Our staff must work in partnership with at least one of the following:
- Another archaeological unit
- Curator, consultant, or client
- Underfunded charitable organisations
- Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Grants will offer safe spaces for collaboration with companies and clients that might normally be risk-averse. This will allow them to co-design and test new methods that increase the positive social and environmental impact of archaeological fieldwork and post-excavation research.
Examples of possible projects include, but are not limited to:
- Teaming up with a climate action or environmental charity to design low-carbon alternatives to standard archaeological field, lab, office or other practices.
- Partnering with another archaeological unit to pool data and expertise from across a region, in order to develop a new experience or product for non-specialist audiences.
- Collaborating with a curator or consultant to rethink approaches to designing archaeological programmes, in order to achieve greater social impact for local communities.
- Working with a charity or small enterprise to develop greater opportunities for, and decrease barriers around, employment of individuals who are currently underrepresented in archaeology.
- Cooperating with an arts or cultural organisation to develop new ways of engaging citizens in real time with live excavation or post-excavation activities.
- Partnering with a media-oriented charity or small-to-medium-sized media company to design and test a novel and wide-reaching approach to public broadcasting of archaeology.
