Innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to documenting, preserving and presenting heritage for the future. The Heritage Hub brings together researchers and professionals from across the university to tackle key issues in heritage and heritage conservation locally, nationally and internationally.
We encourage traditional, creative and innovative methods and tools to protect and preserve tangible and intangible heritage. With communities at the heart of our research and innovation activities, the hub promotes cross- and interdisciplinary approaches to preserving both tangible and intangible heritage for communities, policy-makers and organisations.
Our interdisciplinary approaches are represented in six heritage-based areas:. We can:. This theme focuses on landscape change and preserving our ecological heritage. At Fishbourne we aim to build an understanding of how landscapes and land use have evolved over the past 2, years, and how people relate to landscapes and perceive these changes.
With Cumberland House Natural History Museum, we are digitising and cataloguing botanical specimens within the Portsmouth Museums herbarium collection PMH , to make them available to the wider research community, citizen scientists and amateur naturalists.
The aspirations of this theme relate to the conservation and preservation of heritage assets and culture. They accord to circular economy, sustainability and low carbon optimisation for the productivity of culture and heritage assets and in capturing the value of these along with the economics of their uniqueness. The main focus of this theme is community outreach to help share and connect our heritage research with a wider audience.
