We wish to extend a very warm welcome to our new EDI 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 community.
Each trustee must complete an induction process, which includes completing accredited online training in: Role of a Management Committee; Equality and Diversity; and GDPR and Confidentiality. They will be given a hand-over document, written by their predecessor, which must be maintained and updated throughout their tenure. The trustees typically meet four times a year (within the UK), with at least one of these meetings being in-person, the rest are virtual. All trustee business uses our Google Drive. Trustee activities and behaviours must comply with our Standard Operating Procedures and policies (e.g. GDPR).
EDI Trustee: Anna Freed
Anna is an archaeologist, currently working as an Archives Project Assistant at the Norfolk Records Office. She has an MA in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, and a BA in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge (Newnham College). Her research interests include marginalised histories, with a focus on heritages and archaeologies at the intersection of race and disability. She volunteers as the Museum Ethnographers Group’s Accessibility Officer, an NHS Young Researcher, and a Future Movement Builder with Inclusion London. Outside of research, she loves video games, and tracking her reading on StoryGraph (maybe more than she likes readings sometimes…).
The EDI Trustee will take up their post immediately.
Learn more about BABAO’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Sub-group here.