AACAI is committed to encouraging professionalism and excellence in archaeological consultancy. To this end, AACAI established The Laila Haglund Prize for Excellence in Consultancy to recognise outstanding contribution to consultancy in Australia. The prize is awarded for the paper presented at the AAA Annual Conference that makes the best contribution to consultancy in Australia. The award has been named after Laila Haglund in recognition of her considerable and ongoing contribution to AACAI and professional archaeology in Australia.
| Year | Conference | Recipients | Paper Title |
| 2023 | AAA – Gold Coast | Luke Kirkwood, EMM Consulting | The Failure of the Experiment: State-Based Heritage Legislation and the Case for National Reform |
| 2022 | AAA – Darwin | Caroline Spry, Brian Armstrong, Neil Ingram, Alice Williams, James Williams, Greg Ingram, Ian (Doug) Sutherland, Yarruwala Ngullubul Men’s Corporation, Central Tablelands Local Land Service and Lawrence Conyers | Investigating Wiradjuri carved trees (dendroglyphs) and symbolic burial practices in the central Tablelands, southeastern Australia |
| 2020 | AAA – online | Aimee Henderson | Home is where the knowledge is: An investigation of Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) to provenance, enrich and manage material culture items |
| 2019 | AAA – Gold Coast | Birgitta Stephenson | Getting it out in the open: residue reveals of past resource use’ in the ‘Open Site Archaeology |
| 2017 | AAA – Melbourne | Ian Ryan | An attempt to establish a framework for assessing surface artefact scatters in the Pilbara region of Western Australia |
| 2016 | AAA – Terrigal | Oliver Brown | Hidden Middens: Three case studies of archaeological sites bound up in disturbance and all thesafer for it |
| 2014 | AAA – Fremantle | David Collard | Rage against the machine: The pros and cons of mechanical test excavation |
| 2013 | AAA/ASHA – Cairns | Ryan Hovingh, Ross Stanger and the Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation | The Warrawandu Walking Trail Project |
| 2012 | AAA – Coffs Harbour | Doug Williams, Phil Hughes and Marjorie Sullivan | Out in the Open: Excavation of Open Artefact Scatters in the Pilbara |
| 2011 | AAA – Wollongong | Colin Pardoe | Door Meten tot Weten: Knowledge Through Measurement, or Measure ‘Til You Die |
| 2010 | AAA – Toowoomba | Alyssa Gilchrist, Paul Irish, Sharon Lane and Jim Wheeler | Dumbing-Down: The Push Towards Prescription and What this Means for the Future Direction of Archaeological Consulting |
| 2009 | AAA – Batemans Bay | Richard Fullagar, Michael Slack, Paul Carr, Brian Jones and Penny Williamson | Aboriginal Tool Stone of the Central Hammersley Range, Pilbara, Northwestern Australia |
| 2008 | AAA – Noosa | Oliver Macgregor, Alex Mackay, Phil Hughes and Marjorie Sullivan | Issues Concerning the Identification of Flaked Stone Artefacts in a Material-Rich Context |
| 2007 | AAA – Sydney | Luke Godwin | The Concept of Harm and the Application of the Duty of Care Guidelines in Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Legislation |
| 2006 | AAA/AIMA/AAMH/AACAI/ASHA – Melbourne | Daryl Guse and Richard Woolfe | Communities of Confidence: Documenting Indigenous Land-Use and Settlement Patterns from Rock Art Distribution in Western Arnhem Land |
| 2005 | AAA/AIMA – Fremantle | Bill Jeffery | Chuuk Lagoon’s World War II Underwater Heritage Sites: Considering this Global Heritage from Different Viewpoints |
| 2004 | AAA – Armidale | Garry Lord, Skye Kidd and Ken Markwell | The Brewarrina Fishtraps, Ngunnhu |
| 2003 | AAA – Jindabyne | Anthony J. Barham, Kel Lambkin, Richard Fullagar, Jo McDonald and Beth White | First Steps into the Mire”: The Stratigraphic, Chronological and Broader Methodological Significance of New Evidence for Late Holocene Aboriginal Occupation of Wetland Margins at Wingecarribee Swamp, Burrawang, NSW |
| 2002 (joint award) | AAA/AIMA/ASHA – Townsville | Tracey Ireland and Jane Lydon | History and Hope: Community Expectations and Heritage Management Issues for the Blacktown Native Institution Site |
| 2002 (joint award) | AAA/AIMA/ASHA – Townsville | Luke Godwin, Peter Madden and Scott L’Oste-Brown | The Anthropology of Artefacts: Aboriginal Perceptions of the Archaeological Record in Northwest Queensland |
| 2001 | AAA – Hervey Bay | Luke Godwin, Scott L’Oste-Brown, Bob Ellis and Mike Morwood | Burials and Bundles in Central Queensland: Dates and Thoughts on Cultural Continuity and Native Title Rights |
Dr Laila B. Haglund is an Adjunct Senior Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Qualifications:
Studied Latin, Greek and Classical Archaeology at the University of Lund, Sweden.
