the Institute of Archaeology. The deadline for applications is 17 February 2012.

Ignacio de la Torre's ERC-funded project on the Origins of the Acheulean in East Africa is launched this month and is marked by the unveiling of a new project website.

Institute of Archaeology alumni from the class of 2001 held their 10-year reunion at a specially organised event in central London last term.

Elizabeth Graham was invited to give presentations in Canada last term on different aspects of her Mayan research.

The culmination of the AHRC-funded Reanimating Cultural Heritage project, led by Paul Basu, is marked this week by the opening of a multimedia exhibition at UCL.