Listen to me! Lobbying for archaeology
An article by Kenneth Aitchison, updating a paper given at the EAA 2018 conference in Barcelona, has been published as an ‘early view’ in Archäologische Informationen. Read the article here https://dguf.de/fileadmin/AI/ArchInf-EV_Aitchison.pdf
Report on Green Skills survey of 1,750 participants published
The second report for the Green Skills at Vocational Education and Training project published today by Landward Research is a Quantitative analysis of the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET students, and employers. This is the detailed analysis of over 1,750 questionnaire responses, completed by educators, learners and employers in five countries – UK, Spain, Italy, Romania and Turkey – on their experiences of, and attitudes to, vocational education and training for construction workers and electricians. Written by Ben Lewis, Niloufar Javadi Abhari and Anjumon Ali, the report finds: In terms of the four green skills working areas defined by the project and questionnaire, 68% of educators agreed that green…
Green Skills report on employers, educators and policy-makers attitudes published
Two reports produced by Landward Research for the Green Skills at Vocational Education project have been published. The first is a Qualitative analysis of the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET policy makers and employers. This represents the results of analysis of 73 interviews with VET educators, employers and policy makers in five countries – Turkey, Romania, Italy, Spain and the UK. Written by Ben Lewis, Anjumon Ali and Niloufar Javadi Abhari, this identifes attitudes and trends in vocational eduction and training relating to green skills for construction workers and electricians. The results showed attitudes and awareness varied from country to country – from the Introduction: In the UK, individuals…
ICAHM Conference 2018
Landward Research Ltd were delighted to attend and contribute to the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM)’s Annual Meeting in Montalbano Ellicona. Kenneth Aitchison spoke about progress on the Discovering the Archaeologists of Africa project – his full paper is here.
David Connolly joins Landward Research Ltd
We are delighted to announce that David Connolly has today joined Landward Research Ltd as a Research Consultant. David, known to many for his work with British Archaeological Jobs Resource (BAJR), will be working on Delivering Online Vocational Training in Archaeology, a project funded by the European Commission through Erasmus+ and led by Archaeology Scotland which will develop bite-sized pieces of video training in practical archaeology, working with six European partners. Kenneth Aitchison, Landward’s Executive Director said “David and I go back a long, long way – all the way to Stirling Castle in the freezing cold and to lunches beside the magic pond on walkover survey for the third…
The Heritage Education Network
Landward Research Ltd are very pleased to be supporting The Heritage Education Network (THEN). THEN are doing great work, building up an alliance of like-minded organisations to share information and connections for anyone who uses, manages, teaches, or creates information about past or present peoples and cultures. We think their annotated bibliography project is particularly good! And we are pleased to say that we created and are maintaining their website, and feel very proud of it.
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…
Breaking New Ground – price reduced
Breaking New Ground: how professional archaeology works, Kenneth Aitchison’s 2012 contemporary history of professional archaeology in the UK, how it developed and what the key organisations and sites have been – is now reduced in price. It’s now available through amazon.co.uk for only £0.99. a good, exhaustive guide and update for the archaeologist and non archaeologist in understanding how archaeology in the UK has developed Stratman, October 2012 PRICE UPDATE – as of 3rd August 2017, Amazon are also providing a £1 Amazon Video (AV) Reward for purchaser, a discount against an eligible purchase – so currently pay £0.99, get £1.00 back!
Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2016-17
The report on Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2016-17 is available for download Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2017 Executive Summary The synthetic results presented here and in this report’s sister project, Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2016-17 (Aitchison 2017) allow for comparison between sub-sectors and across specialist areas in the Historic Environment sector. This report covers the results of a survey of buildings history and garden history specialists based on 408 responses. The key findings of this survey are: Charges: Buildings history specialists charge day rates between £50 – £1,280 with a median of £350 and average of £394. Charges: Garden…
Mark Spanjer, EAA Executive Board candidate
Mark Spanjer, one of Landward Research Ltd’s Directors, is standing for election to the European Association of Archaeologists‘ Executive Board in 2017. Landward Research Ltd strongly endorses his candidacy! This is his inspiring election statement. The year was 2000 and I, Mark Spanjer, was at the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting for the first time. I can still see Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belem in my mind’s eye. All was strange, new and wonderful but at the same time I felt a sort of homecoming. One thing had become clear to me: there is a European Archaeology! For many it is not yet very recognisable and it is an…
