This week I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Connected Pasts workshop and meeting in London, learning about network and complexity science and its application to archaeology and the past. The two days consisted of a three hour workshop introducing and exploring one of a number software packages which can be used to analyse networks… Continue reading Thoughts from Connected Pasts 2014 workshop and meeting
Last month I finished the last major chapter of my PhD. Last year work was slow for a number of personal reasons which made me very, very glad I switched to part-time. This situation also meant I presented at and attended few conferences, which looking back on was a real shame. I really enjoy academic… Continue reading Upcoming Conference, Connected Pasts London 2014
Once again things have been quiet here during the end of 2013 as I've been working on supporting colleagues in Oxford who are producing the 8th edition of the UK Experimental Archaeology Conference. I think it went very well, with the organisers Christophe Snoeck & Chelsea Budd doing a great job and Merton College providing… Continue reading 8th Experimental Archaeology Conference, 2014
The International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA) is a week-long conference that's held biennially. It's the big conference for archaeologists who use scientific techniques to generate data on archaeological sites, objects or issues. This year it was in Leuven, Belgium, and I was extremely pleased to win funding from the UCL Graduate School and the Institute… Continue reading International Symposium on Archaeometry 2012, Leuven Belgium
I’m currently at the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Leuven, Belgium, where I have a poster to present. I’ll be writing a proper conference review when I return, but in the mean time I’ll be making informal collections of the tweets and discussing the conference here on a daily basis. There are also collections… Continue reading ISA 2012 Leuven (Day 3 – Biomaterials and Bioarchaeology)
I'm currently at the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Leuven, Belgium, where I have a poster to present. I'll be writing a proper conference review when I return, but in the mean time I'll be making informal collections of the tweets and discussing the conference here on a daily basis using Storify. The following… Continue reading ISA 2012 Leuven (Day 2 – Metals and metallurgical ceramics)
I'm currently at the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Leuven, Belgium, where I have a poster to present. I'll be writing a proper conference review when I return, but in the mean time I'll be making informal collections of the tweets and discussing the conference here on a daily basis using Storify. The following… Continue reading ISA 2012 Leuven (Day 1 – Stone, Plaster, Pigments, Chronologies).
Wow! I got back from the 6th Experimental Archaeology Conference on Sunday evening, and it's taken a few days for me to collect my thoughts. I was presenting a paper on 'Teaching and learning in Experimental Archaeology' (abstract here), which is one of the reasons I have been quiet recently. Along with proof-reading and chapter-writing… Continue reading 6th Experimental Archaeology Conference, York, 2012
Presenting at conferences is an important part of entering academic society, and grad students are usually encouraged to present their PhD work at least once to a major conference. But before you even get to the stress of writing a presentation, you have to be successful in the scrum that is abstract submission. Considering the… Continue reading Tips on writing an abstract for a conference paper
A couple of weeks ago I was very pleased to find out that my paper had been accepted at the 6th Experimental Archaeology Conference in York, 6th-7th January 2012. Teaching and learning practices are something I've become really interested in, after studying for the HEA qualification earlier this year. During this summer's experimental work I… Continue reading Teaching and learning styles in Experimental Archaeology
Ruth Fillery-Travis 