Partnerships

Our research has implications for organisations from industry, culture and government.

From policymakers and cultural institutions to major companies, interest in heritage management and heritage science is continuing to grow.

We share our research听openly to create a shared knowledge environment with听partners, whether by engaging practitioners, professionals or policymakers in our teaching, or involving UK and international academics, heritage and industry partners in our听research.

We have collaborated with many of the world鈥檚 leading organisations in the field, including Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, the Getty Conservation Institute and UNESCO.

How to engage with us

Academic partners

When developing academic collaboration, we seek听partners whose expertise and research facilities come together with their own. We have strategic partnerships with the Italian National Research Council (CNR), research partnerships such as EU projects and COST networks, and training partnerships with the University of Oxford and Brighton University.

We are听open to visiting researchers, as well as post-doctoral researchers such as Marie Curie Fellows. The academic disciplines the institute collaborates with ranges from arts and humanities to social and natural sciences, engineering and technology.

Case study:听Ghent University: Led by MyAV范 Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, our partnership with promotes听academic exchanges in the fields of building physics, sustainable heritage and moisture in buildings. We are working to promote collaboration with听Ghent University through听co-supervised MSc dissertation projects and听PhD theses, and the sharing of听research and teaching materials.

Heritage partners

From policymakers and cultural institutions to major companies, interest in heritage management and heritage science is continuing to grow.

We share research openly with our partners to create a shared knowledge environment. We have engaged听practitioners, professionals &听policymakers in our teaching, and have听involved听UK and international academics, heritage and industry partners in our听research.

We collaborate听with many of the world鈥檚 leading organisations in the field, including Historic Royal Palaces, English Heritage, the Getty Conservation Institute and UNESCO.

Case study: The Academic Heritage Partnership

Our partnership with听 aims to strengthen the link between heritage public policy, practice and its broad academic research base. It is designed to enhance heritage education and training, research outputs, outcomes, skills and service. We are providing collaborative education and training opportunities for students and heritage professionals, as well as听sharing听resources including staff, equipment, expertise and skills. We have undertaken听joint research projects and shared support for and participation in providing historic environment services and shared institutional networks. Stage 1 of the implementation of the Academic Heritage Partnership was the co-creation and delivery of a Connected Curriculum short course to pilot the Heritage Evidence Foresight and Policy MSc.

Case study:听Historic Environment Scotland

Our partnership with makes use of our shared听research interests in conservation and monitoring of degradation of historic听structures, building on our existing work on citizen science. Through this we听set up听an EPSRC DTP funded scholarship, including funding for a training course on building simulation for the PhD candidate.

We听developed the听, a ground-breaking citizen science project that uses visitor photographs of Scottish heritage sites to help inform their condition monitoring and conservation.听Our听听engages听volunteers and local communities in scientific research projects.听We received an EPSRC Impact Award on citizen science for our work as part of this partnership.

Case study:听Heritage Malta

Our partnership with spans over 18 years and has had mutual benefits and added value for听both organisations. The partnerships enables our听Sustainable Heritage MSc students to participate in fieldwork听on听cultural heritage sites in Malta. Project sites have included a听variety of museums,听landmarks, and national monuments.听Most recently, our students presented their field work in Fort Delimara to British High Commissioner in Malta and Heritage Malta. As well as听enriching the academic experience of our听students, the听partnership has also benefitted听Heritage Malta, enabling听further protection of听world renowned cultural heritage sites.

Our previous projects with Heritage Malta:

2004-05: Condition assessment and feasibility study report on Auberge de France for the purpose of its conversion into a national museum of the social development of the Maltese language
2005-06: National Museum of Fine Arts Valletta, Malta environmental study balancing the needs of the buildings, collections and people to inform the management of the NMFA and proposed refurbishment project
2006-07: Ghar Dalam museum and cave feasibility study
2007-08: Environment and collections Folklore and Science Museums, Citadel, Rabat, Gozo
2008-09: Feasibility study report for the Malta Maritime Museum
2009-10: Feasibility study of the collections environment in the National Museum of Archaeology basement level
2010-11: Inquisitor鈥檚 Palace, Museum of Ethnography, Birgu, Malta
2011-12: Fort St Elmo relocation study recommendations and action plan
2012-13: Back home project relocation study on the National Museum of Fine Arts
2013-14: Birgu Armoury Inquisitor鈥檚 Palace 鈥� Reserve collections relocation study
2014-15: Malta鈥檚 buses 鈥� a new route for industrial heritage
2015-16: A new museum for Gozo
2016-17: St Paul鈥檚 Catacombs complex, Rabat, Malta, environmental impact study
2017-18: Environmental Study and Heritage Impact Assessment of the Interpretation Centre and Heritage Park linking to the Megalithic Temples in 臓gantija, Xag魔ra, Gozo
2018-19: The chapel of the nativity of the Virgin, Fort St Angelo
2019-20: Environmental study of the Domus Romana Museum, Mdina, Malta
2020-21: Missed due to COVID
2021-22: A study of Villa Guardamangia, Piet脿, Malta
2022-23: Fort Delimara (in progress)

Industry partners

Increasingly, businesses are seeing opportunities in the institute's research to collaborate and develop new or improved products for competitive advantage.

We work听together with companies to develop the innovation potential of their research. SMEs and large international companies have sought our expertise and knowledge in sectors ranging from sensors and instrumentation to consumer manufacturing and insurance.

Our links听with industry associations have enabled the institue to develop an enterprising culture which it passes on to researchers and students. We are also keen to partner with commercial arms of heritage organisations.

We engage听in applied research in support of the objectives of organisations including:

Arts and Humanities Research Council
Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
EU Framework Programmes for Research
European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science
National Heritage Science Forum
Plastics Heritage European Association
Science and Technology Facilities Council

Policy partners

Our research regularly forms the basis of advice to policymakers in Government. Just a short distance from Parliament, we offer听a ready source of world-leading expertise on matters of sustainble heritage. Our听Director, Professor May Cassar CBE, has听served as special adviser to the inquiry by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology into Science and Heritage. We have听also advised the European Commission and European Parliament.

Policy partners have included:

Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Museum, Libraries and Archives Council

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