Project Management Skills  ARC00057M

Module leader: Jim Symonds

Overview

Most archaeological projects involve teamwork, and team leaders are required to juggle people, time, and budgets to achieve their aims. This module will explore the management of archaeological projects from initial scoping and the formulation of research designs through to the planning and implementation of fieldwork, post-excavation analysis, publication/dissemination of results, and archiving. This module will equip you with a range of skills for use in project management, which can be applied to many of the different kinds of jobs you might graduate into. It includes approaches to the formulation of research questions (also useful for dissertations), evaluation strategies, risk assessments, and ways in which to tender for work and implement and track project work.

This module is particularly geared towards students on Cultural Heritage Management, Archaeology of Buildings, Conservation Studies, Field Archaeology, Archaeological Information Systems, but will also be very useful for students from other programmes who would like more advice on putting together research designs for their dissertation or a future PhD, or who are thinking of working in commercial archaeology,or the heritage sector.