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    Green Skills at Vocational Education

    April 20, 2018 /

    The website for the transnational Erasmus+ project Green Skills at Vocational Education is now live http://www.greenskills.ceipes.org/  

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    Discovering the Archaeologists of Africa – Update

    August 4, 2018

    UK Commercial Archaeology will not see an infrastructure jobs boom

    January 8, 2018
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    Public Engagement in Development-led Archaeology: a Survey

    January 15, 2021
  • News

    Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2016-17

    July 27, 2017 /

    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…

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    UK Commercial Archaeology will not see an infrastructure jobs boom

    January 8, 2018

    What do you mean, you don’t recognise my qualification?

    April 19, 2017

    Launch of Landward Research occasional papers

    July 30, 2018
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    Historic Environment Specialists

    January 8, 2017 /

    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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    Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2016-17

    July 27, 2017

    Landward Research Ltd receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund

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    The Final Transnational Meeting of Green Skills Project

    August 9, 2019
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    National Infrastructure Development and Historic Environment Skills Capacity 2015-33: An Assessment

    May 19, 2016 /

    We are delighted to see that the front page of Historic England‘s website today (19th May 2016 – here is their news story) is publicising an excellent report that they have produced on National Infrastructure Development and Historic Environment Skills Capacity 2015-33: An Assessment which draws heavily on research data produced by Landward Research Ltd. These data are presented along detailed information on forthcoming major infrastructure projects that has been digested from a variety of official UK government sources, coming to the conclusion that there is and will be a shortage of skilled workers in the sector. The Archaeological Market Surveys for 2014-5, 2013-4 and 2012-3 are all referred to as the sources for…

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    Transnational Mobility

    September 7, 2018

    Discovering the Archaeologists of Africa Survey

    February 7, 2018

    David Connolly joins Landward Research Ltd

    November 1, 2018
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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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    October 31, 2017

    Carbon Neutral in 2017-18

    April 1, 2018

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    September 17, 2019
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    Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 – Transnational Report

    November 30, 2014 /

    The Transnational Report of the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 project, which brings together data from all of the 21 national reports published as part of the project, has itself been published. Kenneth Aitchison and Doug Rocks-Macqueen of Landward Research Ltd are two of the co-authors. Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-14: Transnational Report Executive Summary Between 2012 and 2014 representatives from 23 organisations in 21 European countries worked together in the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 project to gain insight into the profile of the archaeological profession and labour market in those countries. The results can be compared with those of a predecessor Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project, undertaken…

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    November 17, 2017

    Green Skills at Vocational Education

    April 20, 2018

    Carbon Neutral in 2019

    March 29, 2019
  • News

    Compare and Contrast

    January 30, 2014 /

    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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    Green Skills Newsletter

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    July 27, 2017
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    Adapting Green Skills to Vocational Education

    December 6, 2013 /

    Landward Research Ltd is working on a project funded by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme - Leonardo da Vinci Partnerships together with partners from Turkey (HATİCE BAYRAKTAR TEKNİK VE ENDÜSTRİ MESLEK LİSESİ and Köyceğiz Mesleki ve Teknik Eğitim Merkezi Müdürlüğü), Bulgaria (Konstantin Stamov Ltd.), Czech Republic (RIVA, o.s.) and Germany (Bildungsinstitut PSCHERER gGmbH and stratum GmbH) on skills development and advocacy project that aims to ensure that vocational education and training delivers environmentally sustainable skills The future is changing and the skills needed are changing too. For a better world we must be careful on environmental issues. Vocational education must be adapted to meet environmental needs. For a greener industry we need more qualified workers…

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    Green Skills at Vocational Education

    April 20, 2018

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    August 3, 2017

    Supporting CIfA 2017, Newcastle

    April 16, 2017
  • News

    The Historic Environment and Cultural Heritage Skills Survey

    November 14, 2013 /

    Landward Research Ltd is delighted to announce that Creative and Cultural Skills have published The Historic Environment and Cultural Heritage Skills Survey. This report, written on CCSkills and English Heritage‘s behalf (the report will contribute to Heritage Counts 2014) by TBR, together with Landward Research, Pomegranate and Qa Research, presents data on skills issues across the broad cultural heritage sector and presents a detailed understanding of the issues facing employers and their workforces across the UK. The project researchers spoke to over 1,000 organisations within the sector in order to provide a detailed understanding of some of the critical skills issues facing their workforces. The report’s key findings include Skills…

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    Transnational Mobility

    September 7, 2018

    On the Outside Looking In – what will Brexit mean for European archaeology?

    January 19, 2018

    Skills Needs in Buildings History and Garden History 2016-17

    July 27, 2017
  • News

    State of the Archaeological Market, December 2012

    October 3, 2013 /

    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…

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    November 21, 2018

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