Demystifying ‘Capacity Building’

DEMYSTIFYING 'CAPACITY BUILDING' is a session at the forthcoming CIfA conference 2015, to be held in the Brecon Room, Mercure Holland House Hotel Cardiff at 2.00pm on Thursday 16th April 2015. Organisers: Amanda Feather, Historic England (amanda.feather@HistoricEngland.org.uk) and Kenneth Aitchison, Landward Research Ltd (kenneth.aitchison@landward.eu) 'Capacity Building' is a familiar phrase in the world of development‐aid projects, […]

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 […]

The Historic Environment and Cultural Heritage Skills Survey

Landward Research Ltd is delighted to announce that Creative and Cultural Skills have published The Historic Environment and Cultural Heritage Skills Survey. This report, written on CCSkills and English Heritage‘s behalf (the report will contribute to Heritage Counts 2014) by TBR, together with Landward Research, Pomegranate and Qa Research, presents data on skills issues across […]

Profiling the Profession 2012-13

Landward Research Ltd are delighted to have been appointed by English Heritage to undertake Profiling the Profession 2012-13, a sectoral labour market intelligence project that will update and continue the three previous (1997-98, 2002-03 and 2007-08) studies of employment in archaeology.

The Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2010-11

The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Archaeology is proud to announce the publication of a new report, which can be downloaded, free of charge, from our website using the link below. The Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2010-11 Kenneth Aitchison Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2010-11 This is a major update of the Survey of Archaeological Specialists […]

The Coming Second Wave

Kenneth Aitchison's article on The Economic Crisis and the Coming Second Wave: How the economic situation will affect archaeological practice in universities and government has been published in issue 26.1 of Archaeological Review from Cambridge, a special issue of the journal which had the theme of Archaeology and Economic Crises. This article looked at how the […]