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Scottish Historic Buildings Trust have organised a short series titled ‘New Perspectives of the Country House’ which contains four free online talks throughout May and June. Details:

From the Country House Estate to the Council Scheme

6PM Tue 3^rd May (free online event)

John Lowrey looks at the importance of industry as a component in the economy of the country house estate as far back as the 17th Century.

Projects, Plans and Politics – A Scottish Tour in 1712

6PM Tue 17^th May (free online event)

Margaret Stewart uses newly uncovered evidence of a Scottish country house tour in 1712 to cast light on the architect James Gibbs.

Ghosts of Strathleven – Colonial History and Approaches to Heritage

6PM Tue 31^st May (free online event)

Esmé Coppock investigates stories of colonial exploitation, and searches for approaches to heritage which recognise this past.

Technology and the Country House – Understanding Design and Materiality with Drones, LiDAR and 3D Scanning

6PM Wed 15^th June (free online event)

Dan Bochman explores the use of drones, LiDAR and 3D Scanning to better understand the design and materiality of country houses.

Home Office have launched a new modern Slavery Campaign. The construction industry is one of the common areas of labour exploitation and modern slavery identified in the campaign. The Home Office has created resources to help people identify victims which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-closer-than-you-think

The Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England have drafted a revised edition of the guidance note – Science and the Dead, which deals with destructive sampling of human remains from archaeological sites for scientific analyses. The ethos of the document is very much as for the first edition in that it deals with legal, ethical and scientific considerations pertinent to destructive sampling of skeletal human remains for a variety of commonly employed scientific analyses. The scope is skeletal remains over 100 yrs old recovered from archaeological excavations in England. Updates are primarily intended to reflect advances in scientific techniques but also changes in other areas.

• The audience is as before: those responsible for caring for archaeological human remains – museum curators, university departments, commercial archaeological contractors, church authorities etc
• The purpose is to assist decision-making when such organisations are approached with requests for destructive sampling for research purposes, and to assist them to develop policy in this area – i.e. it is a document to assist collections management (in the broadest sense) rather than a how-to guide for researchers wanting to sample remains.
• As such it is written for a non-specialist audience therefore jargon is kept to a minimum and they have not included citations in the text.

They are now consulting with the sector on this guideline. 

They would welcome comments on any aspect of the draft text, more especially the substantive content, the general approach taken, and the clarity and structure of the text. They will add illustrations to the document at a later stage when they have come closer to a final text but if at this stage you have any views regarding illustrations or have any opinions about the illustrations that should or should not be carried over from the first edition (which remains available on the APABE website), please feel free to voice them in your response.

The draft text is below and it will shortly also be available via the APABE website http://www.archaeologyuk.org/apabe/  The closing date for receipt of comments is 15^th November 2021.

A free webinar on free and low-cost ways to make your community or development-led event more accessible that anyone can implement, including what information to include when advertising. The webinar with discuss what you should prioritise and offer suggestions with regards to what to ask for in your funding applications, crowdfunding campaigns or fundraising webpages if you’d like to make your event even more welcoming.

The webinar will start with a presentation and will be followed by a Q&A session to cover any key issues or questions in more detail.

This webinar is run by Dig It! and like past webinars it is not just for archaeologists based in Scotland, anyone can attend. Signing up is required and can be done at this link – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-your-archaeological-fieldwork-events-more-accessible-tickets-167587640143

The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities has introduced anew range of research opportunities, which aim to align research more closely with practice – A Collaborative Doctoral Awards scheme.

NOTE: organisations do not need to be based in Scotland

Collaborative Doctoral Awards provide funding for PhD-level research projects which are developed in partnership between Higher Education Institutions and non-HEI organisations or businesses. The funding is awarded to the HEI and the student receives a stipend.

The awards are intended to encourage and develop collaboration and partnerships providing opportunities for doctoral students to gain first-hand experience of work outside the university environment and enhance the employment-related skills and training a research student gains during the course of their award.

There is a small cost for hosts roughly £500 per year of the project.

Find out the full details here: https://www.sgsah.ac.uk/partners/cda/#/whatarecollaborativedoctoralawards

The Forum is the annual gathering of FAME members, providing an opportunity to connect with colleagues across the archaeology sector, to make new contacts and share news and ideas. In a world increasingly reliant on collaboration the Forum provides a unique opportunity to senior managers within the profession to take time out and think afresh.

This years theme is Commercial Archaeology -fit for the future? and the focus will be on how new ways of working, new techniques and new technologies address the challenges facing our profession.

The day will bring together speakers and delegates from across the heritage sector, but also more widely from the construction and development industry.

Once again the FAME Forum is supported by the York Archaeological Trust and admission to the Forum provides free entry to the Trusts many visitor attractions, including the newly refurbished Jorvik Viking Centre. For more details see here.

The provisional programme can be seen below.

Tickets for the FAME Forum can now be obtained from EVENTBRITE.

FAME members and partners are entitled to two Free tickets to the Forum. Extra tickets for members are available for £45 and public (non-member) tickets cost £85. Tickets cover lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea.

FAME FORUM 2018: COMMERCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Fit for the Future?

The day begins with registration and coffee at 9.30

Morning session

9.45 -10.00

Welcome and Introduction

Tim Malim, Chair of FAME

10.00 -10.25, Keynote address -TBC

10.25 -10.50, State of the Archaeology Market –have we reached peak archaeology? Doug Rocks Macqueen, Landward Research

10.50 -11.20 Tea and Coffee/Networking break

11.20-11.45, Selling niche professional services into the construction market: the view from the geotechnical industry Seamus Lefroy-Brooks, Managing Director, LBH Wembley Engineering and the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists

11.45-12.10, Moving forwards together, new developments in collaborative working David Hawkins, Operations Director, Institute of Collaborative Working

12.10 -12.30, Panel Discussion: What are the commercial and market issues we need to be focussing on over the next 12 months?

12.30-13.30 Buffet Lunch

Afternoon Session

13.30-13.55 Lessons Learned –The Lincoln Eastern Bypass Speaker from Network Archaeology TBC

13.55 – 14.20 Innovating in commercial archaeology Neil Holbrook, Chief Executive, Cotswold Archaeology

14.20 – 14.45 Donald Rumsfeld’s guide to archaeology: Making better research choices Sandy Kidd, Principal Archaeologist, Greater London Archaeological Advisory Service

14.45 – 15.10 Changing client’s attitudes to community engagement Gareth Chaffey, Project Manager, Wessex Archaeology

15.10 – 15.30 Panel discussion: How can archaeologists work smarter?

15.30-15.45 Tea and Coffee

The conference will close at 15.45