Research: Arid Environmental Systems
Preserving Our Past Research Cluster
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Consensus or collision? A site-specific approach to integrating methodologies for the historic environment
The UK's historic environment has been widely recognised as an important national economic and cultural resource. This resource is both highly diverse and affected by a wide range of, often intertwined, pressures. Whilst huge progress has been made over the past century in understanding, conserving and presenting various aspects of our historic environment, studies have tended to be very fragmented and usually focused on a single challenge to one type or location of historical environment. In order to manage this important resource more effectively over the 21st century, improved and genuine cross-disciplinary research effort is needed. One key barrier to such improved research is the plethora of different methods utilised by workers with backgrounds in different areas of arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Our research cluster provided an effective, productive, tangible, and imaginative way of bringing together experts with a wide range of methodological experience relevant to the study and management of the historic environment in order to create new awareness and facilitate development of co-ordinated future research collaborations. These aims were met through a developmental sequence of meetings involving core participants, organised by a well-qualified cluster research assistant who, with the Principal Investigator and Co-investigator was responsible for steering the whole research cluster over the year of its operation. We involved 23 core participants in fields ranging from synchrotron radiation applications to video art.
- Principal Investigator: Prof. Heather Viles
- Co-investigators: Dr David Harvey, Dr Dan Hicks
- Cluster Assistant: Dr Mary Thornbush
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