At the 2025 Annual Meeting at the University of Leicester, BABAO’s fourth Mentorship Award was awarded to Dr Joe Wallace Walser III. What makes Joe’s mentorship stand out is the combination of exceptional scholarly expertise and genuine human kindness, which I think… Read More »BABAO Mentorship Award 2025
Big congratulations to this year’s winners of BABAO’s Research Grants, in their Commercial, Academic and DDOBA schemes! Commercial Grants Academic Grants DDOBA Academic Grant winners are expected to present their research at the BABAO conference within the 2 years following… Read More »2025 Research Grants winners
We wish to extend a very warm welcome to our new Trustee! Becoming a BABAO Trustee is an opportunity to become more engaged in the fields of biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology in the UK, working to steer and support our… Read More »Welcome new Secretary!
We are delighted to announce the call for nominations for the Don Brothwell Award, which celebrates outstanding bachelor’s theses that make significant contributions to the fields of biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology. We welcome submissions of quality and originality across a wide range of… Read More »Nominations open – Don Brothwell Award
Nominations for the BABAO Mentorship Award are open until September 7th 2025 BABAO has established two awards for members, the Service Award and the Mentorship Award. Requests for nominations are in alternate years, with the award being presented at the BABAO Annual… Read More »Nominations for BABAO Mentorship Award 2025 are open!
We are looking for a new Secretary (3 years) to join our Board of Trustees! We would like to invite our members to nominate themselves for the position of Secretary (3 years) within our Board of Trustees. Becoming a BABAO Trustee… Read More »Call for Nomination – Secretary
BABAO, alongside other organisations representing a range of archaeological practitioners, have signed a joint statement on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains from British archaeological contexts, in response to recent publications and parliamentary debate. To know… Read More »Joint statement on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains
Huge congratulations to this year’s winners of the Holger Schutkowski Award for excellence in a master thesis! This year, two outstanding theses scored together at the very top. They are: Each winner will receive £50, a year’s BABAO membership, and the… Read More »2025 Winners Holger Schutkowski Award
We are pleased to share with our members and the wider public our Annual Review for 2024! BABAO Annual Reviews celebrate the news and accomplishments of our members, including scholarly, personal and professional achievements, grant funding, fabulous outreach activities and numerous… Read More »BABAO Annual Review 2024
Earlier this week, a policy brief written by the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) was published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR). A statement taken from BABAO’s Trading and Sale of Human Remains Task Force website was… Read More »BABAO Statement on APPG-AR Policy Brief & House of Lords Debate 13th March 2025
