Course director: Dr Laurajane Smith
The MA in Cultural Heritage Management is a course designed to offer flexible learning for graduates from a variety of disciplines. It offers a wide range of opportunities for those who wish to extend and deepen their understanding and research experience within heritage management and heritage studies more generally.
This course has been developed to meet the demand for intellectual preparation and training for the management of cultural heritage both within and outside of the UK. The course is designed to provide a bridge between academic studies of heritage and/or archaeology and the application of these through professional management. Within the UK there is a wide variety of professional roles for which schemes of introductory study are urgently needed. Examples include museum and heritage centre curators, regeneration officers, National Park or National Trust advisers, heritage managers/archaeologists within local authorities, and corresponding positions abroad.
The MA is structured around two core modules that concentrate on identifying and discussing the philosophical, political, legal and policy underpinnings and consequences of heritage management (CHM 1) and the communication of heritage issues to a diversity of audiences (CHM 2). Students then choose from a wide range of optional modules that reflect the research interests of the staff within the Department, and which may be drawn from other masters programmes from both within and outside of the Department such as Buildings Archaeology, Field Archaeology, or Historic Landscape Studies, or Social Research (Sociology). The teaching is conducted in small groups, seminars and tutorials, giving each student the opportunity to develop within a supportive and friendly environment.
The department believes that successful learning is dependent as much on individual study as on formal teaching. We therefore ensure sufficient time for reading and research is available to students throughout the MA programme.
Teaching on the MA is augment by lectures and seminars from external heritage professionals and practitioners. Staff with an interest in heritage and heritage related issues, and who are available to supervise heritage related dissertations, include:
- Dr Laurajane Smith
- Dr Kevin Walsh
- Professor Mark Edmonds
- Dr Jonathan Finch
- Dr Kate Giles
- Dr Harold Mytum
- Professor Julian Richards, Head of Department.
- Steve Roskams
Last updated by LS; June 2007