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Visiting Research Fellow 2023-24
Hana Morel is the Museum of London’s Sustainability and Advocacy Lead, and Scientific Coordinator of the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change – a project that brought together ICOMOS, UNESCO and the IPCC, with ICLEI and IUCN as partners. Previously, she worked as Sustainability Manager for the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, CITiZAN; Senior Policy Advisor (Climate Change) at Historic England (2020-21), and postdoctoral Research Associate for the AHRC Heritage Priority Area (2017-2020). She developed the one-year follow-on funding project, Opening New Pathways to Impact across Heritage Research, Policy and Practice, which built on her work in the AHRC Heritage Priority Area to transform and increase understanding of policies’ impact on the heritage sector. Hana was awarded her PhD from University College London in 2016 where she explored the development of planning policy and archaeology in global cities and its impact on archaeology and heritage practice.
Project Description
I will be working on leveraging new and existing research and activity taking place on a global scale, to address the knowledge gaps apparent for both supporting and strengthening social and environmental prosperity and connectedness in place-based communities via culture and heritage. This work builds on research, practice and policy trending in the UK and beyond, and bridges fields of research, policy and practice in heritage (both natural and cultural) and the understanding of the past (e.g. through archaeology) as a resource for sustainability and sustainable development. My research will look through an urban-rural interface, taking into account that cities must act as critical solutions for climate resilience and inclusive growth, whilst acknowledging the need to address urban-rural linkages for managing inclusive transformation-to-sustainability for building on socio-ecological approaches.
