Image above: Durham Castle
Academic Staff
Heritage Partnerships (HP) marks a step-change in our engagement with cultural heritage protection. Fieldwork-driven evaluation of key monuments and landscapes, and collaborations drawing on in-field and remote sensing methods have created extensive new datasets that underpin knowledge exchange, training, advocacy and the creation of new toolkits to assess and mitigate threats to heritage. Co-production and responsiveness to local needs are fundamental to our research. For example, we work in the UK with the National Trust and with the national heritage agencies, and with national and transnational heritage bodies overseas, with a special focus in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. We connect communities with their living religious heritage, and work with disadvantaged communities in Europe and the global south, engaging them with the ‘uncomfortable heritage’ of their recent past. We have mobilised our practitioner expertise to lead on heritage conservation agendas e.g. with the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and ICOM-CC, and collaborate on training in museum skills in Jordan and North Africa. We are particularly active in the protection of heritage from conflicts and natural disasters, and the meanings and values of cultural heritage
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Image above: Bullet damage on the theatre of Sabratha (Libya)
