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    Employment in UK archaeology, April 2011

    September 13, 2011 /

    Research undertaken by Landward Research Ltd for FAME and the Institute for Archaeologists has shown that in April 2011, the rate of job losses in archaeology appeared to have slowed, and business confidence was showing very slight signs of improvement. In the first three months of 2011, the number of archaeologists in work increased very slightly (by 0.6% since January – there are estimated to be 5863 working archaeologists in the UK on 1 April 2011, 800 less than at the summer 2007 peak), but further job losses in curatorial local government services are expected and imminent. Looking back, after a serious decline in the number of people employed in…

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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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    Reviews of Archaeology and the Global Economic Crisis

    June 9, 2011 /

    Two recent recent reviews have talked positively about the Archaeology and the Global Economic Crisis, an overview of how the changed economic situation is affecting archaeological practice around the world that was co-edited by Kenneth Aitchison of Landward Research Ltd. Nathan Schlanger, the other co-editor, has had an excellent summary (together with impressive photograph) published in the ICOMOS Heritage at Risk World Report 2008-2010. Download the article here. Secondly, Paul Belford of Nexus Heritage has written in The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice that “This book is essential reading for all archaeologists. Its stated aim is not to provide thedefinitive word on archaeology and the global crisis, but to give…

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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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    Landward Research Ltd at the IfA Annual Conference

    April 12, 2011 /

    Landward Research staff will be attending and contributing to the IfA Annual Conference in Reading from 13-15 April 2011. We will be making making three poster presentations which will be on show at the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology stand.  Doug-Rocks Macqueen’s poster presents a detailed analysis of all the jobs that have been advertised in UK archaeology since 1994 and the trends that these reveal. Kenneth Aitchison has two posters – one on the Survey of Archaeological Specialists project, and the other giving provisional results of the April “state of the market” review of the number of people in archaeological employment at the start of…

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    Job Losses in Archaeology – April 2011

    April 1, 2011 /

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    Job Losses in Archaeology – October 2010 and January 2011

    February 18, 2011 /

    Landward Research have completed a report for IfA and FAME on archaeological employment in the second half of 2010; the full report can be read here – Job Losses in Archaeology October 2010 January 2011 The number of people in archaeological employment fell considerably over the six months from 1 July 2010 to 1 January 2011. It is estimated that on 1 January 2011 there were 5827 people in archaeological employment in the United Kingdom, a fall of 7.6% since July 2010. 3189 of these individuals were working in commercial, applied archaeology, a decrease of 13.1% since July 2010. This figure is 21.0% below the August 2007 peak. There are now fewer…

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    Job Losses in Archaeology – July 2010

    January 18, 2011 /

    A new report on job losses and employment within UK commercial archaeology has been produced by Landward Research Ltd. The report, which is on the situation as it was in July 2010, has been published by the Institute for Archaeologists at http://www.archaeologists.net/sites/default/files/node-files/JoblossesJuly2010.pdf. The number of people in archaeological employment increased markedly over the three months from April to June 2010, with at least one employer finding it difficult to recruit fieldworkers, but simultaneously business confidence in maintaining this growth declined considerably. It is estimated that 6498 people were working in professional archaeology on 1st July 2010, an increase of 265 (4.3%) on the figure for 1st April 2010. 3669 of these individuals were working in…

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