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
At the 2024 Annual Conference, BABAO’s third Service Award was awarded to Dr Rebecca Redfern. I would like to nominate Rebecca Redfern for the BABAO Service award for all the work and time that she has graciously given in support of BABAO.… Read More »BABAO Service Award 2024
We would like to invite you all to the second talk in our student seminar series Inside Out: Conversations on Bioarchaeology, this time led by one of our student members Hilary Gross-Mackay. The presentation, titled ‘A Comparative Study of the Health of… Read More »2nd Student Talk next week!
The current call for trustees includes Grants Secretary (3 years), Outreach Officer (3 years), Representative from a Professional Organisation (3 years), and Membership Secretary (5 years) We would like to invite our members to nominate themselves for four amazing positions within… Read More »Call for BABAO Trustees
