#ThePipeline reports that the anti-DEI backlash impacts leadership aspirations of young women. Of 2,000 respondents 66% said that #GenderBias is a barrier to reaching leadership positions. 40% reported feeling less safe in the workplace due to developments in #DEI policies. #FeministFriday
#thePipeLine & #WatchingBrief have covered the slow deconstruction of Sheffield University archaeology by the University SMT since it began.
The latest allegation is the internationally important Zooarchaeology Lab and reference collection has been moved to an unsuitable site & set up to fail.
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It is Detectival weekend, and "the Woodstock of #MetalDetecting" has again hired finds recorders.
thePipeLine reveals FLO's are also attending to conduct "outreach" with the 1000+ detectorists attending and we ask, does this mean the approach of the PAS to rallies is softening?
SHAPE courses in the regions have been under threat for some time.
Back in 2021 #thePipeLine ran the story of how the University of Worcester axed its archaeology course at short notice removing an opportunity for many students from deprived areas in the West Midlands to study archaeology locally.
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#thePipeLine and the #WatchingBrief also deal with how archaeology and Government come together, such as when we asked if archaeological bodies, including Historic England, had sold the pass on an important planning principle, harm to setting, over the nationally important Old Oswestry hillfort?
In a heritage sector where it sometimes seems representative organisations work on the basis accountability is something which happens to other people, #thePipeLine and #WatchingBrief also asked if CIfA was being entirely transparent about the ill fated appointment of its CEO who, maybe, never was.
We are proud of the record of #thePipeLine and the #WatchingBrief in asking searching questions of those who speak for archaeology.
We broke the story about how CIfA came to blow almost £20k recruiting a CEO who lasted barely six months.
We (and CIfA's members) are still waiting for the answers.
#thePipeLine and the #WatchingBrief also give an independent voice to archaeologists.
Decisions about what stories and Opeds we run are based on the public interest and news value, not whether or not they fit with any person or organisation's view of what #Archaeology is, isn't, or should be.
#thePipeLine and the #WatchingBrief don't report press releases under headlines about baffled archaeologists.
We only produce original content and opinion and we only mention #Stonehenge when it is necessary for a story, usually one about #Stonehenge, like this one from 2024.
Summer is gone, a new University year is here, the culture war rages and archaeologists promoting evidence based research still live rent free in Graham Hancock's head.
#thePipeLine and the #WatchingBrief report archaeology news and current affairs in a way nobody else does (& some wish we didn't).
*For Clarity: A Nathan Baker is a period used to measure the tenure of a senior manager of a heritage body.
It is named for Nathan Baker who was CEO of CIfA for just seven months (if he was ever CEO at all: Ed. See #thePipeLine and #WatchingBrief passim)
This is coverage of the UK Government Spending Review from #thePipeLine heritage news website and the #WatchingBrief.
We will be looking at the announcements from Chancellor Rachel Reeves as they could impact archaeology and heritage.
We are wait for the Chancellor to get to her feet after #PMQ's.
Best I don't mention the leading UK archaeological body, where one of its senior officers threatened the #WatchingBrief and #thePipeLine Heritage News with reporting to the Police for harassment for asking a few questions on a matter of public interest.
