In August of 2019, FAME commented on a draft of a discussion paper for The Archaeology Forum. Yesterday, some parts of this discussion paper was published in the Society of Antiquaries of London’s manifesto on the ‘Future of Archaeology’. This included wording that could be read as FAME having had input into the manifesto. That is not the case, our comments on a different document did not have an impact on the content of the manifesto. We never commented on the manifesto, the contents of the draft discussion paper was very different and not presented as a manifesto. Our commenting on any such documents is never an endorsement of them, unless we explicitly do so and attach our logo.
Category: FAME News
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FAME and Profiling the Profession
Dear members,
Profiling the Profession is an ongoing project that has been collecting, analysing and reporting on employment in all parts of UK archaeology. Having first collected data in 1998, data are now being collected for 2020.
This year, data are being collected differently from before. Employers are only being asked about their organisation – not about the ages, genders, wages, qualifications etc of their staff.
We are asking those questions of the individuals themselves – people working in archaeology, people who have left archaeology and future archaeologists (archaeology students) too.
FAME is a partner in this project, as the data for our State of the Archaeological Market and Health & Safety in Archaeology reports are being collected through this single exercise.
All FAME members should have already received an email invitation to contribute, and it would be appreciated if you either followed the link in the email you have received, or click on the Survey for Organisations link below to provide information about your organisation. On average, it is taking respondents 11 minutes to complete the organisational questionnaire.
It would also be appreciated if you could share this message with all your members of staff, and invite them to complete the Survey for Individuals below. On average, it takes respondents 8 minutes to complete this questionnaire.
The project webpage is https://profilingtheprofession.org.uk/
And here are the links to the two surveys
- responding on behalf of an organisation including sole traders
- individual archaeologists, whether employed, self-employed or unemployed
- former archaeologists
- archaeology students
Best wishes
Kenneth Aitchison CEO
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More FAME webinars: Rebuilding Heritage & The provision of hygiene bins and disposal of contents on archaeology sites
We are happy to announce two more FREE FAME webinars:
Webinar 12: An introduction to Rebuilding Heritage for FAME members
Rebuilding Heritage is a free support programme, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to help the heritage sector respond to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will build confidence in a time of crisis by supporting individuals and organisations to overcome immediate challenges and plan for a sustainable future.
Join Vanessa to hear all about this new programme from The Heritage Alliance and how it can help your organisation and project. This will be an interactive session – there will be a short presentation (approximately 15 mins) and then you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the support on offer and how to apply.
NOTE- this will not be recorded
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introduction-to-rebuilding-heritage-for-fame-members-tickets-130403714019
Date: 12pm, 3rd DecemberWho is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 13: The provision of hygiene bins and disposal of contents on archaeology sites
This webinar will examine the legislation and regulations that cover provision of hygiene bins and disposal of contents. The speaker will mention why the Brilliant Bin system fits that legislation but principally it will be to advise what the range of options are.
Delivered by Susan Hofgartner, of Brilliant Bins, who start work as an accountant and working at board level in various SMEs. Managing finance and administration in these companies, she inevitably got involved in the contracts for the hygiene bins. That convinced her that there must be a better way to deal with this issue. In 2008 she started working on the project and submitted patent applications for the long-life disposable bins, followed by launching them in 2010.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-provision-of-hygiene-bins-and-disposal-of-contents-on-archaeology-sites-tickets-130408004853
Date: 12pm, 9th DecemberWho is this for: Everyone.
Recordings to all our past webinars and sign-ups for all our webinars are here: https://famearchaeology.co.uk/fame-webinars/
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PPG 16 at 30
The final version of PPG 16 was published 30 years ago today.
Planning Policy Guidance 16: Archaeology and Planning transformed archaeological practice. Only 24 pages long, and at first glance a rather technical note on the implementation of the town and country planning system, its consequences for professional archaeology were revolutionary.
PPG 16 obliged developers to pay for archaeological work that previously had been paid for from the public purse. And if they were paying, developers were free to choose who they would pay, and so this became the great enabling process of commercial archaeology.
