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Our flourishing research and scholarship culture celebrates and enables original investigation; extending knowledge fields and developing new understanding within the arts.

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Heritage, Collections and Archives Research Group

This Research Group operates across three interconnected strands of activity. The first strand focuses on museology and archival practice, encompassing conservation, restoration, analysis, interpretation, and documentation. The second strand pursues the theoretical study of Heritage, Collections, and Archives to advance the discipline and enhance its societal impact. The third strand embraces creative practice as a meaningful way of engaging with heritage, collections and archival material.

The group takes a broad and inclusive view of what constitutes heritage and archival material, encompassing physical and intangible heritage, and visual and material culture. It fosters an interdisciplinary environment where scholarly rigour and creative experimentation are seen as complementary.

Heritage, collections and archives are understood not as passive entities but as active agents in making meaning, shaping cultural memory and identity, and holders of vital evidence to support our understanding of the past, present, and future thinking.

Membership

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Associate Professor Romana Turina Associate Professor – BA (Hons) Film Production

PhD, MA, PGCE, FHEA, SEDA

Email me rturina@aub.ac.uk
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Dr Erato Kartaki Research Fellow – Heritage Science

AFHEA, PhD, MSc, BSc

Email me ekartaki@aub.ac.uk
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Dr David Lund Senior Lecturer – BA (Hons) Modelmaking

PhD, BA (Hons), FHEA, FRHistS

Email me dlund@aub.ac.uk
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Dr Emma Shercliff Associate Professor of Textiles and Participatory Making, Associate Director of the Graduate School (Research), Course Tutor (MRes Arts)

PhD, BA(Hons), FHEA

Email me eshercliff@aub.ac.uk
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Dr Maike Helmers Senior Lecturer

PhD, Dipl Eur Hum, PG Cert, FHEA, FRSA

Email me mhelmers@aub.ac.uk

PhD candidates

  • Chloe Scrivener
  • Shannon Carr
  • Penny Tristram

Projects

  • Lund, D. (2027), The Postwar Architectural Model Boom: Architecture and the Miniature Transformed. London: Routledge (monograph).
  • Lund, D. (2025), The creation of The Thorp Archive Website, to make the digitised collection available to the public. Digitisation Grant by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
  • Turina, R. (2026), Objects of Creative Practice: Photography, Archives and the Autoethnographic Essay Film (English/Italian). Venice: Bucanevis Press.
  • Turina, R (2027), Essay Filmmaking and Silenced History: A diary in Autoethnography. London: Routledge (monograph).
  • Turina, R. (2024), Three Sisters in a Sketchbook (film).

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Times In Between 2026 – Folklore and Borderland: Tales of Order and Identity

An international conference and festival organised following the success of previous editions of the Times In Between.

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