Session: #409

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
7. 25 years after: The changing world and EAA's impact since the 1995 EAA Annual Meeting in Santiago
Session format:
Round table (only list of confirmed discussants(session co-organizers)

Title & Content

Title:
The Precariat in Archaeology [ECA]
Content:
This round table organized by the EAA Early Careers in Archaeology (ECA) task force will explore the current challenges and opportunities facing early career researchers in archaeology, here defined as the ‘precariat of archaeology’.

Objectives:
•To examine the shared experiences and challenges, both positive and negative, that early career researchers in archaeology have long faced
•To assess how these experiences have impacted on archaeologists pursuing an academic career in archaeology
•To highlight how the growing trend in academia towards fixed-term, temporary and underpaid jobs is now transforming these shared experiences, impacting on early career researchers as individuals, on their economic and mental well-being, and the discipline more widely
•To outline how the EAA Early Careers task force is seeking to measure and assess the impact of these changes and to present some results of initial consultation work
•To discuss how solidarity can be created amongst the precariat and most robust support offered within the discipline at all levels of practice
Keywords:
early careers, archaeology profession, job market, research freedom, mental health
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
EAA Early Careers in Archaeology (ECA) task force

Organisers

Main organiser:
Maxime Brami (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Stephanie Emra (Austria) 2
Aldo Malagó (Germany) 3
Antoine Muller (Israel) 4
Affiliations:
1. Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2. University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Anatomy
3. Monrepos, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
4. The Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem