25th January 2013, 01:20 AM
A quote from the IfA website "While there may be individual benefits to joining IfA, the biggest benefit of all is the effect your membership and you as an individual can have on your profession. The more people who join us, the stronger we become, and the more power we have to influence decision makers. In this way we can make sure that only ethical and competent professionals undertake archaeological work, that the public get the maximum benefit from such work, and recognised professionals get the rewards they deserve.