"The Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield has
been under review and three options are being actively considered by the
University Executive Board, with a decision to be made on Tuesday next week.
These are:
1. To support and invest in the Department.
2. To close the Department, with all staff made redundant.
3. To retain archaeology as a sub-discipline but not as a department. Two key
areas of perceived ‘strength’ (encompassing approximately four staff) to be
realigned to other cognate departments. All the remaining staff to be made
redundant.
The Department staff feel that the key findings presented by the Deputy Vice
Chancellor to them were stacked against Option 1.
Options 2 and 3 will effectively mean the end of archaeology at
Sheffield and the loss of decades of experience, expertise and promotion of the
field, to say nothing of the livelihoods of staff. They are therefore asking
for our support in any way you feel you can, in the very limited window of
opportunity that there is to still influence the decision.
If you would like
to provide your individual support there is an online petition at:
https://www.change.org/p/university-of-sheffield-save-sheffield-s-archaeology-department
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