CIfA Conference 2015
The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists’ annual conference – the first for the Institute with its newly Chartered status, will be held in Cardiff from 15th- 17th April 2015. Two sessions are co-organised by Landward Research Ltd staff members: Demystifying ‘Capacity Building’ and The Future of Engagement, and we are also providing videorecording services for ten […]
The Future of Engagement
THE FUTURE OF ENGAGEMENT, a session at CIfA 2015 conference will be held in the Mercure Holland House hotel Cardiff on Wednesday 15th April 2015. Organisers: Doug Rocks‐Macqueen, Landward Research Ltd (doug@landward.org) and Cara Jones, Archaeology Scotland (c.jones@archaeologyscotland.org.uk) In the fiscal year 2013‐14 more jobs were advertised on BAJR and the Jobs Information Service for Archaeology […]
New Director appointed
Landward Research Ltd are delighted to announce that Doug Rocks-Macqueen has been appointed as the company's Director of Analysis, Research and Technology. Doug has already been working for Landward Research Ltd for some time, having contributed to many projects including co-authoring Discovering the Archaeologists of the United Kingdom 2012-14 and leading the community archaeology excavations at […]
Blogging Archaeology
Published by Landward Research Ltd in association with Succinct Research and DIGTECH LLC, launched at SAA 2014 in Austin and edited by Doug Rocks-Macqueen and Chris Webster, Blogging Archaeology is an Open Access i.e. FREE to Read book. You can download it here: Blogging Archaeology. It is a great resource to learn about blogging in archaeology. More […]
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. […]
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 […]
Britain Must Dig Deeper to Save its Archaeology
Doug Rocks-Macqueen of Landward Research Ltd has been interviewed in an article published by The Independent on Sunday. For further information on employment in UK archaeology, please see the Profiling the Profession: Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence 2012-13 report which he co-authored. Britain must dig deeper to save its archaeology We are fascinated by the finds, […]
TACOS
Landward Research Ltd is participating in the TACOS (Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management) seminar hosted by the Council for British Archaeology at the University of York. This seminar is discussing common issues facing the historic environment information sector and make progress towards a shared vision and agenda for historic environment information management. Discussion […]
ScARF Science
The Science panel of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (ScARF) set out an exciting vision for science in Scottish archaeology. The ambition is for archaeological science in Scotland to be a world-leader, achieved through partnership and collaboration, and building on existing strengths and expertise. The vision outlines the need to increase scientific research capacity in […]
Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession 2012-13
Landward Research Ltd publishes UK archaeological labour market intelligence Comprehensive Labour Market Intelligence for the archaeological profession has now been gathered for the fourth time in the series of Profiling the Profession studies. This baseline survey used the same fundamental methodology that was previously employed in 1997-98, 2002-03 and 2007-08, and consequently a time-series dataset […]
