Hidden Heritage Conference 2016

The 1st conference in Dorset on Hidden Heritage 

We are delighted to invite everyone to this conference which seeks to create a wider debate as to what is heritage and how we can encourage greater public participation,

Below is a full list of the speakers presenting papers and if your interested and what to take part the link is  https://hiddenheritage2016.wordpress.com

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Sadiq Khalil Abid

Working Title “The khan Al-Shilan in Iraq: appraising and synthesising cultural heritage significance and its impact on the holy city of Najaf conservation management”

Sadiq is a PhD student at the school of architecture, at the University of Sheffield. He is focusing on the conservation management of the Iraq built heritage with particular reference to Najaf, a historical pilgrimage city.  The study is sponsored by HCED Iraq.

In 2001 he gains a BSc in architecture, 2008 MSc in Architecture / urban design from the University of Technology in Baghdad (dissertation:  Environmental impact assessment on the townscape of the historical commercial streets in Baghdad). Sadiq’s research interests are cultural heritage studies, conservation management and Islamic architecture. He has worked as a project manager at MOE- Iraq (2002-2012). Since 2001 he has been a member of the Iraqi engineers association.

Valeria Amoretti

Working Title Archaeological Heritage in Naples: Hidden or Used?

Valeria is an Archaeologist and Physical Anthropologist with a great passion for Cultural Anthropology. She achieved her degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Pisa University. She is specialized in Forensic Anthropology, in Paleopathology, in Christian Archeology and Museum Sciences. She was Research Fellow in L’Aquila University, were she had her PhD in medieval Archeology. She is an archeologist and anthropologist both in the fieldwork and in laboratory, and thanks to this ability she is now a collaborator at the Superintendence of many Italian Regions (Liguria, Toscana, Trentino, Abruzzo). She took part in 52 archeological campaigns, 32 lab works on materials and 30 publications. The will to make known the work and the discoveries related to the archeology and the heritage led her to attend a second PhD in Architecture, Design and Cultural Heritage in Naples, with the specific intent to study how to communicate archeology. She fell in love with this city, its connected heritage and its unique cultural anthropology. Currently she is working on a PhD Thesis on “Musealization of Human Remains”, and she is attracted to the perspectives of the application of new technologies to cultural heritage for the enhancement of archeological sites and objects.

Kathryn Banfield 

Working Title “Hidden Skills; Hidden Dangers: Addressing the skills gaps in the traditional building sector”

Kathryn manages the Heritage Skills Centre at Lincoln Castle, with responsibility for programme development as well as delivery of training and raising awareness of the heritage construction sector. Her formal training is in Archaeology (BA Hons) and Heritage Management (MA), with an interest in historic buildings, specifically traditional skills training, being developed during her time at North of England Civic Trust working on the Heritage Skills Initiative. Kathryn has delivered training programmes on a wide range of private and grant funded projects as well as coordinating awareness raising events such as the Heritage Skills Festival in the North East and, more recently, 1000 Years of Traditional Crafts in Lincoln. She sits on the Heritage Practice Training Programme Advisory Board and the Advisory Group for SPAB’s Maintenance Cooperative project in Lincolnshire. Kathryn is an Affiliate member of IHBC working towards her Associate membership.

Tristan Boyle

Working Title “Inside What’s Within Underneath – History We Want To Hide”

A graduate of the University of Aberdeen with a degree in Archaeology with
Chemistry. He has worked on trace mercury analysis on ancient hair as his undergraduate dissertation and also has an interest in public archaeology and outreach. Tristan is an early career archaeologist working in Scotland. His current contributions to the online archaeology blogosphere can be found on the Anarchaeologist Podcast, a online radio show which he runs as part of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Tristan has been working in collaboration with other online archaeology to promote archaeology, especially topics and themes that are often missed out by traditional media.

David M Bruce

Working Title “Hidden in plain view”

Visiting Research Fellow in Tourism at University of West of England (Formerly Principal Lecturer, Bristol Business School, UWE); Academic Adviser to European Walled Towns (EWT) formerly the Walled Towns Friendship Circle: researching – their history, tourism and sustainable development as well as the archives of the EWT itself . David also research’s 19th Century Tourism history associated with Baedeker, Murray and other Guide books. David has also worked on and led bids and projects funded by the European Commission and British Council. He has lectured in tourism at Bristol Polytechnic, now University of West of England, Bristol 1983 -2008, leading field study trips in England, Wales and across Europe. I have been external examiner for tourism at Staffordshire, Manchester Met, (Masters degrees) and Swansea Met (UG) Universities.
Before 1983, David was a Marketing Manager and Transport Planner with National Bus Company in Chester, Oxford and London. Studying History, Economics and Town Planning at St Andrews (MA) and Edinburgh (MPhil) Universities (thesis on ‘Pedestrian Priority Shopping Streets’ 1975) professionally qualified in Town Planning (MRTPI to 2012), Transport (MCILT) and Tourism (MTS).

