Dear All
At a the recent Institute for Archaeologists conference in Oxford I organised a session looking at the relationship between commercial archaeology/CRM and academia. (You can download the programme with abstracts from here: http://www.archaeologists.net/programme) This relationship is something which is of particular relevance in the UK at the moment and gets to the heart of some quite important issues incuding the role of Universities in providing vocational training and how to deal with the huge amount of data being generated through development-led archaeology.
However, my knowledge is very UK based - I'd be interested to hear about people's experiences of the university/CRM relationship in other countries with a well-developed commercial archaeology sector
cheers
David
Dr David Petts
Lecturer in Archaeology
Dept. of Archaeology
Durham University
Durham
DH1 3LE
Tel: 0191 3341166
http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/?id=5760
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