Turkey stands at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. The lands within its borders and the surrounding Black Sea region have seen centuries of fascinating history and pre-history. Their legacy: knowledge and lessons of potentially vital importance for all our futures.
The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) is internationally renowned for over 60 years’ work supporting, enabling and encouraging world-class research in Turkey and the Black Sea region in the fields of history, archaeology and related social sciences.Founded in 1947, the BIAA was incorporated in the 1956 cultural agreement between the Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom. The BIAA is one of the British Academy's overseas Institutes. It has offices in Ankara and London, and a dedicated staff of experts from a wide variety of academic and cultural backgrounds.
Turkish Ministry of Culture - Catalhoyuk model for Heritage Site Management Planning in Turkey The
Çatalhöyük Project, led by Professor Ian Hodder, has produced a Site Management
Plan that the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has used as the model for
a new regulation which requires all major sites in Turkey to develop site
management plans. The Ministry has also used the Çatalhöyük model as the basis
for guidelines for the Site Management Plans needed for UNESCO nominated sites.
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British Institute at Ankara - Research Scholarship 2011
Applications are invited for a Research Scholarship tenable for 7 months
(with the possibility of extending for an extra month) from 5 January
2011 and based at the Institute in Ankara. The Research Scholar will
combine working on the electronic records of the BIAA archives and
research collections, and conducting their own research. The subject of
the proposed research should focus on Turkey and/or the Black Sea
littoral and may fall within any of the academic disciplines of the
humanities and social sciences.
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