FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES

Each student is allocated a Personal Tutor at the beginning of the academic session on whom they can call for advice on academic or other matters.

A new seminar series in cultural heritage, public archaeology, conservation and museum studies is being launched by the Institute's Heritage Studies Section and the Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies.

Institute alumni Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands have been re-living rural life during the Second World War for a new series, Wartime Farm, currently being broadcast by the BBC.  

Research by Mike Parker Pearson and colleagues has unearthed a Bronze Age mystery at the site of Cladh Hallan in South Uist.  

Listed below are the PowerPoint slides for Tuesday's Induction

• SPP_IT_induction_2012.pdf
• SPP_LOCATION_OF_UCL_CAREERS_OFFICE.pdf
• Volunteering_Services_Unit__VSU_.pdf
• Student_Mentoring_Programme.pdf

The Institute will host the Digital Engagement in Archaeology conference on 8-9 November and registration is now open for the event. 

Three new books published in the UCL-IA Palgrave Studies of the Americas series edited by Professor Molyneux: 

Recently-published research by Dorian Fuller and Honorary Research Associate Chris Stevens suggests that Stonehenge may have been built by herders, not farmers.  

Running from the 12th-13th November 2012

For more information please see: Gorman Lectures 12/11/12 and Gorman Lectures 13/11/12

Research by Marcos Martinón-Torres, Andrew Bevan and Janice Li on the terracotta army has recently been awarded British Academy Research Project status.