UCL Institute of Archaeology third year student Alex joins the podcast to talk about the placement year he is currently undertaking with us at ASE. We talk about his degree so far, how it prepared him for his year-long introduction to commercial archaeology, and what he’s been up to with us since September! And host Emily spends the whole episode getting increasingly jealous.

Find out more about the BA Archaeology with Placement Year at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/archaeology-placement-year-ba

And you can read about our placement students from previous years in these blog posts:

Neehaarika (2019-2020):

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-south-east/news/2019/sep/ioa-placement-2019-20-welcome-neehaarika

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-south-east/news/2020/feb/ioa-placement-2019-20-boxes-x-rays-and-conservation

Iva (2018-2019):

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-south-east/news/2019/aug/year-commercial-archaeology-student-placement-complete