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    Non-Professional Archaeologists in the US

    July 3, 2018 /

    Donn Grenda, the President of SRI has written a short piece in the SAA June 2018 Government Affairs and International Government Affairs Update. He has picked up on the recent issue of the (defeated) proposal to allow non-professionals to carry out archaeological fieldwork on Arizona state lands, and the concern that this could come back in Arizona or that it could, or does happen in other US states. This is particularly a concern where the actual numbers of professional archaeologists are unknown, and so arguments about over- (‘there are plenty archaeologists looking at other stuff – they aren’t interested in this site‘) or under-capacity (‘there aren’t enough archaeologists in this…

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    Green Skills at Vocational Education

    April 20, 2018

    Archaeology in Development Management

    September 11, 2019

    The Size of the UK Heritage Compliance Sector

    March 23, 2018
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    Who Works in African Archaeology?

    April 12, 2018 /

    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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    Non-Professional Archaeologists in the US

    July 3, 2018

    ONS Safe Researcher

    March 26, 2018

    Data Protection registration – Renewal confirmation ICO:00043949950

    January 16, 2017
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    Heritage Market Survey 2014

    July 18, 2015 /

    The report on the Heritage Market Survey 2014, which collected data on the condition of commercial archaeology in the UK in March 2014 has been published. Download Heritage Market Survey 2014 Report.   Executive Summary This Heritage Market Survey report is on the State of the Market for Archaeological Services in 2013-14 and has been prepared by Landward Research Ltd on behalf of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, FAME and Historic England. At the end of March 2014, the number of people working in archaeology was increasing and business confidence was high. Employment In total, it is estimated that the applied archaeology sectoral workforce grew by 3.0% between December 2012…

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    January 16, 2017

    Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2016-17

    July 27, 2017

    Market Research Society Best Practice Guide to Buying Research and Insight

    August 20, 2017
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    Professional Archaeology in the UK in 2015

    April 4, 2015 /

    Cultural Trends has recently published an exciting new special issue on cultural policy ahead of the 2015 UK general election. This intended to stimulate debate about the past and future of cultural policy, to critique current assumptions and to introduce fresh ideas. Kenneth Aitchison of Landward Research Ltd authored the article on Professional Archaeology in the UK in 2015.

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    Carbon Neutral in 2019

    March 29, 2019

    Transnational Mobility

    September 7, 2018

    ANHER presentation at HERMA conference

    January 27, 2017
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    Reviews for Breaking New Ground

    August 7, 2013 /

    Breaking New Ground: how professional archaeology works, published by Landward Research Ltd, has received a couple of reviews on Amazon. It has also been reviewed in RESCUE News by Reuben Thorpe (with the same review text as published on Amazon) "Aitchison will be known as probably the most hard working and prolific writer about archaeology in the market place" Papers from the Institute of Archaeology  by Hana Koreich "an extremely valuable contribution to a growing interest in the sociology and history of archaeology, serving as an impressive guide to a period starting with the 1800s and running to as recently as 2010. Having strong and detailed up-to-date work on the shelf so quickly…

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    December 19, 2018

    The Heritage Education Network

    May 21, 2018
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    Impact of Covid-19 on Local Authority Archaeology Services

    July 14, 2020