The Laila Haglund Prize for Excellence In Consultancy

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 of $500 is awarded for the paper presented at the AAA Annual Conference that makes the best contribution to consultancy in Australia. The decision is made by members of the AACAI National Executive Committee who attend the Conference, and will be handed out at the Conference Dinner.

Previous Winners of the AACAI Laila Haglund Prize
Year Conference Recipients Paper Title
2025 AAA/AIMA – Fremantle Renee McAlister and Jake Ferguson Putting the culture back into cultural heritage management
2024 AAA – Cairns Kate Greenwood with Madonna Thomson and James Bonner of Jagera Daran Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Body Connecting bark and wooden material culture to culturally modified trees in Yagera Country, south east Queensland
2023 AAA – Gold Coast Luke Kirkwood 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 the safer 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 Hamersley 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
Information on Dr Laila B. Haglund

The award has been named after the late Dr Laila B. Haglund in recognition of her immense contribution to AACAI and professional archaeology in Australia.

Dr Laila B. Haglund was 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:

Inaugural President, Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc., 1980-1983
Life Membership, Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc., awarded 2009
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain (RAI)
Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Member, Australian Archaeological Association (AAA)
Member, ICOMOS Australia
Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. (ISAA)

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Read this article about Laila Haglund and the founding of AACAI.