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Company Procurement Mission to the UN in Geneva
Landward Research Ltd were delighted to be part of a United Nations Procurement Company Mission to the UN Organisations in Geneva. Organised by London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in partnership with the Department for International Trade and supported by Enterprise Europe Network, the mission introduced Landward to an extremely valuable range of contacts at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Trade Centre and UNCTAD, together with the UK Mission to the UN at Geneva and the Department for International Development. This has opened up a wide range of new opportunities for the firm, and on the back of this, we will be looking to secure business, particularly to provide…
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Who Works in African Archaeology?
Paper presented by Kenneth Aitchison at SAA Annual Meeting 2018 in Washington DC on April 12th, 2018. Follows on Discovering the Archaeologists of Africa project, after project launch at ICAHM Bagamoyo 2017. Includes first estimate of total number of professional archaeologists working in Africa. Download PowerPoint presentation, with full text as notes.
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Archaeological Market Survey 2017
Landward Research Ltd’s annual Archaeological Market Survey report for 2016-17 has been published. Download Archaeological Market Survey 2017 In financial year 2016-17 commercial archaeology grew in terms of the number of employees working in the sector, but levels of financial turnover decreased and profit levels were unchanged. The sector was not as confident as it had been a year earlier. The majority of businesses in the sector did not expect to expand significantly in the next year (2017-18) (e.g. in premises, vehicles, capital equipment), but they had increased their staff complements (and continued to plan to do further in the next year). While staffing levels were increasing, average levels of turnover (and so turnover per…
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Historic Environment Specialists
Landward Research Ltd are delighted to have been commissioned by Historic England to assess skills needs and other labour market intelligence issues in the fields of buildings history, garden history and archaeological specialisms. These projects will be successors to the Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2010-11 and Atkins 2008 “Identifying Activity and Skills Needs in Buildings History: Final Report”.
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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 Amisfield Walled Garden in 2014. Kenneth Aitchison, Landward Research Ltd's Executive Director, said "We are delighted to welcome Doug as a Director. His skills, knowldge and expertise are what we need as part of the plan to take the company to the next level".
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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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Compare and Contrast
Kenneth Aitchison has recently had an article published simultaneously in Icon News and The Archaeologist, examining the comparable professions of archaeology and conservation through the labour market intelligence produced in the Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession 2012-13 and Conservation Labour Market Intelligence reports. COMPARE AND CONTRAST Kenneth Aitchison examines the similarities and differences between professional archaeology and professional conservation In 2012-13, research was carried out into the UK’s professional labour markets of both archaeology and conservation, two similarly sized and comparable parts of the wider cultural heritage sector. The archaeological research was undertaken by Landward Research Ltd and the conservation study was undertaken by Icon, the Institute of…
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Task Force on Discovering the Archaeologists of the Americas
The Society for American Archaeology‘s Task Force on Discovering the Archaeologists of the Americas, chaired by Kenneth Aitchison of Landward Research Ltd, has completed the first stage of its work by submitting a report and recommendations to the SAA Board of Directors on how labour market intelligence could be gathered for professional archaeology in all the countries of the Americas.
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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 has been compiled which allows trends to be identified with increasing confidence. Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence Profiling the Profession 2012-13 (pdf 4.3Mb) The previous labour market intelligence gathering exercise for the sector (in 2007-08) was undertaken immediately before the effects of significant global and national economic changes began to affect archaeological employment. The economic transformation since…
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State of the Archaeological Market, December 2012
Commercial, applied archaeology grew modestly in the nine months to December 2012. However, a wider data collection exercise has revealed that the size of the entre archaeological sector had been consistently overestimated. The total numbers working in archaeology are considerably lower than had been previously believed. Within commercial, applied archaeology, overall business confidence is improving. Levels of staff turnover are low, and have continued to be lower than reported in previous surveys. Employing organisations continue to consider that people who have left that employer have typically remained in archaeology. Salaries had typically remained unchanged or risen only by inflation in 2012. However, more organisations reported salaries rising by above inflation…
