The research gathered insight into individuals’ experiences through three strands of work: an online survey, one-to-one storytelling sessions, and focus groups. Focus groups centred on specific areas such as socio-economic status, disability, race and ethnicity, and gender, allowing for in-depth discussions on challenges faced by different communities. Storytelling sessions provided individuals a platform to share their personal experiences directly, giving voice to nuanced, often challenging perspectives on workplace inequality. 

The resulting report outlines key findings and presents actionable commitments from CIfA, along with sector-wide recommendations to improve access to and the quality of archaeological careers in the UK. Recommendations from the final report, Qualitative inequalities research for the archaeology sector, have been incorporated into CIfA’s Business Plan in order for it to take them forward.