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d mifa or even attempt to subvert them it is merely a way for all contractors and all archaeologists who use bajr to know what is expected and what the bottom line is it is true to say that some people feel that the bajr pay minima represent de facto levels but this is not the intent although every company is consulted annually on the following 12 monthly grade pay scale the choice to advertise or not is always in the hands of the contractor they are free to pay less than the quoted grade if they wish but if they do they know that their jobs will not be advertised on bajr thus the modern day bajr is a beast of three parts jobs portal it is accepted by archaeologists working in the united kingdom that bajr british archaeological jobs and resources is a trusted portal for archaeology job adverts and has a strong pay and conditions ethic forum bajr also provides a platform to encourage open debate on all that is right wrong and humorous about the archaeological profession information provider a comprehensive searchable directories ranging from curatorial services to heritage courses within the uk it is now fifteen years since the first bajr website was uploaded but the brand and the ethos behind it has stood the test of time the modern interactive face of the bajr site today with each component playing a special part within british archaeology the future defining and distracting views of bajr include misconceptions expectations and beliefs that merged into a monolithic vision of an organisation that must be up to something but what was that something find out now as part ii and part iii of the rise of bajr can be found here and here tags bajr david connolly guest post past horizons comments 2 comments categories archaeological legislation archaeology bajr british archaeology commercial archaeology competition david connolly field archaeology guest blog entries heritage ifa past horizons uk archaeology interview with stuart rathbone a view from the trenches 8 nov stuart rathbone is a field archaeologist with considerable experience in the uk ireland and the united states of america in excavation and project supervising a number of important prehistoric and historic archaeology sites in conjunction with field work stuart has also held academic positions and writes regularly on a broad range of topics in archaeology for varied audiences stuart has recently left the role of an archaeological project officer based in the orkney islands in northern scotland with orca to persue an archaeology career in the united states stuart s academia profile with links to his papers can be found here these bones of mine hello stuart welcome to these bones of mine for those who do not know could you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do please stuart rathbone well i m really what you might call a jobbing archaeologist i graduated from bournemouth university about 13 years ago and since the week i left i ve been earning my living doing whatever jobs people were willing to pay me to do i left england in 2001 to do a 6 month contract on one of the irish motorway jobs and without ever intending to i guess i ended up emigrating i worked my way up the career ladder within one of the bigger contracting firms acs by 2006 i was licensed to direct my own excavations and i spent a couple of years on the m3 motorway project running some fairly tasty sites unfortunately in 2008 the irish economy tanked and i found myself unexpectedly unemployed i was fortunate to land on my feet and spent the next four years running a field school on achill island in county mayo training archaeology and anthropology students from all over the world that job was great fun a real change from the commercial world i also managed to pick up a little contract with university college dublin helping to write up the overdue reports for the céide fields neolithic landscape project that all came to an end in 2011 and i moved home to england and spent some time out in east anglia doing more contract work at the start of this year i moved up to the northern isles where i ve been doing more pre development stuff but also a little bit of time over the summer spent at the neolithic ness of brodgar site basically that s me some commercial work some research work lurking around the university departments without ever becoming a faculty member and really just doing whatever anyone with a cheque book asks me to somewhere in wicklow in 2001 every one who works in ireland will remember their first burnt stone mound i guess part of the reason you ve asked me to do this interview is because other than digging holes i write quite a bit of archaeology i have quite a few specific areas of interest that i plug away at i enjoy looking at the way the profession works across different sectors and also how we communicate archaeology in different media and to different audiences in terms of more traditional topics i ve written a lot about prehistoric settlement and a few bits and pieces about post medieval vernacular buildings finally i do some more wayward and experimental stuff which provides an antidote to all the serious pieces i write it would be unfortunately rare for me to actually get paid for any of this writing so it s definitely a sort of a hobby the nice thing about this though is that because i m not being paid or funded i m not really beholden to anyone either not only am i very free to choose what i ll work on i m also very free to express myself in the which ever way my mood takes me tbom i think anyone who has read your william burroughs influenced cut up archaeology article probably wouldn t forget it in a hurry having been a field archaeologist since 2001 and writing widely on the subject how well do you think the world of archaeology is presented or made accessible to the public do you think a dichotomy exists between the public s perception of archaeology and its value compared to what the researchers and diggers actually do stuart well there s certainly problems i think we don t communicate with the public directly enough or certainly not at a serious academic level everything is mediated through a series of interchangeable tv presenters who may have backgrounds and expertise in totally different areas time team was fabulous and irritating in equal amounts and that s not just from a professional point of view a lot of the time they thought they were being clever but they weren t fooling anybody we certainly need more archaeology on tv and there s so many ways that it could be worked out the old documentary formats are far from irrelevant they just need people to figure out new ways of getting decent archaeological content into them but somehow some shows really need to exploit the potential for following longer and more complicated excavations i m sure it could be done but it needs to be a really fabulous set of sites really competently run and with beautiful project design and it needs to be cinematic a damp field in rural leicestershire just isn t going to cut it the main problem with tv isn t even the shows it s what the effect has been on popular publishing almost all the popular archaeology books are now written by or ghost written for the people from tv and linked in to the sales generated during the airing of a particular show it s all incredibly basic watered down and insipid mostly it s the same generic information endlessly recycled if you are lucky enough to still have a bookshop go and have a