Understanding Public Benefit from Development-led Archaeology

Abstract

• Dr Sadie Watson's UKRI Future Leader Fellowship is a multi-faceted research project, intended to assess and maximise public benefit provision from archaeological work that happens through the planning-led development system. Sadie worked closely throughout lockdown with Dr Harald Fredheim who led on this first phase of the research. This report is an accessible mixture of academic research, our experience of the archaeological sector, and an investigation of other sectors that could be useful in terms of how they measure their public benefit and impact. It is very much intended as a conversation starter, and we have worked further on various aspects of it since we initially wrote it – it was the catalyst for much of what has followed.