Association of Critical Heritage Studies
The Association of Critical Heritage Studies is a network of scholars and researchers working in the broad and interdisciplinary field of heritage and museum studies. Its primary aim is to promote…
Repatriation, healing and wellbeing: understanding success for repatriation policy and practice
A shared understanding of success is critical for best practice in repatriation. However, there is currently little dialogue, or harmony, between museums, agencies, and Indigenous communities about…
Religion and Heritage in East Asia
While religious heritage occupied one fifth world heritage sites in East Asia, yet very little research examines the interrelationship between the two.This project analyses the socio-cultural…
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past
I am currently writing a book Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past, to be published by Routledge in 2019. This project analyzes the ways in which cultural heritage…
Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous human remains in Russian collections
Dr Hilary Howes’ current research project ‘Skulls for the Tsar’ aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the…
Making Migrant Heritage
The rationale for Dr Alexandra Dellios' current research project 'Making Migrant Heritage' grew out of a concern that too little scholarly attention had been paid to how ‘subaltern’ publics,…
Cultural heritage and the mediation of identity, memory and historical narratives
The aim of this work was to document the way museum exhibitions and heritage sites are used to construct and negotiate social and cultural values and meanings. It is accepted that museum and heritage…