Glass Ceilings, Glass Parasols and Australian Academic Archaeology

Broadcasting, listening and the mysteries of public engagement: an investigation of the AAA online audience

“…These results mirror the general disciplinary gender trend that sees large numbers of young females at entry level, but a dominance of males in older age categories as female attrition, owing to a range of causes, takes effect (Smith and Burke 2006;Ulm et al 2005Ulm et al , 2013; see also Bowman and Ulm 2009). However, in terms of respondents who use social media for personal (as opposed to AAAspecific) use we do not find any gender-based distinction among our younger users (Figure 10).…”

Another snapshot for the album: a decade of Australian Archaeology in Profile survey data

“…The original survey architecture drew on similar approaches used in the United Kingdom Edwards 2003, 2008) and the United States (Association Research Inc. 2005;Zeder 1997). Subsequent Profiling the Profession surveys have been built on these and other surveys (Aitchison and Rocks-Macqueen 2013;Aitchison et al 2014;Smith and Burke 2006) and have also been further modified to reflect the different shapes of the profession in Australia.…”

“…In the 2010 survey, it was estimated that the under-representation of the archaeological population in the survey was between 25% and 50% (Ulm et al 2013:35). This was based on extrapolating from an indicative response percentage calculated using the number of respondents based in academia for the survey year (2009) in comparison with Smith and Burke's (2006) estimate of academics in archaeology. For the 2014 census period, estimates of the profession have been further refined.…”

Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists

“…Despite these changes, there are very few data documenting the basic pro fi le of the discipline in Australia. The usefulness of previous surveys is often limited by small sample sizes, limited geographic scope or limited employment sector focus (see Colley 2003 ;Feary 1994 ;Frankel 1980 ;Smith and Burke 2006 ;Truscott and Smith 1993 ) . Several studies sourcing data from membership records of major associations (e.g.…”

“…Many of the most useful datasets were assembled to examine aspects of gender participation rates and were published in the proceedings of the Australian "Women in Archaeology" conference series (Balme and Beck 1995 ;Casey et al 1998 ;du Cros and Smith 1993 ) . Smith and Burke ( 2006 ) and Bowman and Ulm ( 2009 ) recently reviewed participation rates in academic archaeology and national competitive grant rounds, respectively. All of these data were gathered to create speci fi c indices rather than to characterise the broader discipline.…”