Research Dialogues

Research Dialogues was launched in 2010 and supports our PhD early career researchers in running workshops, seminars, discussion groups, lectures or research and impact activities.

Up to £500 is offered on a competitive programme to at least two Dialogues a year.

These funded opportunities provide a chance to build UK and international networks and support ECRs in developing their CV and career plans. The events can also raise awareness of and support impact activity, for example How to Build a Dam and Save Cultural Heritage (2012).

A brief summary of the topic is then be written up and posted here on the Department's website towards the end of the year.

A number of former Research Dialogues leaders now hold permanent academic and/or professional archaeological positions. Projects have also led to major publications for the leaders.

Previous Research Dialogues Awardees

(NB. the list below shows awarded events, and variously refers to the award year and/or year of event as recorded, to provide a sense of chronology.)

2010	Spiritual landscapes, architecture and materiality: monasticism as a global dialogue	CHRIS DAVIS
2012	How to Build a Dam and Save Cultural Heritage	MICHELLE DE GRUCHY/EMMA CUNLIFFE
2013	A Thousand Worlds: Network Models in Archaeology	RUNE RATTENBORG
2014	The Body in Early Medieval Society	LISA BRUNDLE
2015	Climate Change & Human Society	FLOOR HUISMAN/EDWARD TREASURE
2015	Little Lives: New Perspectives on Child Health and the Life Course in Bioarchaeology	CLAIRE HODSON/SOPHIE NEWMAN/LAUREN WALTHER
2016	The Family in Past Perspective	ELLEN KENDALL
2016	Recording The Past & The Present: An Interdiciplinary Approach To Research In The Sudan	SAMANTHA TIPPER/ABI TAYLOR
2016	Embodying life and death: The body in Anglo-Saxon England	SIAN MUI/TRISTAN LAKE
2016	Beyond The Trench: Archaeological Pedagogy In A Global World	EMILY HANSCAM/JONATHAN QUIERY/TIMMIS MADDOX/ROBERT MOSHER
2016	Care in the Past	WILL SOUTHWELL-WRIGHT/LINDSAY POWELL
2017	Mind the Gap: Addressing the Evidence-Gap in Evaluating the Social and Economic Contribution of Archaeological/Heritage Sites	ANOUK LAFORTUNE-BERNARD
2017	Materiality Of Maritime Cultures & Connections	KATIE HAWORTH/KELLY CLARKE
2018	Recycling and Reuse in Early Medieval Society	INDRA WERTHMANN
2019	When is a Human Not a Human	ISOBEL WISHER, NATALIE WILKINSON, LISA-ELEN MEYERING
2019	Shaping Stone: Methodology, Materiality & Monumentality	CHRISTINA COWART-SMITH
2021	Across Technologies: what is left to explore in the concept of technological variability? Choices, traditions, identities and ideologies in prehistoric pottery production in Europe and the Mediterranean	MARIA DE FALCO
2021	Is There a Palaeopathologist in the House? Exploring the Applicability of Paleopathological Research to Public Health and Evolutionary Medicine	HEIDI SHAW
2024	Trash and Floors: Microscopic Exploration of Prehistoric Daily Life	SIYU LIN and FELICITAS RUSCHEL
2024	Jealous Laws: a conference on collecting, studying and managing antiquities in the Ottoman Mediterranean during the long 19th Century	PERTEV BASRI and BATUHAN OZDEMIR