Certificate in Conservation, University of London
Postgraduate Diploma in Prehistory, University of London
MA, University of Queensland
Filosofie Doktor (Prehistory), University of Stockholm
Awards and Professional Activities:
Life Membership, Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists, awarded 2009
Full Member, Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. (AACAI)
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain (RAI) Member, Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Member, Australian Archaeological Association Inc. (AAA)
Member, ICOMOS Australia
Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. (ISAA)
For more information, please visit this page.
Read this article about Laila Haglund and the founding of AACAI.
The AACAI Student Support Fund was established in 2010 to provide financial assistance to Honours and coursework Masters students engaged in research that directly contributes to consulting archaeological practice. Since then we have distributed $66,198 to 37 recipients.
AACAI provides a seed fund each year, with the remainder being generously donated by archaeological consultants. The Fund is managed by a subcommittee of the Association with applications assessed in a regulated process. They are awarded close to the start of the academic year.
Students are able to spend the money in the way that they decide is appropriate, either to support research costs or to assist with living expenses. No receipting of expenses is required; however, the recipient is requested to acknowledge AACAI (and the donor in cases where they have contributed an entire award) in their thesis and any published material resulting from the research. Publication of an abstract in the AACAI journal is also requested, along with a blog post.
Over the years, a number of AACAI-supporting consultancies have generously donated to the Student Support Fund as follows: Comber Consultants, Extent Heritage, Jem Archaeology, Ochre Imprints, Thomson Cultural Heritage Management, Virtus Heritage, Vivienne Wood Heritage Consultant, Wallis Heritage Consulting, Archae-aus, Archaeological Management and Consulting Group, Everick Heritage Consultants, North Queensland Heritage, Artefact Heritage Services, Huonbrook Environment and Heritage, Ironbark Heritage and Environment and Alpha Archaeology.
| Year | Name | University | Project |
| 2022 | Samantha Cranwell | James Cook University | Analysing the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (Qld) 2003: How effective has this legislation been in protecting Aboriginal cultural heritage? |
| 2022 | Juan Alejandro Marquez Lopez | Flinders University | Chasing Narnooroo: An overview of cultural relevance and occupation patterns in the Upper Murray River Gorge, South Australia |
| 2022 | Jarrod Van der Weide | University of Western Australia | Identifying and Mitigating the Risk of Recreational Disturbance to Recently Identified Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Sites in Wandoo National Park, Western Australia |
| 2022 | Keeley Wood | Griffith University | From Past to Present: A Study of Photographic Records of Rock Art in Southeast Cape York Peninsula |
| 2021 | Ruby Todorovski | University of Queensland | Internationalising Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Study of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention and Postcolonial Nations |
| 2020 | Aimee Henderson | Griffith University | Ancient DNA to Provenance, Revitalise and Repatriate Material Culture |
| 2020 | Cameron Neal | University of Sydney | On the top of a mountain I saw the figure of a man: An analysis of the relationship between sensory perception and the engraved art of the Sydney-Hawkesbury region using GIS and the concept of afffordances |
| 2020 | Jacqueline Turner | University of New England | In the Groove: Evaluating precolonial Aboriginal mobility in the New England Tablelands using non-destructive pXRF of stone artefacts from excavations of the Gostwyck Grinding Groove site |
| 2019 | Emily Martin | University of Western Australia | The exploration of underfloor deposits relating to drug use: Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle WA |
| 2018 | Christopher Clark | University of Queensland | Handling the Heritage of a Non-Event: The Heritage Management of Brisbanes Air-Raid Shelters |
| 2018 | Caroline Hawker | La Trobe University | A technological analysis of tachylite assemblages from Dja Dja Wurrung country |
| 2018 | Alexandra Seifertova | University of Sydney | Landscape and its role in the detection of sites in the central lowlands of the Hunter Valley and the Cumberland Plains |
| 2018 | Helena van der Riet | University of Western Australia | The archaeology of the Japanese occupation of Christmas Island (CI), Indian Ocean, between 1942 and 1945 |
| 2017 | Lauren Louise Churchill | University of Sydney | Foodways in regional New South Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: A study of butchery patterns |
| 2017 | Rodina Goranitis | University of Queensland | Doing it right: Best practice standards in cultural heritage management |
| 2017 | Rebekah Hawkins | University of Sydney | Exploring the relationship between raw material and morphology in a lithic assemblage from Lake George NSW: A close look at backed artefacts and core production and their connection to raw material |
| 2017 | Jacinta Koolmatrie | Flinders University | Adnyamathanha Yura Malka |
| 2017 | Liam Norris | Australian National University | Analysis of the Guerrilla Bay and Rosedale middens, Tomakin, NSW |
