Well, August has come and gone, and no blog post. This is the first time since I started my blog that I haven't made at least one post per month. It will haunt me forever that 0 posts in the list. The reason August was so busy was largely due to the
Developing International Geoarchaeology conference, which we hosted at Newcastle last week. So whilst I wasn't blogging, I was very busy live-tweeting and generally making sure the whole thing ran smoothly with my event management hat on. Who would have thought the job of an academic also included event management - I know more than I ever thought I needed about coordinating multiple external companies (hiring poster boards, printing, conference badges, a dinner for 70 people...), internal purchasing and booking procedures. Making sure we didn't accidentally leave someone stranded in the middle of nowhere along Hadrian's Wall during the field trip. I don't even know where to start about the papers - we genuinely had a fantastic range of presentations and posters, with some outstanding new research, and a great keynote from
Prof. Jamie Woodward. We are hoping to showcase some of these in a special issue of
Geoarchaeology journal planned for next year.
Doug Rocks-Macqueen will be posting the videos of the talks soon too, keep an eye out - a great to chance to view all the amazing papers even if you weren't able to make it in person!
Well, August has come and gone, and no blog post. This is the first time since I started my blog that I haven't made at least one post per month. It will haunt me forever that 0 posts in the list. The reason August was so busy was largely due to the Developing International Geoarchaeology conference, which we hosted at Newcastle last week. So whilst I wasn't blogging, I was very busy live-tweeting and generally making sure the whole thing ran smoothly with my event management hat on. Who would have thought the job of an academic also included event management - I know more than I ever thought I needed about coordinating multiple external companies (hiring poster boards, printing, conference badges, a dinner for 70 people...), internal purchasing and booking procedures. Making sure we didn't accidentally leave someone stranded in the middle of nowhere along Hadrian's Wall during the field trip. I don't even know where to start about the papers - we genuinely had a fantastic range of presentations and posters, with some outstanding new research, and a great keynote from Prof. Jamie Woodward. We are hoping to showcase some of these in a special issue of Geoarchaeology journal planned for next year. Doug Rocks-Macqueen will be posting the videos of the talks soon too, keep an eye out - a great to chance to view all the amazing papers even if you weren't able to make it in person!
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