Cultural Heritage: Health, Wellbeing and Social Impact

I seek to explore opportunities for Swansea University’s Centre for Heritage Research and Training (CHART) to enhance consortia responding to current cultural heritage calls. Affiliated with Swansea’s multi-disciplinary Research Institute for Cultures and Communities, and the university’s Local Challenges Research Office, CHART (https://chart.swansea.ac.uk/) has particular research strengths in working with communities, municipal authorities, schools and policymakers to tell the story of Wales’s industrial past, and shape its post-industrial future through heritage-led regeneration projects. This work has a strong emphasis on cultural participation and access, preserving intangible (or ‘living’) heritage, societal wellbeing, community empowerment, inclusion and sustainable development. Our work is shaped by Welsh Government’s unique Wellbeing of Future Generations legislation and its new Priorities for Culture strategy, which prioritises the positive effects of cultural experiences (including heritage) on health and wellbeing. I welcome opportunities to connect with consortia developing projects with a focus on heritage, wellbeing and social inclusion (including migrant communities, deaf and disabled people and linguistic minorities), heritage-led regeneration in post-industrial communities, or heritage-led approaches to climate change, environment and sustainability.