FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES

Institute alumna Luisa Mengoni has been indulging a passion for porcelain for a new exhibition in her role as Curator of Chinese collections in the V&A's Asian Department.

The Institute of Archaeology is launching a new Heritage Policy Group to provide critical intellectual leadership on issues of domestic and international heritage policy.

Sue Hamilton, who is leading the AHRC-funded Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction project, has been interviewed for the Times about Rapa Nui's (Easter Island's) outstanding creativity with stone.

Congratulations to Miljana Radivojevic who has been awarded the Eila Campbell Scholarship by the British Federation of Women Graduates.

Research undertaken by Margarita Gleba as a Marie-Curie funded Research Fellow at the Institute has recently been published by Oxbow Books.

Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) Research Group - Launched at Citizen Cyber Science Summit 2012. UCL Anthropology’s collaboration with UCL Engineering officially launched at the Royal Geographic Society on February 16^th. Watch talks from leading figures exploring the possibilities of citizen cyber science. The Launch is reported in Nature . Read about it on Andrea Wiggins blog. There a range of reports on talks at http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/

Jago Cooper has been invited to present a paper on the Punctuated Equilibrium of Human-Climate-Environment relationships at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Vancouver.

There is a vacancy in the department for a Lectureship in Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (Ref:1234295).

Andrew Reynolds is one of the authors of the recently-published volume resulting from the construction of the High Speed 1 rail link in Kent.

A significant exhibition of wooden artefacts from the Los Buchillones excavations undertaken by Institute staff in collaboration with the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, is currently on display in Havana.