David Connolly

Working Title “Personal History”

A field and buildings archaeologist for the past 30 years he has worked in a variety of positions and locations from Scotland to Iraq and Germany to Turkmenistan. He works closely with metal detecting groups, the Portable Antiquities Scheme and other interested groups to ensure wider cooperation within the field of public and accessible archaeology. He is an advocated for training in practical skills for both professional archaeologists and volunteers in order to chart progress and open the professiona to a wide range of people. His recent success of the BAJR Archaeology skills passport is to be followed by the careers passport. Mr Connolly is co-editor of the volunteer journal Past Horizons, founder and director of the British Archaeological Jobs and Resources website which advertises and advises on archaeological placement and salary structures. He also runs Connolly Heritage Consultancy carrying out fieldwork along with co-directing the Rampart Scotland field Training School in East Lothian and Aberdeenshire. He is an advocate of open discussion and runs the large facebook group for British Archaeology which supports all that are interested in UK archaeology –commercial, academic, research and public.

I started what was to become my archaeological career in 1983, when I was taken on as a ‘digger’ on a Manpower Services Commision scheme in Cumbria. This was followed by another MSC scheme in Trafford, and work on the circuit. It was clear that if I wished to continue in archaeology I would need a degree. I did not want to go back to school and I was fortunate that Prof. Arnold Aspinall let me into Bradford on the strength of a five minute chat in a corridor. The Department of Archaeological Sciences was and still is an excellent place to study archaeology. I was then awarded a NERC studentship at the University of Edinburgh for my PhD where Ian Ralston and Geraint Coles were my supervisors.

Dr Matthew Hardy 

“Modernism, Tradition, and Conservation: How ‘heritage’ replaced ‘monument’ as the key concept in conservation”?

Matthew is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community. After working at the Foundation to establish INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism) from 2000, he served as its Secretary until 2009 when he returned to run the Foundation’s academic education programmes. Matthew has lectured and published widely in support of INTBAU, editing the book The Venice Charter Revisited in 2011, and has taught on both course work and summer programmes, as a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He maintained a practice in architecture and urban design in Europe and Australia after registering as an architect in Australia in 1983. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Wales, a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Adelaide, a Diploma from The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and an International Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is co-founder and co-editor of Journal of Urbanism, published by Routledge.

Andrew Hoaen

Working Title “The hidden heritage of Veteran Trees and ancient woods in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire”.

At Edinburgh I applied for funds from the University to start my own archaeological project (separate to my PhD. Research), which developed into a 10 year study of the Later Prehistory of Cumbria. After my PhD. I had a post doc at the Crichton campus of the University of Glasgow in Dumfries. Being based in Dumfries with a young family once my post doc ended I decided to work part time in continuing/distance learning and archaeological consultancy, rather than commute long distances to work. Since moving to Worcester in 2008 and with my children having grown up I have expanded my ‘portfolio’ career in teaching and am currently piloting a HLF program into the environmental history of woodland in the Forest of Dean.

Dr Noël James

Working Title “Irrelevant Amateurs?  Professionals, Consumers and Volunteers in the Heritage Sector”

Noël is the current Director of the Historic Towns Forum. She comes from a research background, and has over 20 years’ experience working in the heritage sector. She has a particular interest in the built environment and is keen to promote partnership working across all areas of historic towns. Noël gained her Doctorate in Medieval Law from the University of York in 1999, and has published widely on Medieval Law, Landscape History, Social History and Historical Geography. In the past she has held posts at the Prince’s Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and in the Policy and Public Affairs Directorate at a Regional Development Agency. She is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, and has held posts as a Trustee for the Battlefields Trust, and as an expert panel member on the Revive & Thrive Challenge.

Dorota Kowalik-Kociszewska

Working Title “A Discovered part of the Hidden Heritage?”

Qualified Conservator of Works of Art,, MA at UMK Toruń, Poland; a 4-year PhD study in the Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of Wrocław, Poland at the Faculty of Mineralogy and Petrology;  owner of the DKKonserwacja,

Helen Campbell Pickford

Working Title “Irrelevant Amateurs?  Professionals, Consumers and Volunteers in the Heritage Sector”

Helen is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford.  She worked in education and community development for over twenty years, including ten years in developing countries.  She is involved in several research projects, all of which have the aim of informing policy making.  Her current work looks at the contribution of volunteers to mitigating the effects of the skills gap in the Historic Built Environment sector, at the role of volunteering in the historic environment for wellbeing, and developing a toolkit for people who want to work in their local communities.  Helen has also researched the role of theatres in community cohesion, and has published ‘In Battalions’, a report on the effects of budget cuts in the Arts and how to mitigate their effects.  Much of Helen’s research challenges current methods of measuring impact in interventions in the arts, communities and historic environment.

Alison McCandlish

Working Title “Hidden Heritage- Unseen, Unknown, Undervalued, Untold”

A PhD student in cultural planning at UWS, with a background in town planning (BA Hons), heritage conservation (MSc), Education (TQFE) and creative media (MA), having worked in various Local Authorities in North East England and the West of Scotland and as a Teaching Fellow for Historic Scotland. She is a chartered town planner (MRTPI), Full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and member of the Associaion of Illustrators (AoI). Her academic research interests centre around community engagement and heritage management through using digital and artistic methods.   She writes a twice-weekly newsblog for the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and runs an award winning freelance digital interpretation and illustration practice.

