Explore some of our current projects.
To learn more about the Centre for Heritage's past projects, click on their profiles below.
An exploration of how heritage issues affect military and post-military landscape sites.
An example of local resources being used to create a community-based curriculum for primary schools on the theme of Ancient Greece.
A seminar series exploring LGBTQ+ identity and how it connects to cultural, political, and critical ideas around who we are.
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 architectural analysis of untapped archival material exploring the British Empire’s post-WWI colonial ambitions in reshaping the Middle East through the example of Baghdad and the resulting legacy of spatial tensions.
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 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.
Research-led workshops hosted together by the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences and Medical Sciences that uses items from the Shefton Collection at the Great North Museum: Hancock to investigate haptic learning in the fields of Fine Art, Archaeology and Psychology.
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).