{"id":22065,"date":"2019-03-19T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22065"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:42:32","slug":"cifa-and-fame-celebrate-more-archaeologists-employed-than-ever-before-as-2018-archaeological-market-survey-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22065","title":{"rendered":"CIfA and FAME celebrate \u2018More archaeologists employed than ever before&#8217; \u2013 as 2018 Archaeological Market Survey now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Archaeological_Market_survey_2018_190319.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22066\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Archaeological_Market_survey_2018_190319-209x300.png\" alt=\"publication cover\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The CIfA\u00a0 and FAME have announced record Levels of Commercial Investment and Employment for Archaeologists in the UK as the latest Archaeological Market Survey report is now available.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The CIfA and FAME report identifies that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a3239m investment in the economy through applied archaeology<\/li>\n<li>In financial year 2017-18 the sector grew in terms of the number of employees, financial turnover, and profit levels.<\/li>\n<li>6,812 people were employed as professional archaeologists in 2017-18 more than have ever been before, with 13% from the EU<\/li>\n<li>The majority of businesses in the sector expected to expand significantly in the next year (2018-19) (e.g. in premises, vehicles, capital equipment)<\/li>\n<li>The overwhelming majority of income came from private sector clients (83%, a slight increase from 81% in 2016-17) with residential housing as the biggest sector, but infrastructure projects were also important.<\/li>\n<li>Much of this investment is dependent on the planning process having access to expert archaeological advice<\/li>\n<li>East Anglia and the East Midlands were identified as the most prolific regions for archaeological investment as part of development<\/li>\n<li>Despite this, the sector\u2019s confidence in the future of the market was declining, and had been since 2015<\/li>\n<li>Brexit and the under-resourcing of local government planning advice were still considered to be major concerns for the sector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Archaeological Market Survey report provides a unique analysis of the archaeological sector as part of the overall UK economy, and is based on survey responses from FAME members and CIfA Registered Organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The report was produced by Landward Research on behalf of Historic England, the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers (FAME) and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologists.net\/profession\/profiling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIfA\u00a0 and FAME have announced record Levels of Commercial Investment and Employment for Archaeologists in the UK as the latest Archaeological Market Survey report is now available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22067,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions\/22067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}