It has become a tradition for archaeo-geophysicists to meet in December on Piccadilly Street in London every other year.

It is not the Christmas shopping frenzy nor overpriced biscuits at Fortnum and Mason that attract researchers, but the Recent Advances in Archaeological Geophysics conference, held at Burlington House. The 1-day event from the Near Surface Geophysics Group of the Geological Society attracts speakers from Europe and beyond. This year the presentations were very interesting, and the presented content was of high quality and impact.

The School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford had a particularly strong representation at the meeting this year, delivering two oral presentations and two posters. We are particularly proud of our undergraduate students from the Geophysics Student Research society, who showcased the benefits of collaboration between Community Archaeology group ALERT and Academics in the poster presenting works from Priddy, supervised by Dr Jodie Lewis and Dr Michal Pisz. Our MSc Forensic Archaeology and CSI graduate, Kieron McGowan presented a poster with outcomes of his dissertation project on assessing geophysical techniques for clandestine graves in peat for Moor Murders case, supervised by Dr Michal Pisz. Ben Urmston, a PhD student at Submerged Landscapes Research Centre plunged into the Southern North Sea to present the emerging insights in high-resolution magnetometry over the Dogger Bank. Dr Michal Pisz demonstrated a geophysical ‘sixth sense’ showing how to ‘see dead people’ using cutting-edge 3D GPR technology, using the examples from Nazi German extermination camps, and graveyards.

We hope to see at least the same strong representation of the University of Bradford next year in Ghent, for International Conference on Archaeological Prospection!