A Precarious Future: Five Takeaways from our Survey of Early Career Researchers in Archaeology

The results of our 2021 international online survey of 419 early career researchers in archaeology are now available Open Access on European Journal of Archaeology

Last chance to have your say – take our survey before 1st October 2021

Thank you to everyone who has taken our survey so far, we’ve had over 400 responses! We are now in the preliminary stages of preparing our findings and data from the survey for publication and, therefore, we will be closing the current survey on 1st October 2021. So, this is your last chance to contribute …

Interview with former EAA President Professor Kristian Kristiansen

The latest in our ECA series of interviews with archaeologists is now online! Professor Dr Kristian Kristiansen (Gothenburg University), the initiator and first President of the EAA answers questions, and discusses, about his early career and progression, the EAA, ERC grants, women in academia, and the problems facing current early career archaeologists. Read the interview …

The ECA Website is now live

We are delighted to launch our brand new website, which will provide a place for discussion of issues that particularly affect Early Career Archaeologists (ECAs). Bear with us as we continue to upload content. We want the website to be as user-friendly and functional as possible, and would welcome any suggestion for improvement. Please e-mail …

Our Community approved by the EAA

The EAA Executive Board approved our application to form the ‘Early Career Archaologists’ (ECA) Community. The Community web page is now live by clicking the Community title at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAACommunities. The ECA Community will continue the activities of the ‘Early Research Careers in Archaeology’ (ERCA) task force, created in November 2019 to address employment precarity in the …