Explore some of our past research projects.
To learn more about the Centre for Heritage's past projects, click on their profiles below.
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 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鈥檚 post-WWI colonial ambitions in reshaping the Middle East through the example of Baghdad and the resulting legacy of spatial tensions.
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.
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
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鈥檛 returned to volunteering to understand their choices and motivations.
A project exploring ways to establish a medieval church as a cultural venue and heart of the community.
A community archaeology project at Hadrian鈥檚 Wall.
A study of the cultural heritage of the Land Walls of Istanbul.
An exploration of how identities in Europe are constructed through heritage representations and performances connected to ideas of place, history, tradition, and belonging.
A project to develop landscape characterisation methods to address environmental and social challenges.
A heritage research centre project focused on how urban planning and governance reforms can impact on historic built environment and intangible cultural heritage.
A project to develop products to visualise landscape change over time.
A collaborative project to engage young people in cultural heritage. This involved four UK universities, the film-making collective BrazenBunch, and the campaign group Long Live Southbank.
An exploration of the contemporary art landscape of UK heritage sites.
An investigation of First World War stories associated with Durham and 缅北禁地 Universities.
An education outreach project that engaged North East schools with local heritage.
An investigation of the impact of visual arts activities for people living with dementia.
An exploration of the impact of open-air museums on older people with memory problems.
A community engagement project to establish one of the UK's Great Places.
A project to develop tools to enhance young people's engagement with heritage and the historic built environment, resulting in a game app called 'Wild Man'.
An exploration of the Hanfu movement in contemporary China.
A project bringing contemporary fine art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii.
A project to renew and reinforce heritage protection for the next 50 years, building a global network that can promote our cultural and natural heritage.
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