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    Demystifying ‘Capacity Building’

    April 11, 2015 /

    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, but not something that is genuinely well understood away from that sector.   This is not simply 'training' with a different name. It is a well‐defined process that allows organisations to move from an existing state to one of higher capacity, and this session seeks to apply this across the whole profession by focussing on building the capacity of…

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    August 20, 2017

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  • News

    Britain Must Dig Deeper to Save its Archaeology

    July 14, 2014 /

    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, from royal bones to antique gold, but the profession may go under KITTY KNOWLES   Sunday 13 July 2014 From Richard III, the king under the car park, to the Roman skulls and Venetian gold uncovered by London’s Crossrail, British archaeologists have continued to unearth historic finds. But while the UK Festival of Archaeology opened…

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    Breaking New Ground – price reduced

    August 3, 2017

    On the Outside Looking In – what will Brexit mean for European archaeology?

    January 19, 2018

    Market Research Society Best Practice Guide to Buying Research and Insight

    August 20, 2017
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    TACOS

    May 14, 2014 /

    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 on Twitter at https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23TACOS2014 and at https://tacos.etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.JEi7Xru/latest            Video tech services provided by Landward Research Ltd and the University of York.   Download Kenneth Aitchison's PowerPoint – Skills Issues in Information Management and the Use of Technology   

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    On the Outside Looking In – what will Brexit mean for European archaeology?

    January 19, 2018

    ANHER presentation at HERMA conference

    January 27, 2017

    SAA in Vancouver

    March 29, 2017
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    The Historic Environment and Cultural Heritage Skills Survey

    November 14, 2013 /

    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 the broad cultural heritage sector and presents a detailed understanding of the issues facing employers and their workforces across the UK. The project researchers spoke to over 1,000 organisations within the sector in order to provide a detailed understanding of some of the critical skills issues facing their workforces. The report’s key findings include Skills…

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    UK Commercial Archaeology will not see an infrastructure jobs boom

    January 8, 2018

    Secrets of the High Woods – Heritage Assets in Forestry Management

    August 1, 2017

    Transnational Mobility

    September 7, 2018
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    Profiling the Profession 2012-13

    April 4, 2012 /

    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.

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    Archaeological Market Survey 2017-18

    March 15, 2019

    David Connolly joins Landward Research Ltd

    November 1, 2018
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    Public Engagement in Development-led Archaeology: a Survey

    January 15, 2021
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    The Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2010-11

    June 20, 2011 /

    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 undertaken in 2000. This survey was commissioned jointly by the Higher Education Academy’s Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology and English Heritage, and the research was undertaken by Landward Research Ltd. The current report synthesises data from 235 individual responses to a survey of current specialists undertaken in Spring 2011.  This report examines the contemporary…

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    The Economic Crisis and the Coming Second Wave – how the economic situation will affect archaeological practice in universities and government

    June 15, 2011 /

    An article by Kenneth Aitchison, Landward Research's Executive Director, has been published in Archaeological Review from Cambridge. Click on the image of the first page below to open the whole article as PDF.    

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    Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2016-17

    July 27, 2017

    Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2016-17

    July 27, 2017

    Secrets of the High Woods – Heritage Assets in Forestry Management

    August 1, 2017
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    The Coming Second Wave

    May 27, 2011 /

    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 economic situation is affecting university and state-funded archaeological practice and how it will continue to affect those sectors in the near future.

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    Development-Led Archaeology in Scotland and Covid-19

    August 4, 2020

    Chief Executive for Landward Research Teoranta

    April 26, 2019

    Archaeological Market Survey 2017-18

    March 15, 2019