CIfA

UPDATE: ACCOUNTS SHOW APPOINTMENT OF NO GO CEO NATHAN BAKER COULD HAVE COST CIfA MEMBERS OVER £30k

In February 2025 thePipeLine revealed how the UK Chartered Institute for Archaeologists , the professional body for UK archaeologists, could have spent as much as £19,000 in the appointment...

The EAA Gaza Debacle, CIfA’s CEO Who [Maybe] Never Was and Not the Nuclear Steal: thePipeLine’s Top Stories in 2025

Thank you for your support of thePipeLine during 2025. Before we throw the old year onto the spoil...

RECRUITING CIfA’S NO GO CEO COULD HAVE COST MEMBERS OVER £19K

One week on from the shock announcement that the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists...

CE OH NO! CIFA BOSS BAKER STEPS DOWN AMID QUESTIONING IF HE EVER LEFT PREVIOUS JOB

The world of professional archaeology was in shock on Thursday following the sudden announcement that Nathan Baker,...

EGM LEAVES CIfA WITH A PUSHME-PULLYOU PAY PROBLEM

In February a row broke out within the UK's principle membership body for archaeologists, the Chartered Institute for...

LINCOLN HOTEL SPA ROW GETS PERSONAL AS PROJECT ARCHITECT ATTACKS ARCHAEOLOGIST CRITIC

The controversial planning application by property developer Andrew Long to build a spa facility and small swimming pool in the listed White Hart hotel...

the Big Read: TORPEDOED! ...

Staff and Students on the streets to campaign to save archaeology at Sheffield University. On 10 September 2021 a remote meeting took place between Neil...

“FOR SAFETY’S SAKE” ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS SHOULD BE STOOD DOWN SAYS HISTORIC ENGLAND

Responding to the growing controversy over the continuation of some developer funded archaeological work, heritage regulator and the Government's principal statutory adviser on heritage...

PROSPECT & CIfA WILL STAND BY MEMBERS CONCERNED ABOUT COVID-19 HEALTH AND SAFETY

After a day of rising concerns over the ability of the construction industry to respond appropriately to the Government's health advice regarding the increasingly...

NEW SURVEY SUGGESTS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FEAR BREXIT AND THE FUTURE

With the ongoing Brexit process  in Britain morphing into a political crisis which sees political history apparently being made on an almost hourly basis, what...