The implementation of PPG 16 allowed archaeology in England to grow and thrive, normalising commercial archaeology and embedding it within the broader construction sector. Rapidly emulated, the same effects followed elsewhere in the UK.
Darvill et al estimated in Archaeology in the PPG16 era that there were 80,000 development-led archaeological investigations in England in the decade after its publication that would not have taken place without it, and by 2007, 93% of all archaeological projects in England were being delivered this way. Practice had been transformed, and those effects became long-lasting. While that 1990 policy document has long been updated and replaced, its key, core principles continue to enable archaeological practice 30 years on.
FAME knows that archaeology in the UK today is almost entirely the product of PPG 16. No other publication has had anything remotely close to its effects on practice.
Without it, we wouldn’t be the archaeological sector that is able to work with local government advisors and developer-clients to deliver archaeological projects at all scales anywhere in the UK.
PPG 16 is, quite simply, the most important archaeological publication there has ever been.
Kenneth Aitchison
CEO FAME
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Archaeology and pipeline safety
We have a new webinar to announce – Archaeology and pipeline safety
There have been a number of incidents around the world involving archaeology works taking place without contact being made with the pipeline operators prior to works beginning. To proactively promote pipeline safety and avoid such instances in the UK we have invited the organisation Line Watch to present on pipeline safety and archaeology. This webinar will cover pipeline safety for archaeological works.
Delivered by Murray Peat of Line Watch.
As with all our webinars they are recorded and captioned. If you can not attend in-person, you can still sign up to receive the recording – there are two ticket types on eventbrite, one is to attend in-person and receive the recording and one is to just receive the recording.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/high-pressure-pipeline-safety-and-archaeology-tickets-129654310533
Date: 12pm, 2nd December
Who is this for: Everyone.
All our upcoming and past webinars can be found on this page: https://famearchaeology.co.uk/fame-webinars/
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FAME webinars: Hiring non-UK Staff in Archaeology from 2021 onward & The benefits of Consultant and Contractor collaboration
We are proud to announce two more FAME webinars:
Hiring non-UK Staff in Archaeology from 2021 onward – This webinar will cover the change in circumstances, due to Brexit, in organisation’s ability to hire EU staff. It will review the process and costs associated with becoming a Tier 2 sponsor, which is now required to hire non-UK/Irish staff, as well as the other routes people can take to work/volunteer in UK archaeology.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hiring-non-uk-staff-in-archaeology-from-2021onward-tickets-126571082515
Date: 12pm, 12th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
The benefits of Consultant and Contractor collaboration – Claire Cogar, Director of Archaeology at Iceni Projects and Guy Hunt, Founding Partner at L-P Archaeology discuss and present effective ways for consultants and contractors to collaborate to ensure the successful delivery of archaeological work on development projects.
Date: 12pm, 25th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
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More FAME webinars
We are happy to announce two more webinars, with more planned. These are free but spaces are limited so please book quickly.
Webinar 7: Upskill your heritage workforce in England. Apprenticeships – They’re not just for school leavers! This webinar will take a look at the new suite of apprenticeships that have been designed specifically for working in the historic environment and will discuss how these can be utilised as a cost effective way for employers to up-skill their existing staff and diversify their workforce. We will discuss what a modern apprenticeship in England is, what it costs and how some are already being used in practice.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/upskill-your-heritage-workforce-in-england-tickets-125487369099
Date: 12pm, 11th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 8: Seeing Red – menstrual health and hygiene in the heritage workplace. This webinar will share best practice for handling menstrual health and hygiene on sites, equip staff with the confidence to talk about periods to site management, and for site management to deal appropriately with menstruation on sites.
Date: 12pm, 18th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
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FAME 2020 Webinars
FAME, with funding from Historic England, will be running a series of webinars throughout the year. These webinars will be focusing on the business and project management aspects of archaeology. They are open to anyone but some have limited spaces.
Accessibility – transcripts and captions will be made available for the presentation aspect of the webinars. Made possible with Historic England funding.
