Programme

A summary of the schedule is shown below. For detailed schedules use the tabs under the Programme tab above or click on the dates below.

A full programme book is also available, containing all abstracts.

Thursday 4th January 2024

Morning: Workshop on ITRAX data manipulation and presentation, University of Manchester (advance registration required).

Afternoon: Registration and QRA Annual General Meeting and prize giving, followed by Wiley Keynote Talk and icebreaker reception at Manchester Museum.

Friday 5th January 2024

08:45 - 09:15 Coffee and registraton

09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks

09:30 - 11:00 Session 1: Dating techniques and their applications

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: Stratigraphic records, including annually laminated records (1)

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch 

13:45 - 14:45 QRA Keynote Talk: Professor Inger Greve Alsos, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

14:45 - 16:00 Poster Presentations and Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 Session 3: Detection and analysis of all types of material

19:00 on Conference Dinner, Zouk, Chester St., Manchester

Saturday 6th January 2024

08:45 - 09:15 Coffee

09:15 - 09:45 Session 6: Inclusivity in Quaternary Science (1)

09:45 - 10:45 Session 4: Stratigraphic records, including annually laminated records (2)

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee

11:15 - 12: 45 Session 5: Glaciation in the Quaternary (1)

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:30 Session 6: Inclusivity in Quaternary Science continues with a panel discussion.

14:30 - 16:00 Session 7: Glaciation in the Quaternary (2)

16:00 - 16:15 Closing Remarks.

The conference dinner will take place on the evening of Friday 5th January at Zouk Restaurant, Chester St., Manchester.

We hope to run run two optional activities, depending on the level of interest:

• An ITRAX workshop on Thursday 4th January in The University of Manchester's Geography Laboratories, run by Dr. Tom Bishop.

• A field trip on Sunday 7th January to examine evidence for glacial and post-glacial evolution of the Upper Irwell Valley south of Rawtenstall and Haslingden, followed by a visit to Little Woolden Moss, part of the Chat Moss peat complex. More details on the Field Trip page.