Explore some of our current projects.
To learn more about the Centre for Heritage's past projects, click on their profiles below.
en/counter/points investigates the relationships between official and unofficial sites, practices, processes and discourses of public space, culture and integration to uncover multiple (re)negotiations of belonging in a diverse Europe. Photo: Eckersley 2021
Museums are in a moment of change - the idea of what a museum is, who it is for and why it does what it does needs to be considered more carefully, as the institution repositions itself within contemporary social and cultural dynamics of democracy. Photo: Eckersley 2023
The HBBE is a unique research centre. Our contribution to the national research base is to make the UK a leader in this new field of Biotechnology in the Built Environment by creating a research hub capable of creatively designing and building using biotechnology at multiple scales.
The Cessation of Volunteering project will explore how older volunteers (aged 65+) and volunteer managers negotiate transitions out of a particular volunteering role and the impact that this can have in the lives of both volunteers and volunteer managers.
Conversations with managers in the UK heritage sector indicated that they found it harder to involve volunteers in the work of their organisation since the lockdown was eased in 2021. The project will survey people who haven’t returned to volunteering to understand their choices and motivations.
A project exploring the memory politics of former sites of colonial imprisonment and investigating struggles over how these sites have been repurposed (or not).
A project dedicated to the lives of women and children in antiquity that aims to produce new learning about methods of manufacture, decorative techniques, iconography and conservation histories.
An architectural analysis of untapped archival material exploring the British Empire’s post-WWI colonial ambitions in reshaping the Middle East through the example of Baghdad and the resulting legacy of spatial tensions.
An EU-funded project that aims to develop sustainable management model (SMM) for industrial heritage sites (IHS) that can strengthen collective identities, improve the urban landscape, promote eco-friendly solutions, and contribute to the urban economy and a sustainable future of the city.
A collaborative project that devises and guides planning and design strategies for regenerating European heritage and landscape, fostering social inclusiveness, and creating socially, economically and environmentally sustainable future landscapes.
An EU-funded project that brings stakeholder coalitions into processes of adaptive reuse and explores innovative financial models through the opening up abandoned cultural heritage sites to opportunities for increased community cohesion, bottom-up economic activities, and employment possibilities.
A seminar series exploring LGBTQ+ identity and how it connects to cultural, political, and critical ideas around who we are.
An exploration of how heritage issues affect military and post-military landscape sites.
An example of local resources being used to create a community-based curriculum for primary schools on the theme of Ancient Greece.
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