UPDATE – if you can not attend on the date and time we have added a second set of tickets where you can sign up to receive a link to the recorded presentation(s).
Here are some details and links to register for the first six webinars, more will be added in the future:
Webinar 1: Working with COVID restrictions in Archaeology. A review of the Social Distancing for Archaeology (SoDA) Toolkit – a free and open toolkit to help archaeologists enact social distancing.
Date: 12pm, 30th September
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122231741429
Who is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 2: Collateral Warranties. A webinar on collateral warranties, emphasising that collateral warranties are new contracts with third parties. Participants will be informed about the measures available to mitigate risk and the fundamental importance of limiting liability in such agreements.
Date: 3pm, 7th October
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122234511715
Who is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 3: Physical Archives. A webinar on planning for handling the physical archive aspect of projects.
Date: 12pm, 21st October
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122236844693
Who is this for: This is for project designers e.g. project managers, project planners, grant writers, and holders of budgets. But open to anyone. Especially, if you are interested in one day creating and running your own projects.
Webinar 4: Archaeology, access and digital data: a workshop for managers. The workshop brings together teams working on two HE-funded projects: Dig Digital, creating guidance for everyday archaeological data management and training workshops designed to support the rollout of the new OASIS to help create a self-sustaining support community. With new tools, resources and training already accessible and others on the way, now is a great time to get to grips with what you and your project teams need to know about digital data management.
Date: 2-4pm, 22nd October
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122238108473
Who is this for: Limited 20. This workshop is aimed at those managing operations, budgets, projects or teams dealing with digital data management. The workshop is endorsed by CIfA and will outlined relevant learning outcomes to support two hours of CPD.
Webinar 5: Managing Risk in Archaeology. The basics of how to manage financial risks in archaeology. Client won’t pay, project has fallen through, etc. – the what, why, how, etc. of managing those risks.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122241647057
Date: 10:30am, 28th October
Who is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 6: Duty of Care When Providing Services. A webinar considering the important distinction between the ‘duty of care’ required in providing (a) services or (b) goods. Goods fall under a ‘fit for purpose’ requirement of the Sale of Goods Act. Whereas provision of services falls under a requirement for ‘reasonable skill and care’ under the Supply of Goods and Services Act. These standards are fundamentally different and the webinar will explain why and how consultants giving advice or providing designs should make sure that their contract gets this right.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122242124485
Date: 12pm, 4th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 7: Upskill your heritage workforce in England. Apprenticeships – They’re not just for school leavers! This webinar will take a look at the new suite of apprenticeships that have been designed specifically for working in the historic environment and will discuss how these can be utilised as a cost effective way for employers to up-skill their existing staff and diversify their workforce. We will discuss what a modern apprenticeship in England is, what it costs and how some are already being used in practice.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/upskill-your-heritage-workforce-in-england-tickets-125487369099
Date: 12pm, 11th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
Webinar 8: Seeing Red – menstrual health and hygiene in the heritage workplace. This webinar will share best practice for handling menstrual health and hygiene on sites, equip staff with the confidence to talk about periods to site management, and for site management to deal appropriately with menstruation on sites.
Date: 12pm, 18th November
Who is this for: Everyone.
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Expression of Interest: Project to develop and implement strategic improvements in the practice of archaeological field evaluation in England
CIfA, working with FAME and funded by Historic England will be undertaking a project to develop and implement strategic improvements in the practice of archaeological field evaluation in England by
- working with stakeholders to develop and document a shared understanding of current evaluation practice, constraints and goals in the context of the NPPF
- determining which factors are most important in selecting appropriate and proportionate strategies for archaeological field evaluation in England, with a particular focus on sampling (trial trenching)
- identifying case studies from a representative range of chronologies, geologies and locations in England, with simple comparisons drawn between what was forecast at evaluation and what was found during subsequent archaeological investigation
The main focus of the project will be on sampling (trial trenching) in advance of minerals extraction, house-building and infrastructure development, where the need for validation and greater consensus on effective and proportionate evaluation strategies is particularly urgent. Recommendations for a second stage of work (EVALS2) to strengthen the evidence base to support ongoing sector confidence in future advice and continual improvement in archaeological evaluation practice will be made. Building on the research available, this second stage (not currently funded) is also envisaged to include additional, in-depth modelling of alternative evaluation strategies where required.
