Community-Led Pasts and Futures

Thematic research encompassing ‘Community-Led Pasts and Futures’ includes:  

• theory and practice of community and development archaeology
• heritage and wellbeing
• archives and ethics
• cultural heritage of diaspora communities
• memorialising ancient landscapes
• issues of science capital and identity with under-represented audiences
• community-collaborative research exploring museums, decolonisation, and social justice
• co-production of research with diverse stakeholders and publics

Selected current and recent research projects  

• Advancing Access to the UCL Archaeological Reference Collections (A3RC)
• Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project
• CHANSE Knowledge Exchange
• Children and the Material Culture of Conflict
• Collections, Conviviality, Culture Wars: UK postcolonial redress, 1997-present
• Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage
• Evaluating the cultural cost of development in the new South Africa
• Hendon School Community Archaeology Project
• Heritage Futures
• Milking it: colonialism, heritage and everyday engagement with dairy
• Mobilising collections histories for institutional change: Egypt at the Horniman Museum
• PARINÃ - Memorialising Ancestral Landscapes of the Brazilian Northwest Amazon
• People Based Conservation
• Petrie Palesinian Project
• Restricted Access Pilot Project
• Revealing a Hidden Sporting Legacy – Documenting the UK’s rich late 1970s Skatepark Heritage
• Skatepark Heritage Research Group
• The Archaeology of Air Raid Shelters
• Theatres of the Past
• Weaving fibres of resistance: Tikuna tree bark and identity in the Amazon