Cultural Heritage (Research)

This programme will offer you the opportunity to conduct in-depth, rigorous research on a specific problem within the appropriate disciplinary environment, under the supervision of experts in the field.

Once understood as a conservative discipline, cultural heritage is emerging as a set of experimental practices, engaging with contemporary developments including:

• new technologies

• reconceptualisations of the tangible and intangible

• shifting global relations

• changing epistemologies of the past

• movements towards participatory democratisation

This evolving discourse is too complex to belong to one single subject area or its traditions. The Cultural Heritage PhD offers a way to engage with these multidisciplinary considerations and to benefit from synoptic insights when addressing them.

Interdisciplinary research
The cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral model of this programme offers you the opportunity to:

• research a singular problem in-depth within the appropriate disciplinary environment

• set your disciplinary approach within the context of alternate discourses, framing new contributions to the field

We therefore welcome proposals with a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including:

• anthropology

• archaeology

• computing and informatics

• education

• history and classics

• international development

• law

• religious studies

• science and technology studies

• sociology

• the practices, histories, and theories of:

• art

• architecture

• music

• literature

• language

We also welcome any combination of the above.

We invite you to consider how your approach and contribution might enhance the field and the practice of cultural heritage, helping scholars, citizens, and institutions to address urgent global challenges, both within and beyond the academy.