look at the history shelves you ll find they are teaming with books on a huge range of historical subjects and only a small percent are tied into tv shows if you find the little corner of the shelf where the archaeology books gather it s a very different and very sad story so it seems there is still an audience for proper books about history but we ve just not got that for archaeology maybe it s a fundamental problem with the subject matter that it just doesn t lend itself to interesting tales but i m sure it s also because we just don t have the skills that historians do in finding exciting ways to share our information that s where all the ancient aliens and mother goddess stuff comes in because people are interested in the archaeological landscapes they see around them and they want to know about them but they sure don t want to be bored and the way that stuff works is that firstly it s exciting and secondly it makes the reader feel special like they are being initiated into this realm of secret knowledge for all the horrendous liberties taken with the archaeological content those books are successful because they utilise a good dynamic so we need to be braver we need to start writing more interesting books more amusing books and i don t believe for one minute that we have to water down our concepts seriously thinking we re so clever that ordinary folk wouldn t understand us is ridiculously arrogant we just need to have a bit of faith that an audience we have been failing to reach is out there waiting for us to come to them on a more positive note we do lots of things right but mostly when we communicate directly i don t really like the term community archaeology it seems so medical what was wrong with having societies but anyway those groups provide fantastic interaction between the public and the archaeologists and they are thriving unfortunately they are only involving a small number of people there just isn t the capacity to reach everyone that might be interested and they tend to be a little bit elusive they don t reach out to new potential members so much i think there will always be a natural group size for things like that somewhere between 10 and 30 people probably better near the lower end it s a club structure operating at a very local scale it just doesn t work with big numbers so all the archaeology days and all of those things are great but they don t solve the issue of the missing popular archaeology same sort of thing with the public lectures you know when archaeologists go out and give their lectures at little groups and societies well that s fantastic and i love doing that sort of thing myself but at 30 people a time it s not like the message of archaeology is getting spread far and wide that s probably where the internet can step in i love the way archaeologists have all these new ways of communicating with the public and just as importantly with each other it s totally changed things in an awful lot of ways in particular because the academic structure really isn t carried over to the digital realm where people use all these weird nicknames and avatars and identity is hidden or even on facebook where identities are normally genuine people don t advertise their job title so much so you ll see a question go up on a board from a member of the public or another archaeologist looking for information and advice and they ll get all these useful answers really helpful stuff but if you know who the people are who are giving the information away it can be these really important archaeologists contractors with decades of experience state sector archaeologists university lecturers or just random gobshites like myself people are getting access to some really highly qualified people and they may not even realise it that just makes me very happy every time i see it tbom it seems that reality has read your reply and answered in the form of making the tv presenter dan snow the new president for the council of british archaeology stuart you have written movingly of the issues facing that much maligned face of archaeology the field archaeologist over at robert m chappel s blog having been a field archaeology for some 13 years now what in your view has improved and what conditions remain to be improved for field archaeologists in the uk and ireland more importantly what can people who run archaeological units or are field archaeologists themselves do to the improve conditions stuart yeah that thing on bob s blog is probably the most successful thing i ve ever written it got a ridiculous number of views i d like to think that s because it really hit the spot for a lot of people but of course you can never be sure i think the main point by the end of that piece is that the conditions in field archaeology could be having a much worse affect on peoples over all well being than has ever been acknowledged there s certainly every possible combination of circumstance that would promote ill health in particular poor mental health but we just don t know if it is a problem or not there is no data we have all these surveys of the profession but they are so limited in terms of what they ve examined we really need a sociological study of field archaeology that s kind of what the paper is about that someone needs to really go out and conduct some very in depth interviews with a great big pile of archaeologists and see what the situation is i suspect it would be bad but i wouldn t be that surprised if people are coping better than they might archaeologists are fairly rugged individuals and tend to have a bitter sense of humour that can see them through i d love to do it myself but it s such a huge project and i have no funding i m up to my eyes in unfunded hobby projects so i just can t take it on what i am doing at the moment is asking for people who have read the article to contribute their own experiences either as a comment at the bottom of the blog page or if they want to stay anonymous just to email it to me or send it to me on facebook or whatever that came about because quite a senior northern irish archaeologist wrote a lengthy and really emotional account of why she left the profession as a comment after the piece i was just blown away so i ve asked for more and any that come in will be included as an appendix in a physical version of the article that should be coming out next year i ll probably take the chance to make my own testimony and that would explain a lot about how i got interested in working on that topic in the first place the top of slievemore in county mayo during the summer of 2010 one of those moments when the great out doors really just takes the piss as for the problems facing field archaeologists in britain and ireland well the situations are quite different and that s going back for ten or fifteen years at least but in many ways it s equally bad it s no secret that there is a major problem with careers in field archaeology in terms of payment job security and career progression i don t really have any answers i m afraid the current mechanisms of competitive tendering in a deregulated market just don t allow for much progress to be made the institute for field archaeology and the institute of archaeologists of ireland are both in the same boat whilst they perform some important functions they just won t get involved in the issues which most field staff want them to archaeologists look for them to replicate some of the functions of unions but th...
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