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    News,  publications

    Impact of Covid-19 on Local Authority Archaeology Services

    July 14, 2020 / No Comments

    Landward Research has undertaken a rapid survey of ALGAO members to find out how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the work of archaeological advisors to local government across the UK. The overwhelming majority of ALGAO members have been able to continue to deliver services as they were able to do before the onset of the pandemic. This means that the availability of local government advice has not been a factor leading to a reduction in archaeological work. The majority (c.70%) of ALGAO members have continued to provide planning advice, policy advice, to comment on active developments and to provide Historic Environment Record services. The report is available for download at…

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    July 27, 2017
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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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    March 29, 2019
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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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    July 30, 2018

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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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