Currently there is a call for expression of interest to delivery part of this project (deadline September 30th)
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The project will be managed by a Project Executive Board comprising CIfA, FAME and Historic England, advised by a Project Advisory Group which will include representatives from the minerals, housing and infrastructure sectors and from the Association of Local Government Archaeologists (ALGAO). Joining them on the Project Advisory Group will be a researcher at the University of Brighton undertaking a four-year doctoral research project into evaluation methodologies through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology(SEAHA), in collaboration with Historic England and Trent & Peak Archaeology. The Project Advisory Group will meet around six times during the course of the projects which will also be guided by four wider stakeholder consultation workshops. All meetings are scheduled to take place via online video conferencing. For more information about this project, please contact kate.geary@archaeologists.net
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Notice of 2020 AGM
The 2020 FAME was meant to take place in June of this year but was postponed because of COVID. However, the situation has not improved enough for us to have our AGM in York with the current social distancing rules in place and according to statues it needs to occur this month. As such, we will be having a digital AGM. Please see the details below
FAME 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Monday 28th September 2020, 3.00pm
Online via Zoom
Agenda
1. Apologies
2. Register of approved voting members and declaration of quorum
3. Minutes of the 2019 AGM
4. Report from the Chair
5. Treasurer’s report
6. Chief Executive’s report
7. Election of members of the Board of Directors
The following Directors have resigned:
• Gill Hey (Oxford Archaeology)The following have retired by rotation and have been nominated for re-election
• Tim Malim (SLR Consulting)
• Chris Brayne (Wessex Archaeology)
• Joanna Caruth (Cotswold Archaeology)The following has been appointed by resolution of the other Directors during the year prior to this AGM, and has been nominated for election
• Tim Neighbour (CFA Archaeology)8. Special Resolution
The members of the Company who at the date of this resolution are entitled to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company, hereby resolve upon the following resolution:
THAT the existing articles of association be modified to accommodate
a) General minor changes throughout the Articles – different document histories had led to minor changes, FAME Revised Articles 031219 presented have lost apostrophes etc and formatting has been made consistent.
b) Articles also currently state that Directors cannot nominate replacements to attend Board meetings in their place. By precedent, we have been doing this for some time. Amendment to Article 27 will allow a replacement to attend, while the Director remains responsible for decisions taken on their behalf.
Article 27A director may not appoint an alternate director or anyone other nominated individual to act on his or her behalf at meetings of the directors.
as specified in the attached
FAME Articles of Association 0312199. Ordinary Resolution
The members of the Company who at the date of this resolution are entitled to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company, hereby resolve upon the following resolution:
THAT the existing Rules be modified to accommodate changes regarding
a) specifying that membership is ratified by the Board.
b) solo operator membership
c) the numbers of members of the BoardMembership
Membership of the Company shall be conferred upon all such eligible organizations who have indicated in writing their desire to join, subject to ratification approval by the Board. Eligibility is defined by the following criteria: organizations that are a business with two or more registered employees, legally constituted and registered with the appropriate national tax authorities, with written contracts for staff, pension arrangements, health and safety policies and procedures, and issues pay advice slips at regular intervals.
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The Board may offer “Affiliated Membership” to those individuals or organisations who do not fully meet membership criteria, subject to ratification at the next Annual General Meeting. Affiliated Members receive Company papers, but are not entitled to vote.Management Board
There shall be a Management Board with a minimum of eight members and a maximum of twelve members, including a Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, elected by the Annual General Meeting. At the end of each year, one third of the members of the Board (up to four) shall retire in rotation and will be eligible for re-election for the ensuing year. The Board shall have the power to co-opt to fill casual vacancies in its membership.
as specified in the attached
FAME Rules 03121910. Items for information and discussion
11. AOB