3rd November 2011, 05:47 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Another 'opinion' about the IfA being touted as a fact.... The IFA is 'managed' if you want to use that word, by an elected council which is broadly representative of the profession. I have just checked the 20 current members of IfA council and I know for a fact that at lkeast half are currently actively employed in positions that involve field work, probably Dinosaur not unlike your own. At least 2 others, I have had the pleasure to work for in the past and can vouch for their proficiency as 'dirt' archaeologists. So having killed off that myth what is left...oh here we go. You wouldn't want to meet any of them at a party!!.....Some of the best parties I have ever attended have been organised/arranged/peopled by folk currently on the IFA council ....
Would be interesting who at those meetings sways things to their way of thinking, my experience of 'committees' is that the end result usually reflects the personal views of a limited number of the participants, however much discussion there may have been in between (the mark of a successful manager, everyone is heard but what they want is what eventually happens), can't offhand think of any such endeavour I've been involved in where it hasn't been possible to predict in advance which way things are going to end up going just by looking at who's turned up