UCL Institute of Archaeology

The third multidisciplinary conference on 'Popular Antiquities: Folklore and Archaeology' will be held at the Institute on 12 & 13 October 2013. The deadline for the call for papers is 28 June 2013. 

The UCL Connections project, involving Institute PhD researcher, Jia Liu, was the winning project at UCL's Digital Humanities prize workshop.

The Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Teaching Fellow in Environmental Archaeology (Ref.:1333179). The deadline for applications is 27 May 2013.

The opening of the new student exhibition, The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships, will be marked by a reception at the Institute this evening.

Dorian Fuller's research project on the evolution of rice systems from China to Southeast Asia, funded by a major new NERC award, has begun at the Institute.

Institute Masters students have been collaborating with London's Geffrye Museum to develop their project on Gardening for Happiness and Well-being.

Interdisciplinary research led by Marcos Martinón-Torres and María Alice Uribe is the subject of a new film to be broadcast in the UK shortly.

Dorian Fuller has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for research on comparative pathways to agriculture, for which three research posts are now available. 

MA Public Archaeology students recently enjoyed a five-day educational trip to Scotland and northern England to gain a wider perspective of Public Archaeology in the UK.