2025 ASHB Conference Registration Now Open! 

This year's conference will be held in in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand from 10-12 December.

Key ASHB 2025 Conference Dates

06 October:    Abstract Submissions Due
20 October:     Conference Registration Due
15 November:  Program Released
09 December: Pre-Conference Social
11 December:   ASB AGM, Conference Dinner

ASHB Conference Format and Awards

Conference Format

The Conference provides a forum for discussing the latest research in human biology and includes presentations from postgraduate students, established researchers, and invited regional and international experts.
Postgraduate students are encouraged to present their research work at the Conference.

Student Presentation Prize

At each ASHB Conference, a student prize is presented in recognition of outstanding achievement in human biology research by a scientist early in their career. The award scheme is intended to stimulate research in human biology in general and to encourage students to present their work at the highest possible level. Learn more here.

Student Presentation Prize Winners

Congratulations to our 2023 Winners:

Podium Presentation Prize Winners
Presentation Title
1st: María Hernaiz-García, Monash University
"Biomechanical relevance of Neanderthal dental anatomy"
2nd: ​Jithya Joshy, University of Queensland
"A discriminant function to assist anatomy school evaluations of alleged medical-teaching skeletons from public sources."
3rd: Emma Sudron, Griffith University
"Stress, nitrogen balance and stable isotope analysis of dentine: a review of bioarchaeological applications."
See our previous student presentation prize winners here.


Past Conferences

2023 Brisbane, Australia
2022 Sydney, Australia
​2021 Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand (online)
2020 Perth, Australia (online)
2019 Canberra, Australia​
2018 Townsville, Australia
2017 Ballarat, Australia
​2016 Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
​2015 Brisbane, Australia

Past Conference Proceedings

https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/documents/ASHB-2021-programme-and-abstracts.pdf
https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/ASHB%202019%20programme%20and%20abstracts.pdf
https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/documents/ASHB-2018-programme-and-abstracts.pdf
https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/documents/ASHB-2017-programme-and-abstracts.pdf
https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/documents/ASHB-2013-sydney-proceedings-and-abstracts.pdf
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