The Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies promotes and develops critical heritage and museum studies as an interdisciplinary area of academic analysis and practice that blends material culture with intangible heritage.

Our research and teaching in the Centre address the following issues:

• Cultural and public policy, management practices, cultural institutions
• Community and other grassroots expressions of identity, citizenship, nationhood and sense of place
• The intersection of social justice issues and social activism, with expressions of material heritage and/or intangible heritage, and museums
• Commemorative and memorial practices of marginalised communities
• Immigration and multiculturalism in museums and heritage
• Collection management and curation
• Tourism and global heritage
• Political cultures of globalisation and the international policy context
• Collective memory studies, public history and oral history
• Interpretation and exhibition development
• Visitor studies
• Affect and emotion
• Repatriation and restitution