The Lisa Lodwick Conference Bursary Scheme

Dr Lisa A Lodwick (1988 – 2022) was an archaeobotanist, archaeologist, and a long-standing member of the AEA. She was a champion of diversity in academia, particularly robust in her support of women, early career researchers, and of open access research principles. She was a well-regarded figure in the field of the archaeology of Roman and prehistoric Britain and Europe, and was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal; she was also an active collaborator within the WikiProject Women’s Classical Committee.

Lisa was a prodigious scholar and practitioner. She received a First from the University of Oxford and the Meyerstein Award for best overall performance at undergraduate level; a Distinction at Master’s; and was awarded her DPhil by St Cross College, Oxford. She held a post-doctoral position at the University of Reading, where she was heavily involved with the Roman Rural Settlement Project (https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/romangl/) and the long-term project at Silchester (https://research.reading.ac.uk/silchester/). She was awarded a further post-doctoral fellowship by All Soul’s College, Oxford, and had recently been appointed as a lecturer in environmental archaeology at the University of Cambridge at the time that she passed away.

Lisa’s passion for inclusion and diversity in the pursuit of archaeology was reflected in her will, which included a bequest to the AEA. We wish to honour her memory and ideals by ensuring that students and early career researchers are given better opportunities to attend AEA conferences and to benefit from the networking opportunities and research outreach platform that they provide. It is with immense gratitude and fond memories that we therefore announce the Lisa Lodwick Conference Bursary, and encourage applications from members with limited alternative sources of funding (particularly postgraduate students, and those in the private sector), and those presenting papers or posters. 

Obituary: https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/lisa-lodwick-1988-2022 

Selected papers:

Lodwick, L. 2019 Agendas for Archaeobotany in the 21st Century: data, dissemination and new directions, Internet Archaeology, 53. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.53.7

Lodwick, L. 2019 Sowing the Seeds of Future Research: Data Sharing, Citation and Reuse in Archaeobotany, Open Quaternary, 5(1), p. 7. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.62.

Lodwick, L. A. 2018 Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain. Veget Hist Archaeobot, 27, 801–815. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-018-0674-y. 

Lodwick, L. 2014 Condiments before Claudius: new plant foods at the Late Iron Age oppidum at Silchester, UK. Veget Hist Archaeobot, 23, 543–549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-013-0407-1.