Shared Visions: The North East Regional Research Framework for the Historic Environment (by Petts, D and Gerrard, C) was published in 2006. It provides an academic basis for research, setting out a series of priorities for the North East (comprising County Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Teesside) to help provide structure to commercially driven fieldwork locally and and help in directing all aspects of future research.

The North East Regional Research Framework (NERRF) is a partnership project, funded by English Heritage and undertaken jointly by Durham County Council’s Archaeology Section and the Department of Archaeology, Durham University.

Further information (including a .pdf version of Shared Visions, details of how to order a print copy of the monograph and a link to the Hadrian's wall Research Framework) are available from the NERRF website.

Work on developing the Research Framework for the North West started with a conference, Framing the Past, held in Lancaster in 2001, and began as a full-time project in August 2003. The project is supported by English Heritage and by all of the region's principal archaeological organisations. The project co-ordinator, Mark Brennand, is based within Cumbria County Council. Volume 1 of the Reseach Framework, the Resource Assessment has been published, Volume 2, the Research Agenda and Strategy is due for publication shortly.

Further details available from the North West Archaeological Research Framework pages (hosted by Museum of Liverpool Life), including downloadable versions of the Resource Assessment and draft Strategy and Agenda chapters.

The Yorkshire Regional Research Framework in is in progress.

The regional research framework, published by East Anglian Archaeology, comprises:

• EAA Occasional Paper No.3, 1997: Research and Archaeology: a Framework for the Eastern Counties 1. resource assessment, edited by Jenny Glazebrook (Price £6.50).

• EAA Occasional Paper No.8, 2000: Research and Archaeology: a Framework for the Eastern Counties 2. research agenda and strategy, edited by Nigel Brown and Jenny Glazebrook (Price £6.50).

Ordering information and .pdf versions of the publications are available from the EAA web site.

Given diversity of the region, being tackled in a number of sub-regions;

The Solent Thames Archaeological Research Framework will cover the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The project was launched in 2005 and work is being co-ordinated by a team from Wessex Archaeology.

Further details are avaialble on the STRF's web pages, hosted by Bucks CC, including period-based regional assessment reports and research agendas and period based assessment reports for each county.

The South West Archaeological Research Framework (SWARF) project is collaborative project undertaken by those with an interest in research into the historic environment in the South West of England. These include academics, local authority archaeologists, local societies, the Council for British Archaeology and others.

The first two parts of the project , Resource Assessment and Research Agenda have been published as The Archaeology of South West England. Downloadable versions and details of how to order print copies are available from the SWARF publications page.

Further information about the project, including details of lhow to become involved in the process from the SWARF pages on the Somerset CC website.

The Archaeology of the East Midlands: An Archaeological Resource Assessment and Research Agenda (Editor Nicholas J. Cooper) was published in March 2006 as Leicester Archaeology Monograph No. 13. Work is in pogress on the Research Strategy.

Further information about the project, including downloadable versions of the original versions of the period overviews and the county by county papers (not included in the printed volume) are available from the Research Framework web pages.

The process of producing the West Midlands Regional Research Framework for Archaeology comprise a Resource Audit, a Research Assessment, and a Research Agenda and Strategy which will comprise the final publication to come out of the process.

Further information, including downloadable versions of papers from the Research assessment seminars is available from the Research Framework web site.