NOTE: We have 6 final spaces available, please contact: James Davies - James.Davies@ahrc.ukri.org

Outputs from the day will be made available on the AHRC website soon after the event.

As part of the Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH) a free workshop on Re-use and continued use of historic buildings, urban centres and landscapes is to be held at the University of Leicester. We would like to invite you to join the discussion and provide valuable insights which will feed into the development of a long-term strategy for the JPICH.

The workshop will include presentations and discussion on the following research areas:

• Conservation and Planning
• Diversity and Communities
• Immersive, multi-sensory engagement and virtual reality
• Contested Heritage

Programme

9am – Registration/tea & coffee

9:30am – Welcome- Professor Roey Sweet, Director of Partnerships and Engagement, AHRC

9:45am – Keynote Speaker- Mari Solerod (Vice Chair of The Research Council of Norway & member of JPI Urban Europe's Governing Board) (25mins)

10:15am – Conservation and Planning (1hr, 20mins)

Intro from Chair- Professor Simon Gunn (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester)

Professor John Pendlebury (School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University)

Dr Rebecca Madgin (School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow)

Professor Peter Larkham (School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University)

Panel discussion Q&A (Chair)

11:35am - Break

11:40– Diversity and Communities (1hr, 20mins)

Intro from Chair- Colin Stirling, UCL

Professor Carenza Lewis (School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln)

Dr David Wyatt (School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University) and Dave Horton (Action in Caerau and Ely- ACE)

Mr Graham Jeffery (School of Media, Culture and Society, University of West Scotland)

Panel discussion Q&A (Chair)

1pm – Lunch

2:00pm – Contested Heritage (1hr, 20mins)

Intro from Chair- TBC

Professor Keith Lilley (School of Natural and Built Environment, Queens University Belfast)

Sandra Stancliffe (Head of Education & Inclusion, Historic England)

Estelle Gittins (Assistant Librarian within the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library of Trinity College Dublin)

Panel discussion Q&A (Chair)

3:20pm – Tea/Coffee break (10mins)

3:40pm – Immersive, Multi-Sensory engagement and Virtual Reality (1hr, 20mins)

Intro from chair- Professor Mohamed Abdelmonem (School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University)

Professor Dawn Hadley (Department of Archaeology, University of York)

Associate Professor Nick Higgett (School of Design, De Montfort University)

Dr Richard Brook (Manchester School of Architecture)

Panel discussion Q&A (Chair)

5pm – Summary Session Chairs/Professor Roey Sweet (30mins)

5:30pm - END

This is a free workshop and lunch is also provided. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements.