Hello, we’ve got some exciting plans at UCS to develop heritage as a new subject area within the university. UCS is small enough to be able to do things a little differently, having been created by UEA and Essex just five years ago as a new university to establish a permanent higher education institution within Suffolk. David Gill was appointed just over a year ago as Professor of Archaeological Heritage and head of the Humanities Division in the School of Arts & Humanities, and I was appointed just over a month ago to head up a division within the School of Business, Leadership & Enterprise, which I haven’t quite sorted the name out of.. It has focused to date on tourism, events and hospitality, but given the wonderful waterfront location of the campus, and the team’s ambitions for the subject area (to date led by the tourism degree suite leader, Anita Beresford-Webb), I am subtly morphing the name into a division of tourism and heritage. Anyway, over the past month David and I have been hatching plans based on our academic and professional activities to work strategically together to build a strong teaching and research base in heritage management and heritage studies which complements the existing UCS provision in the two schools (faculties) in history, English, tourism and management. Much activity has gone on already, with Anita developing a foundation degree and Bachelor of Arts in Management of the Heritage Sector, many of our tourism and events students undertaking professional work-based learning in heritage sector organisations, and David being involved in a variety of public engagement projects, such as the Managing a Masterpiece landscape partnership.
We’re going to use this blog to chart our progress as we create new links and develop new ideas within the university and with the wider heritage community at a local, regional, national and international level, and we hope that it will provide an opportunity to engage with us along the way.
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