Kevin Morris 

Working Title “Hidden Heritage – Ignorance is Bliss”

Kevin is a Chartered Town Planner, a member of the Royal town Planning Institute and Institute of Historic Building Conservation.  He is a qualified planner, urban designer and building conservation specialist and has worked in local government for over 30 years in a variety of enabling, supportive, outcome, quality focussed roles within several local authorities including two large London boroughs.  Prior to his current position, his most recent role whist working for the London Borough of Bromley (London’s largest borough) was as Principal Conservation Officer and he was fortunate to be involved with an extremely wide variety of conservation related activities including works to a wealth of Arts and Crafts houses, humble vernacular cottages and industrial and commercial buildings.  Kevin secured the designation of the former RAF Biggin Hill as a conservation area and listing (and eventually) scheduling of numerous associated buildings following the MOD’s plans to close the station and secure redevelopment.  He was also involved in several significant regeneration projects including English Heritage’s (now Historic England) refurbishment and restoration of Down House, the former home of Charles Darwin and the restoration of Crystal Palace Park home to the Great Exhibition in the mid-19th Century following Paxton’s redesign and relocation from Hyde Park, not forgetting the statutory listed concrete dinosaurs.  Since moving to Dorset, Kevin has continued his conservation and urban design work although on a smaller scale as well as managing a multi-disciplinary team at North Dorset District Council as Environment, Community and Commissioned Services Manager.

Dave Parham

Dave  is an experienced archaeologist and diver / diving supervisor who has directed maritime archaeological projects that range in date from the Bronze Age to the Second World War and in scope from strategic studies to extensive field investigations. He has worked extensively throughout the British Isles as well as the Baltic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. His research interests focus on the archaeology of seafaring and ship construction of all periods but can extend into underwater cultural heritage management on occasions.

Alison James

Working Title “Unlocking Protected Shipwreck Sites”

has been a maritime archaeologist at Historic England for seven years with responsibility for the protected wreck sites. Previously she worked at Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology and the NAS.

Angela Middleton

Working Title “Unlocking Protected Shipwreck Sites”

holds a degree in archaeological conservation from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and an MSc in Maritime Conservation Science from the University of Portsmouth.

She has worked for the Newport Medieval Ship Project and the Michael Faraday Museum of the Royal Institution before joining Historic England as an Archaeological Conservator in 2007. Here she is responsible to advise on and undertake research and investigative conservation on material retrieved from land and marine sites. She has a special interest in the conservation of waterlogged organic materials

Dr Miles Russell

Working Title “FINDING NERO – using 3D laser scanning to identify Roman emperors”

A senior lecturer in prehistoric and Roman archaeology at Bournemouth University and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London). He has worked as a field officer and project manager for the UCL Field Archaeology Unit, the Oxford Archaeological Unit and Bournemouth Archaeology on sites across Southern England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Germany, Sicily and Russia. He is co-director of Bournemouth University’s Archaeological Field School and also the Durotriges Project and REGNVM, investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period in SW and SE Britain, the Imperial Image Database, investigating Roman portraiture and the Chalkland Prehistoric Project, examining the Neolithic monumental architecture of the South Downs, Southern England.

Miles is a regular contributor to television and radio, his most recent appearances being in Time Team, Timewatch, The Seven Ages of Britain, A History of Ancient Britain, Digging for Britain, Secrets from the Sky and Underground Britain.

He is the author of fourteen books, including The Piltdown Man Hoax:Case Closed, UnRoman Britain: Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia(with Stuart Laycock), Bloodline: the Celtic Kings of Roman Britain,Monuments of the British Neolithic: the Roots of Architecture and Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain and numerous other papers and journal articles.

Misha Begitte R. R. Pedersen, Denmark.Working Title “Geoparks as a way to engage the public and promote hidden heritage in Western Jutland”A Mature student at the Natural and Cultural Heritage Management programme at University College of Northern Denmark finishing her degree in 2016. with a  interest in the connection between human beings and landscape, with a focus on sense of place and heritage linked to geography.Misha is a project assistant in Geopark Vestjylland in Western Jutland, Denmark, where she works with strategy, fundraising and community involvement. Past experience includes volunteer management, consulting on user experience within the hospitality sector as well as many years of volunteering at heritage centres and local history archives.”Harriet Wennberg  “Revealing and Prioritising Heritage: an INTBAU Case Study from Aluva, India”.Harriet  joined INTBAU in 2010, and is now working as its Senior Manager. Her work has included the development of a strategy for the charity, involvement in multiple UK-based and international projects, the organisation of seminars and conferences, and the development and publication of new research. She previously worked at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. Harriet holds a first-class MA in Art History from the University of St Andrews, and is originally from Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada.

Mark Watson