The Portable Antiquities Scheme

AHRC Research Grants Scheme Project PhD studentship
The Gallo-Roman sigillata (samian) industries

Limit of tenure: Fixed term funding, no renewal. Limit of tenure: 3-year PhD studentship running from 1st October 2008 to 30th September 2011
Professor Michael Fulford, Department of Archaeology, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading has been successful in obtaining research grant [...]

I’ll be adding the conference papers as and when I get access to them.
To recap, here’s the first day’s speakers:
The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s Database: Its Development for Research Since 1998
Unedited proceedings write up
Dan Pett, British Museum
The Portable Antiquities Scheme: the Contribution of Lithics and Lithic Scatters
Clive Bond, University of Winchester
Bronze Age Hoards: Their Contribution to [...]

The Scheme’s Finds Advisers have been discussing research topics amongst themselves and this is what they have come up with. If you want to perhaps take on these topics then you should contact them for a chat. This list is probably not complete but makes use of the database that has been running since 1997. [...]