As a social researcher whose work focuses on heritage in an interdisciplinary way, I enjoy making connections, bringing people, ideas, and practices together around heritage, with care and criticality. The questions driving my research, are around understandings of the political nature of heritage, and what people think heritage is and does. My work focuses on how principal actors in the heritage sector see their own roles and responsibilities, as well as the roles and agencies of the heritage assets, policies, and practices. Building on this, I use intersectional feminist theory to explore new theoretical avenues and framings to reimagine heritage practices.

In OpenHeritage (2018-2022) a ‘Research and Innovation Action’ funded under H2020), I am a researcher and Co-Investigator. In this project, we look at the practices, processes, and policies of adaptive heritage reuse. Our aim here is to experiment with co-creative, participatory, finance, and management innovations, whilst reflecting on them in a constructive and critical manner.

I am UK PI for CONSIDER, which is funded under MSCA RISE focussing on the planning and politics of post-industrial cities (2021-2025). If you are based at Newcastle University, and you are interested in visiting one of our project partners, do get in touch!

As the co-lead on the Gender and Diversity Theme in the 'OurWorldHeritage' initiative, I was involved in organizing and hosting a range of online webinars and conversations, their recordings can now be found on the website as well as on YouTube

The book I co-edited with Eva Stegmeijer A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe will be published gold open access with Edward Elgar Publishers

Find me on Google Scholar

Twitter: @loena

I am involved in two European projects.

In OpenHeritage (2018-2022) a ‘Research and Innovation Action’ funded under H2020), I am a researcher and Co-I. In this project, we look at the practices, processes, and policies of adaptive heritage reuse. Our aim here is to experiment with co-creative, participatory, finance, and management innovations, whilst reflecting on them in a constructive and critical manner.

I am UK PI for CONSIDER, which is funded under MSCA RISE focussing on the planning and politics of post-industrial cities (2021-2025). If you are based at Newcastle University, and you are interested in visiting one of our project partners, do get in touch!

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome any postgraduate applications to study issues that fit with those research interests

Current

Byung Choon Hwang: Community-led heritage regeneration in Korea

Gulnur Cengiz: Stories and landscapes: Blaenavon's industrial heritage

my teaching include 

ARC8065 : Cities and Culture

TCP7024 : Conservation and the City (module leader)

Dissertation tutor TCP3099, TCP8099 

Guest lecturer MA International Heritage Management at and Durham University

previous

APL2002 : Alternative practice: European Fieldtrip (field trip leader 2017)

TCP8024 : Consultancy Project (group tutor 2017)

Guest lectures to TCP8911, TCP2023, and APL1001

In 2014, I obtained my Dutch University Teaching Qualification (VSNU, TU/e).

• Stegmeijer E, Veldpaus L, ed. Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. In Press.
• Veldpaus L, Kisic V, Stegmeijer E, Janssen J. Towards a More Just World: An Agenda for Transformative Heritage Planning Futures. In: Stegmeijer,E;Veldpaus,L, ed. A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2021. In Press.
• Veldpaus L, Szemzo H. Heritage as a matter of care, and conservation as caring for the matter. In: Gabauer,A;Knierbein,S;Cohen,N;Lebuhn,H;Trogal,K;Viderman, T;Haas, T, ed. Care and the City, New Perspectives in Urban Studies and Planning Theory. Routledge, 2021. In Press.
• Veldpaus L, Krajewska O, Miah J, Szemzö H. Adaptive Heritage Reuse: Learning from policy and governance frameworks across Europe. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, 2020. Available at: https://openheritage.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Open-Heritage-policy-brief-01-pages.pdf.
• Veldpaus L, Pendlebury J. Heritage as a Vehicle for Development: The Case of Bigg Market, Newcastle upon Tyne. Planning Practice and Research 2019, n/a, n/a.
• Pendlebury J, Scott M, Veldpaus L, van der Toorn Vrijthoff W, Redmond D. After the Crash: the conservation-planning assemblage in an era of austerity. European Planning Studies 2019, ePub ahead of Print.
• Veldpaus L, Bokhove Helma. Integrating Policy: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Amsterdam. In: Pereira Roders, A.; Bandarin, F, ed. Reshaping Urban Conservation: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action. Singapore: Springer, 2019, pp.111-122.
• Pendlebury J, Veldpaus L. Heritage and Brexit. Planning Theory & Practice 2018, 19(3), 448-453.
• Tomka G, Kisic V, Veldpaus L, ed. Dossier Petrovaradin: Managing Historic Urban Landscapes. Novi Sad, Serbia; Belgrade, Serbia: Faculty of sport and tourism, Novi Sad; Europa Nostra Belgrade; Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Novi Sad, 2019.
• Veldpaus L, Pendlebury J. Brexit & Heritage: report ESRC IAA funded workshop. Newcastle upon Tyne: Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University, 2017.
• Law A, Veldpaus L. Colonial nostalgia, growth coalitions and urban planning in China. Urbanistica Informazioni 2017, 272(Special issue, part 4), 400-408.
• Veldpaus L, Pereira Roders A. Historic urban landscape approach as a tool for sustainable urban heritage management. In: Asikainen S; Brites C; Plebańczyk K; Rogač Mijatović L; Soini K, ed. Culture in sustainability: towards a transdisciplinary approach. Helsinki: University of Jyväskylä, 2017, pp.61-73.
• Veldpaus L. Amsterdam: Heritage policy analysis tool for the HUL approach. In: The HUL Guidebook: Managing heritage in dynamic and constantly changing urban environments. Ballarat, Shanghai: WHITRAP, City of Ballarat, Tongji University, Federation University Australia, 2016, pp.50-55.
• Sobhani Sanjbod H, Hermans LMC, Reijnders DAH, Veldpaus L. Captain, where can we find the attributes?. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice 2016, 7(2-3), 177-188.
• Veldpaus L. Heritage management and sustainable development in perspective: theory, law, and practice. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2015, 5(3).
• Veldpaus L. Historic urban landscapes : framing the integration of urban and heritage planning in multilevel governance. Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2015.
• Veldpaus L. Reconnecting the city: the historic urban landscape approach and the future of urban heritage [Book review]. Cultural Trends 2015, 24(4), 340-342.
• Veldpaus L, Pereira Roders A. Learning from a Legacy: Venice to Valletta. Change Over Time 2014, 4(2), 244-263.
• Veldpaus L, Pereira Roders A, Colenbrander BJF. Urban Heritage: Putting the Past into the Future. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice 2013, 4(1), 3-18.
• Veldpaus L, Wacogne R. Industrial Heritage and Conservation Planning, changing governance practices. In: Stegmeijer, E; Veldpaus, L, ed. A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. In Press.
• Stegmeijer E, Veldpaus L, Janssen J. Introduction: The State of Heritage Planning in Europe. In: Stegmeijer,E;Veldpaus,L, ed. A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2021. In Preparation.