Research Priorities
From its earliest years, the CBA has invested strongly in research support services for the UK archaeological community through its publication programme and latterly through a growing range of web-based resources and services. In addition to its role in facilitating, convening and disseminating the research of others, it has maintained its own programme of research.
The CBA’s track record is principally in applied research to support its programmes in education, public participation and environmental protection. The Defence of Britain and Defence Areas projects (1995-2005) included a major field research programme involving over 600 volunteers across the UK in the recording of nearly 20,000 twentieth-century military sites. Over the last 10 years the CBA has also led research in key areas such as the impact of metal detecting on archaeology, television archaeology and the media, education outside the classroom, and assessment of information and data management needs for archaeology. Its Challenge Fund and the new Marsh Award for Community Archaeology aim to foster and celebrate voluntary research in the historic environment.
Our research themes relate to the CBA’s central aim to increase opportunities for participation and learning through archaeology. Priority areas for research in partnership with HEIs and other bodies in the sector are:
1) Archaeology in the classroom and beyond: developing local and national identities
2) Social outcomes and impacts of community archaeology and conservation projects
3) Adapting archaeology: mediating climate change histories
4) Innovation in managing digital media and serving up archaeological information to a wide audience
The CBA continues to provide research support services through the CBA website, the TORC(Training Online Resource Centre) website, with its online guide to educational and research opportunities, and the extensive programme of publication and electronic dissemination outlined below.
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