Women and Protected Wrecks Survey |
With 2023 marking the 50th anniversary of the Protection of Wrecks Act, it is timely to reflect on the statistics that show of the 32 Principal Licensees only one is female, and for other licences issued, such as visitor licences, only 10% of these were issued to women (Historic England, June 2021).
The Maritime Archaeology Trust is undertaking a project to better understand women’s involvement in Protected and Designated Wrecks and to gather information on attitudes to, and experiences of, involvement. This important baseline information will help consider potential reasons why so few women are PW licensees and relatively low numbers are involved in PWs and look to future actions to address this situation.
This survey is aimed at any women working with PWs and other Designated wrecks, whether PW team members, diving visits to PWs, non-diving research and analysis, or working with recovered collections from PWs. As well as any women with an interest in PWs, diving or maritime archaeology. If you have not had previous involvement with PWs we would still like to hear from you, please answer what you can.
The Maritime Archaeology Trust is undertaking a project to better understand women’s involvement in Protected and Designated Wrecks and to gather information on attitudes to, and experiences of, involvement. This important baseline information will help consider potential reasons why so few women are PW licensees and relatively low numbers are involved in PWs and look to future actions to address this situation.
This survey is aimed at any women working with PWs and other Designated wrecks, whether PW team members, diving visits to PWs, non-diving research and analysis, or working with recovered collections from PWs. As well as any women with an interest in PWs, diving or maritime archaeology. If you have not had previous involvement with PWs we would still like to hear from you, please answer what you can.
How we will use the data
Your responses are fully confidential and will not be seen by anyone outside the Maritime Archaeology Trust and Historic England project team. This project is funded by Historic England.
Your contribution is enormously valued.
All data received will be used only for research purposes, only anonymised data will be used in public reports. No information that could be used to identify any individual or organisation will be made publicly available.
If you require further advice or information, please email lauren.tidbury@maritimearchaeologytrust.org
Your contribution is enormously valued.
All data received will be used only for research purposes, only anonymised data will be used in public reports. No information that could be used to identify any individual or organisation will be made publicly available.
If you require further advice or information, please email lauren.tidbury@maritimearchaeologytrust.org