Big congratulations to this year’s winners of BABAO’s Research Grants, in their Commercial, Academic and DDOBA schemes!
Commercial Grants
- Lucy Koster (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). “The multi-period crouched inhumations of Sedgeford, Norfolk”.
- Ceridwen Boston (Wessex Archaeology). “A possible mastoidectomy from Roman Somerset”.
Academic Grants
- Marta San Millán Alonso (University of Girona). “Sex and age differences in the acetabular shape by geometric morphometrics: implications in human identification”.
- Elizabeth Garnett and Alexandra Strang (Natural History Museum London). “Investigating the genomic history of Iron Age and Roman England using Ancient DNA”.
- Alex Tutwiler (Leiden University). “Cross-Sectioning Child Labour: Assessing activity-related cross-sectional geometric variation in the non-adult skeleton”.
DDOBA Academic
- Varsha Warrier (University of Derby). “Age-at-death and biological sex estimation using the acetabulum: An exploratory investigation using trabecular changes”.
Grant winners are expected to present their research at the BABAO conference within the 2 years following the award (e.g., 2025 grant winners are expected to present at either the 2026 or 2027 conferences). We look forward to hear about your amazing research!