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Disco Community 2018
The European Association of Archaeologists‘ Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe Community will meet on 5th September 2018 from 0900 to 1000 at the University of Barcelona Faculty of History & Geography (UB) room UB 206. Agenda of the Meeting Review of why past application (ESRC) was unsuccessful What will be required for a new proposal (Leverhulme) Budget Timetable Preparation Any other ways forward Minutes of Last Year’s Meeting Presentation Accompanying the Meeting
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SAA and Discovering the Archaeologists of the Americas
Jeff Altschul, the President of the Society for American Archaeology, has written about the Discovering the Archaeologists of the Americas project and about Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe in the latest issue of SAA Archaeological Record. While I was traveling, other members of SAA were hard at work. Two long-term survey initiatives are moving ahead. The first is the Discovering the Archaeologists of Americas (DAA) project. This long-term study of the demographics and characteristics of American archaeologists mirrors a similar study in Europe. The Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project has undergone two iterations and now has profiles of archaeologists in 21 countries. At the EAA meetings in Istanbul, Kenny Aitchison, the principal manager of the profiling…
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Discovering the Archaeologists of the World
Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 has shown that measuring archaeologists’ capabilities is a tool that can be used to plan for the development of the profession, development that is necessary to enhance to protection and interpretation of the global archaeological resource. A special issue of Archaeologies: the Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (vol. 10, no. 3) entitled “Discovering the Archaeologists of the World” has been published by WAC, containing two articles by Landward Research Ltd staff. Kenneth Aitchison was the guest editor for this volume, which included five articles, all of which were written by contributors to the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project. Editorial: Discovering the Archaeologists of the…
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Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 – Transnational Report
The Transnational Report of the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 project, which brings together data from all of the 21 national reports published as part of the project, has itself been published. Kenneth Aitchison and Doug Rocks-Macqueen of Landward Research Ltd are two of the co-authors. Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-14: Transnational Report Executive Summary Between 2012 and 2014 representatives from 23 organisations in 21 European countries worked together in the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 project to gain insight into the profile of the archaeological profession and labour market in those countries. The results can be compared with those of a predecessor Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project, undertaken…
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Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-14 at EAA, Istanbul
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Discovering the Archaeologists of the United Kingdom 2012-14
Discovering the Archaeologists of the United Kingdom 2012-14 (Aitchison & Rocks-Macqueen 2014) has been published; textually, this is identical to Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession 2012-13, the cover pages have been updated to allow it to fit neatly into the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-14 series, where 21 comparable national reports are in the process of being published.
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EAA Plzen
Landward Research Ltd were represented at the European Association of Archaeologists' 19th Annual Meeting in Plzen in September 2013. Kenneth Aitchison gave two papers, presenting Oranges are not the only fruit: choice, competition and collaboration between professional associations in the Committee on Professional Associations in Archaeology sesssion The Roles and Benefits of Professional Associations in Europe and Beyond which he also co-chaired, and PhD by Research Publications in What should a PhD in archaeology be all about? He also co-organised the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe – and of the World session.
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Digging in the Crisis
Kenneth Aitchison of Landward Research Ltd and York Archaeological Trust was delighted to present a paper at “Digging in the Crisis“, organised by the Confederazione Italiana Archeologi on 14th March 2013. The History of Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe is a project that looks at employment and training issues in archaeology and which now involves 22 organisations across 20 European states,. This paper will look at the history of the project, where it originated, what the predecessor work was and how the first Disco… project was put together. That project, which gathered and disseminated information for twelve states between 2006-08 was a new approach…
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Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-14
Landward Research Ltd is delighted to be the UK research partner in the transnational Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-14 project. This project, which is being managed by York Archaeological Trust, is examining archaeological employment and barriers to transnational mobility within archaeology across twenty European countries. It is undertaken with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union. It is a successor to the previous Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project which ran from 2006-2008.
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Presentation at Osaka Museum of History
Kenneth Aitchison, the Executive Director of Landward Research Ltd, was honoured to be invited to visit Osaka and to make a public presentation at the Osaka Museum of History to the Kansai Meeting of the Society of Archaeological Studies on the topic of Professional Practice in United Kingdom Archaeology. Download PowerPoint presentation (text in English and Japanese, 18.0Mb): Japkansai This included discussion of the structural and professional differences between archaeological practice in the UK and Japan, and continued into the discussion of the proposed Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project – and how this could be part of a Discovering the Archaeologists of the World, looking at archaeological practice comparatively in many…
