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Survey of Archaeological Specialists - moreno - 22nd February 2011
A colleague at the University of Liverpool is seeking information on archaeological specialists. I offered to post the link. Those interested, feel free to participate.
http://bit.ly/surveyarch
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - makapanman - 23rd February 2011
The survey is being carried out on behalf of the Higher Education Academy's History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre and English Heritage.
It's open until 13th March. A previous survey they commissioned this time last year on the subject of Professionalism in Archaeology managed to get only 8 responses from the private sector!
I didn't know about it and I work at the University of Liverpool where the Subject Centre is based!
Hopefully this one has a better response from being posted here and I will again tell the folks at the Subject Centre that BAJR is the place to talk to the digging community.
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - gwyl - 23rd February 2011
disappointed to see that excavation is still something that anyone can do and not recognised as a specialism
just a bunch of diggers, digging holes...
which ties in to some of the other current threads about why archaeology is not seen as professional or in some way or other a 'proper career'
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - gonetopot - 23rd February 2011
Tried to complete survey, but it reported an error and discarded my data. I'll try again later. Its a really well-designed survey (error aside),
Interesting though that they consider any commercial company with more than 9 employees a large organisation - there is a gulf of difference between those with 20, 50 or 100 employees, especially with regard to them having internal specialists or using free lancers.
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - kevin wooldridge - 23rd February 2011
gonetopot Wrote:Tried to complete survey, but it reported an error and discarded my data. I'll try again later. Its a really well-designed survey (error aside)
Funny you should mention that. I am not surprised the original survey got so few replies. I tried to complete the survey last year and also got a error and it refused to save my entry. I tried twice and then gave up.
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - Boxoffrogs - 23rd February 2011
The survey is working this morning!
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - moreno - 23rd February 2011
makapanman Wrote:Hopefully this one has a better response from being posted here and I will again tell the folks at the Subject Centre that BAJR is the place to talk to the digging community.
Makapanman- It wouldn't go amiss to pass on some of the comments to the Centre. I completed the survey yesterday with no problems. I would agree, it's a bit disappointing how the survey is organised.
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - Oxbeast - 23rd February 2011
It does say:
Quote:or any other specialist area
So maybe fieldwork specialists can make their case in the survey. I'll fill it in when I get a mo.
I've never even heard of this Higher education centre's research academy. Do you have a link to any of their research, moreno? Have they contacted the IFA on this one? Have they put it on Britarch?
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - Madweasels - 23rd February 2011
Try this
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hca/archaeology
But I think they are being scrapped due to cuts next year.
Survey of Archaeological Specialists - moreno - 23rd February 2011
Oxbeast Wrote:I've never even heard of this Higher education centre's research academy. Do you have a link to any of their research, moreno? Have they contacted the IFA on this one? Have they put it on Britarch?
Oxbeast, have a look at Madweasels link (I had to!), I don't know much about it really. I just offered to post the link here. Makapanman might be the person to ask.