| 2016 | Lara Tooby | University of Sydney | Shell monuments: What can shell deposits in Ballina reveal about socio-cultural processes of the past? |
| 2016 | Karen Horn | University of Western Australia | Paint recipes: Can near infra-red analysis detect anthropogenic organic materials added to ochre to make paint? |
| 2016 | Lorna Cooper | University of Western Australia | An archaeology of the dynamic physical and social landscape of Gallop House, WA: Using geospatial and geophysical techniques to interrogate archival resources within a historical archaeological and heritage management context |
| 2016 | Sarah Slater | James Cook University | Exploring a novel site expression of Polymesoda erosa in the archaeological record of the South Wellesley Islands |
| 2015 | Emmy Frost | La Trobe University | Investigating Indigenous occupation and subsistence strategies at a late Holocene marine shell midden in south-western Victoria |
| 2015 | Anna Kreij | James Cook University | Modified landscapes: High-resolution LiDAR mapping and analysis of Indigenous fishtraps |
| 2015 | Lee Sheppard | University of Queensland | Cultural heritage offsets in the mining industry |
| 2014 | Adrian Mollenmans | Flinders University | An analysis of Aboriginal fish traps on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia |
| 2014 | B’geela Romano | University of Western Australia | Managing graffiti and other inscriptions at Fremantle Prison UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| 2014 | Paul Smithson | University of Western Australia | Scratching the surface: A comparitive assessment of a surface stone artefact concentration at a multi component Aboriginal archaeological site from the Weld Range, Western Australia |
| 2013 | Charlotte Feakins | University of Sydney | From hideouts to hangouts: Materialising myths at buffalo bush camps on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park |
| 2013 | Katie Woo | University of Queensland | The effect of sample size on the analyses of faunal assemblages |
| 2013 | Texas Nagel | James Cook University | Using foraminifera to refine understandings of archaeological site formation processes: A case study from Thundiy, Bentinck Island, Southern Gulf of Carpentaria |
| 2012 | Yinika Perston | University of New England | Assessing ‘ad hoc’ lithic technologies in Australasian archaeology |
| 2011 | Tamika Goward | University of Sydney | Flaked glass in the Sydney region |
| 2011 | Elyse Beck | University of New England | Evaluation of PXRF for rapid on-site artefact characterisation: A case study using coarse ware ceramics from Central Anatolia |
| 2011 | Rebecca Andrews | University of Sydney | Memorials in carved stone |
| 2010 | James Smith | University of Queensland | The role of the Burra Charter in structuring Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage management practice |
| 2010 | Melissa Hetherington | Australian National University | A scattered landscape: Analysis of the shell middens EU-IC-ASM-0862 and EU-IC-WAM-0847 South to investigate coastal resource use on Mainland Infrastructure Corridor, Pilbara, Western Australia |
Lifetime membership is granted to AACAI members who are distinguished individuals recognised for their life-long contributions to the Association. They are nominated by current members and recognised by AACAI governance.
The inaugural Lifetime Membership of AACAI was awarded to one of its founding members, Dr. Laila B. Haglund at the University of Queensland in 2009. Since then, nine other AACAI members have also been awarded Lifetime Membership.
Lifetime Membership Guidelines
Life Membership may be offered from time to time to AACAI members.
Considerations to be taken into account for such offerings may include, but not necessarily be limited to, such factors as:
- (a) Length of membership;
- (b) Type of membership (i.e. Full or Associate);
- (c) Length of Service to the Association (either on the NEC, State Chapters or other Committees or roles);
- (d) Contribution to the Archaeological Heritage Industry
Nominations for life membership may come from the membership (in writing to the NEC), or be proposed by a member of the NEC.
Nominations for life membership will be considered on a case by case basis by the NEC at their bi-monthly meetings.
In their consideration of Life Membership nominations the NEC will take into account the proportion of members who fall into the Life Membership category, so as to ensure the latter remains a reasonably small proportion.
Those members offered life membership will be advised of their new status by the President following an NEC decision. In addition, an announcement will be sent out to the membership, and the new status will be noted in the Membership Secretary’s annual report to be submitted at the AGM.
A ‘Life Members’ category will be added to the AACAI website to accommodate these members (who will also continue to appear in the other sections of the website membership pages, i.e. If they are a Full Member they will appear in both the Full Member and Life Member listings).
All decisions will be at the discretion of the NEC and the NEC decision is final.
List of Lifetime Membership Awards
| Year | Name |
| 2009 | Dr. Laila B. Haglund |
| 2010 | Prof. Jo McDonald |
| 2017 | Prof. Richard Fullagar |
| 2017 | Peter Kuskie |
| 2017 | Dr. Colin Pardoe |
| 2017 | Prof. Peter Veth |
| 2017 | Elizabeth White |
| 2017 | Tessa Corkill † |
| 2017 | Mary Dallas † |
| 2020 | Prof. Richard Mackay |
