Description

Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence: Profiling the Profession 2007-08 is a project designed to gather information about everyone currently working in archaeology and the historic environment.

Every organisation that employs or commissions archaeologists and others who work with the historic environment in the UK was invited to contribute to this project, including those who are self-employed. A two-part questionnaire was posted out to over 2000 employers and individual archaeologists who were asked to submit data for their organisation as it related on August 13 2007.

The results of this project will contribute to the personal development of individuals, and will assist organisations and the profession as a whole in developing and planning for the future. Similar archaeological labour market intelligence has been analysed twice before, in 1997–98 and 2002–03, and the resulting data have been extensively used by the sector. The results of both surveys are available online below.

The Institute of Field Archaeologists is funded to undertake this project by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci II fund, English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments and the Environment and Heritage Service (DoE Northern Ireland).

Profiling the Profession 2007–08 is part of a wider project, Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe, which is collecting data on archaeological employment in ten European countries, with funding from the Leonardo da Vinci II fund. The European project will contrast employment in the different countries and examine the opportunities for and obstacles to individual archaeologists’ employment in countries other than their own.