Responsible Post Holder Meeting

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A meeting for Registered Organisations and their Responsible Post Holders or a delegate nominated by the RO's RPH.

Our next Responsible Post Holder meeting will be held on Wednesday, 18 November from 10:30 - 13:00.

This meeting is for Registered Organisations and their Responsible Post Holders or a delegate nominated by the RO's RPH.

 

Responsible Post Holders meeting

Wednesday 18 November 2020 10.30 – 13.00

A zoom link will be sent out before the meeting

“Challenges facing the sector”

 

10.30 – 11.15     Launching Dig Digital – CIfA’s online guidance for digital archiving in archaeological projects. Dr Manda Forster

 

11.20 – 12.00 Breakout rooms (Choose your breakout room here)

  1. Maintaining business resilience and boosting growth
  2. Planning Reforms
  3. Helping the sector to help itself

 

12.15 – 13.00 Discussion

  • We will return from our breakout rooms to share key points from discussions

 

Breakout room 1: Maintaining business resilience and boosting growth

This year has been extraordinarily difficult for Registered Organisations, with the impact being felt at all levels. The meeting will be an opportunity to discuss issues of current interest with peers. As always, this is your meeting and the agenda is led by you, the Responsible Post Holders.

What specific challenges you have encountered thus far as a result of COVID? What key challenges do you envisage will be brought by Brexit? Are there any lessons that can be applied from the last recession a decade ago? What measures have you have put in place during the pandemic? What tactics and actions will assist in the lead up to Brexit? How do you see your future strategy developing? Do you have staff dedicated to contract management and bid writing and is this cost effective? How are you allocating your resources to maintain your resilience and boost growth?

Breakout room 2: Planning Reforms

Proposals in the planning reform white paper in England have highlighted that planning-led archaeology as it has developed over the past 30 years cannot expect to remain fixed in its practice and approaches. Partially related to economic challenges like COVID and Brexit, there are pressures to streamline processes and give increased certainty to developers about what they can build and where. There are also opportunities presented by technology and new methodologies to enhance how we work and how we achieve public benefit. Using the English reforms as a current example of threat and opportunity, but reflecting on policy & practice elsewhere, how do Registered Organisations envision the future of planning-led archaeology? Rob Lennox will be on hand to discuss CIfA’s advocacy work.

Breakout room 3: Helping the sector to help itself

Challenges and opportunities go hand in hand. Times may be difficult but there are also  opportunities to build sector capacity, relevance and resilience, using government and other funding, with a focus on recruitment, skills development and working towards a more diverse and inclusive profession with public benefit at its heart.  Dr Sadie Watson will be talking about her UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship ‘Measuring, maximising and transforming public benefit from UK Government infrastructure investment in archaeology’

November 18th, 2020 10:30 AM (BST/UTC+1)   to   1:00 PM (BST/UTC+1)