13th April 2013, 12:37 PM
That's a very negative view of things!
I'd agree that, judging by their reports, some units take that approach (shame on them), but there are plenty of others (I work for one, and I can think of a few others) that attempt, within the available resources (and sometimes beyond), to get as much 'academic' value as possible from any project whatever it happens to throw up - hence my recent interest on here with turkeys. We frequently get additional work done over and above the remit of the spec and budget, just takes a bit of time and effort and the right 'academic' contacts - e.g. 14 years after the event I'm currently awaiting the results of isotope analysis on some Roman skellies being done by Reading Uni with a research grant, hasn't cost the the original project a penny although admittedly I'm then going to have to extensively re-write the (still-unpubliished) draft monograph on my own time. Other material from the same site has been the same subject of a number of undergraduate and post-graduate dissertations etc (and thankyou to those who've sent me copies of their work) and some of the finds have been the subject of analysis and publication by 3rd parties and much discussed in other published works despite the (deeply annoying) on-going non-publication of the original monograph - 'ticking the boxes' needn't/shouldn't be the end of the process of PX, data from 'old' sites should be being constantly reconsidered and where possible augmented? :face-thinks:
I'd agree that, judging by their reports, some units take that approach (shame on them), but there are plenty of others (I work for one, and I can think of a few others) that attempt, within the available resources (and sometimes beyond), to get as much 'academic' value as possible from any project whatever it happens to throw up - hence my recent interest on here with turkeys. We frequently get additional work done over and above the remit of the spec and budget, just takes a bit of time and effort and the right 'academic' contacts - e.g. 14 years after the event I'm currently awaiting the results of isotope analysis on some Roman skellies being done by Reading Uni with a research grant, hasn't cost the the original project a penny although admittedly I'm then going to have to extensively re-write the (still-unpubliished) draft monograph on my own time. Other material from the same site has been the same subject of a number of undergraduate and post-graduate dissertations etc (and thankyou to those who've sent me copies of their work) and some of the finds have been the subject of analysis and publication by 3rd parties and much discussed in other published works despite the (deeply annoying) on-going non-publication of the original monograph - 'ticking the boxes' needn't/shouldn't be the end of the process of PX, data from 'old' sites should be being constantly reconsidered and where possible augmented? :face-thinks: