To honour the work of its longstanding chair Nick Ryan, CAA International supports the annual Nick Ryan Bursary Award. The Nick Ryan Bursary recognises the best student paper presented at the annual conference. The award, which is a maximum of 1,000 Euros, supports the winner’s expenses to attend the next CAA conference.
Applying for the Nick Ryan Bursary
Students presenting papers at CAA’s annual conference may apply to be considered for the Nick Ryan Bursary during the abstract submission process. The next opportunity to submit for the Nick Ryan Bursary will be in conjunction with the CAA2025 conference to be held 5-9 May in Athens, Greece. The call for papers for the conference will open in September of this year.
Each abstract submitted for consideration for the Nick Ryan Bursary is assessed by the Scientific Committee as part of the conference review process. The Scientific Committee chair works with the Bursaries and Student/Low-Income Officer to review all of the submitted abstracts and to select the top eight proposals to become part of the Nick Ryan Bursary session.
Authors of the papers chosen will be asked to submit a video of their paper presentation approximately two weeks before the start of the conference. The videos will be assessed by a panel consisting of members of the Scientific Committee, Executive Steering Committee, and/or local organising committee. Authors selected for the Nick Ryan Bursary session will still present their papers in-person in the session for which they were accepted. The winner of the Nick Ryan Bursary award will be announced at the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Nick Ryan Bursary Recipients
CAA2024 Nick Ryan Bursary Award
The winner of the 2024 Nick Ryan Bursary Award was Amy G. Hatton for her paper entitled “Spatial analysis of monumental Neolithic ritual landscape of north-western Saudi Arabia”.
Previous Nick Ryan Bursary Winners
CAA2023: Giacomo Fontana
CAA2022: Joseph Lewis
CAA2021: Anastasia Nikulina
CAA2019: Benjamin Hanussek
CAA2018: Heather Christie
CAA2017: Samantha Thi Porter
CAA2016: Iris Kramer
CAA2015: Chiara Piccoli
CAA2014: Iza Romanowska
CAA2013: Ben Davies
Questions?
If you have any questions about the Nick Ryan bursary, please email the Bursary and Student/Low Income Officer.