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  • Wellbeing in Heritage

    Wellbeing in Heritage

    The Heritage Alliance, in partnership with Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, is trying to understand how wellbeing is being prioritised within the heritage sector, and so they have created a survey about this topic.

    The results will help them to better understand what wellbeing programmes and activities are available in the sector. The data will also be anonymised and used by Ecclesiastical for PR and marketing purposes.

    To thank those who complete our survey, Ecclesiastical is offering the chance to win a £500 donation to a charity of your choice.

    Click here to take the survey.

    The

    Heritage

    Alliance

    Twitter: @Heritage_NGOs

    www.theheritagealliance.org.uk

  • Historic England: Call for input on CPD courses

    Historic England: Call for input on CPD courses

    Please see the follow call for input from Historic England on training:

    Historic England is inviting views from sector colleagues on the sort of training that you would like us to deliver. Our corporate plan demonstrates our commitment to developing the skills and knowledge of the heritage sector. Our Training Strategy provides further detail on the need for training, which is underpinned by unprecedented social and economic pressures that are impacting on the availability of key resources. As part of its work to address these issues, Historic England provides CPD training through three programme: Essentials, HELM and Heritage Practice.

    The Heritage Practice programme aims to disseminate our staff’s expertise in practical, technical and specialist tools needed to protect heritage. This content goes beyond that which Historic England funds as part of the dissemination of government advice and policy, which means we have to recover any costs incurred by charging for delegate places. Because we have recently brought the delivery of the Heritage Practice programme in-house, we would like to find out more about the sector’s need for training.

    Historic England is therefore conducting a programme of market research, through an online survey available at this link. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ZMZH8MJ The survey is mainly multiple choice and should take less than 15 minutes to complete. It is open until September 30th 2019.

    At the end of the survey, you will be asked about your preferences for further information. If you choose to be contacted in future, we can add you our mailing list about our training offer and keep you updated about the findings of this research.

    Finally, please do feel free to forward this to any interested colleagues and contacts. And apologies for any cross-posting – we have circulated the survey quite widely.

    Thanks very much
    Historic England Training Delivery Team

     

  • Innovation in professional practice: short survey

    CIfA is requesting help with gathering some information:

    Please could you spare a few minutes (c. 5 minutes) to complete this short survey to support a project entitled Building capacity through innovation co-organised by CIfA and ALGAO and funded by Historic England. The project addresses the results from the Historic England/CIfA 21st century challenges for archaeology workshop discussions in 2017 which identified some possible barriers to incorporating innovation and new techniques/methods to commercial archaeological practice etc on a consistent and regular basis. This survey forms the initial groundwork for this project and aims to find out how professionals working in the historic environment sector currently learn about new innovative approaches, how they’re incorporated into working practices and what the primary barriers are to their consistent use at the present time.

  • CRM Financial Performance Statistics Released for 2018

    FAME member, Heritage Business International L3C (HBI), has released the results of its annual Cultural Resources Management (CRM) Financial Performance Survey for 2018.
    The report that details internal business statistics for CRM firms. The report is used by firms to benchmark their performance against competitors in the industry, as a check on financial
    health, and as a basis for strategic and operational planning.
    You can read more about the release here: HBI News Release June 2019.
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  • Call for Papers: HS2 and the TAG Conference 2019 – treatment of the dead in current archaeological practice

    Please see below this call for papers relating to professional archaeology and the treatment of bodies:

    We would like to draw your attention to the forthcoming TAG conference, 16-18 December in London.

    HS2 Ltd are organising a session ‘The treatment of the dead in current archaeological practice’ – we are particularly interested in discussing the political, ethical and social impacts of human remains research, including for health, belief, and for local, regional and national identity.

    We are looking for a broad range of papers about the sites on HS2 and further afield, emphasising the role of knowledge about the past in the present, as well as the most current debate about aspects of archaeological evidence itself.

    https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news-events/conferences/tag-2019/conference-sessions-1-30

    The theme of the Conference is ‘Power, Knowledge and the Past’ and Plenary session, ‘What is the past good for in the world of 2020?’

    Abstracts (250 words) for a 15 minute paper should be directed to Andrea Bradley Andrea.Bradley2@hs2.org.uk

    before 16 August 2019.

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  • The Future of ScARF

    The Future of ScARF

    The the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is looking to plan for the future development of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (ScARF). To accomplish this they have launched a survey. The survey covers the national framework and emerging regional frameworks: Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland; RARFA; SESARF, HighARF, SIRFA, and PKARF.  If you have ever used or had any involvement with ScARF, please complete this short survey which will close on Wednesday 31st July.

    Launched in 2012, the framework was designed to provide an ever growing record of the state of knowledge about Scotland’s past, in order to inform research priorities. It provides a platform for researchers to both contribute and access research findings. Latterly the development of regional frameworks has sought to add regional detail to the national picture. This survey seeks views from all users about how you use ScARF; your experience of contributing to the evolving regional frameworks; and priorities for future development. The survey is mostly multiple choice and should take no more than ten minutes to complete.

    The survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/XBZ2XD7

  • FAME welcomes new member: MSDS Marine

    FAME welcomes new member: MSDS Marine

    FAME is happy to announce a new organisation has joined our membership – MSDS Marine.

    MSDS Marine are a Marine and Coastal Contractor specialising in the management, execution and support of archaeological projects in the marine environment. They have a wide range of experience and expertise within the industry from the project management of large scale underwater excavations through to the fulfilment of archaeological licence conditions prior to large infrastructure developments. Thier geophysical and hydrographic services including data collection, processing, visualisation and interpretation.

    MSDS Marine are a diving contractor registered with the HSE and provide diving and logistical support to underwater projects both on Surface Supply or SCUBA dependant on requirements. They have experience of providing support to the wider marine sector including ecological assessments, pre and post construction surveys and specialist survey solutions.

    You can find out more about them at their website: https://msdsmarine.com/en/home/

  • FAME Member News: Suffolk Archaeology & Cotswold Archaeology

    FAME Member News: Suffolk Archaeology & Cotswold Archaeology

    Suffolk Archaeology Community Interest Company has now become part of Cotswold Archaeology. This initiative builds on the strong history of collaboration between the two companies in East Anglia over the last few years on projects such as Sizewell Nuclear Power Station and the cable connection to East Anglia One offshore wind farm. Suffolk Archaeology’s current premises in Needham Market near Ipswich will  trade as the Suffolk office of Cotswold Archaeology, and Managing Director Dr Rhodri Gardner will remain Office Head and join Cotswold’s Senior Management Group.

    Suffolk Archaeology’s core operating area of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Norfolk is a great match with the territory that Cotswold currently services from its office in Milton Keynes. Read more here https://cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/cotswold-archaeology-and-suffolk-archaeology-merge/

  • FAME welcomes new member: Atkins

    FAME would like to extend a warm welcome to one of our new members approved by the board in September: Atkins

    SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. FAME is pleased to have their archaeology team in the UK joining us.

  • FAME welcomes new member: Arcadis

    FAME would like to extend a warm welcome to one of our new members approved by the board in September: Arcadis

    Arcadis is an international firm providing support to clients around the globe. They apply their deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services, in partnership with their clients to create exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets.

    FAME is pleased to have their archaeology team in the UK joining us.