Being an Enterprising Archaeologist: Knowledge Exchange and Collaboration in the Urban Historic Environment

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

UK universities are undergoing a culture change, with greater value placed on research collaboration with businesses, charities, NGOs, and government. This knowledge exchange does not just shape research projects and their outcomes – measurement of the success of projects is increasingly used to make funding decisions, from research grants to central funding allocations for universities.

Examinations of knowledge exchange in archaeology have focused on collaboration in fieldwork training, or with other disciplines, and there is a tradition of field units and museums based in, or working with universities. But there has been little critique around the situation of archaeology in a more business and governance-focused collaboration context, e.g. considering what collaboration between archaeologists and others brings to policy making.

Through examination of projects in Leicester and London, UK, this paper will consider what collaboration with other kinds of organisations has contributed to a more measured approach to doing historical archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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