29th October 2005, 11:40 PM
Back from hols, just catching up on developments over the last couple of weeks.
This thread seems to have gone off on a bit of a tangent. Looks like we have the following topics suggested so far (paraphrased from Troll and others):
1. The relationship between commercial competition and archaeological standards;
2. Health and Safety standards;
3. Public dissemination of archaeological results;
4. Pay levels - how high, how regulated;
5. Chartered or other recognised status for IFA to give it more teeth;
6. Students' perspective on careers, especially practical training and experience levels gained by graduation time.
I have previously suggested, on another thread, the following:
7. The roles of, and relationships between, the various branches of the profession, which (thinking in terms of interest-groups) I would now probably define as follows:
- field unit staff (non-management)
- field unit management
- specialists
- curators
- consultants
- academic teaching and research staff
- students
I have not included amateur groups here because we are talking about the profession. I am particularly interested in the roles of the parties involved in development-led archaeology and would be happy to contribute in that area.
If each of the 7 main topics equals a full session, that sounds like a rather full programme for a first conference, so we may need to combine and/or prioritise.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
This thread seems to have gone off on a bit of a tangent. Looks like we have the following topics suggested so far (paraphrased from Troll and others):
1. The relationship between commercial competition and archaeological standards;
2. Health and Safety standards;
3. Public dissemination of archaeological results;
4. Pay levels - how high, how regulated;
5. Chartered or other recognised status for IFA to give it more teeth;
6. Students' perspective on careers, especially practical training and experience levels gained by graduation time.
I have previously suggested, on another thread, the following:
7. The roles of, and relationships between, the various branches of the profession, which (thinking in terms of interest-groups) I would now probably define as follows:
- field unit staff (non-management)
- field unit management
- specialists
- curators
- consultants
- academic teaching and research staff
- students
I have not included amateur groups here because we are talking about the profession. I am particularly interested in the roles of the parties involved in development-led archaeology and would be happy to contribute in that area.
If each of the 7 main topics equals a full session, that sounds like a rather full programme for a first conference, so we may need to combine and/or prioritise.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished