Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow. He is Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures Research Programme; Director of the Heritage Futures Laboratory at UCL; and leads the Work Package on “Theorizing heritage futures in Europe: heritage scenarios” as part of the EC funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie action [MSCA] Doctoral Training Network CHEurope: Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, and was a founding executive committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of more than a dozen books and guest edited journal volumes and over 70 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. In addition to the AHRC his research has been funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the European Commission.

Hana Morel is a Post-doctoral Research Associate for the AHRC Heritage Priority Area, and is currently leading on the Follow on Funding, Opening New Pathways to Impact across Heritage Research, Policy and Practice. She was awarded her PhD from University College London in 2015, in which she explored the development of planning policy and archaeology in global cities and the impact this has on those involved with archaeology and heritage. Her previous roles include: working with policy in higher education as Global BU Researcher (Executive Office) for Bournemouth University’s Pro Vice Chancellor (Global Engagement); archaeologist, researcher and lead for community engagement at Izmit’s Nicomedia Project, Turkey; project manager of the NYC Heritage project at Landmark Preservation Commission, New York; researcher at the American Institute of Archaeology;  co-director at independent publisher Morel Books; and editor-in-chief of the journal Papers from the Institute of Archaeology.

Her research involves exploring the role of heritage critically in international development and its contribution towards addressing global challenges. She is also sits on various heritage and archaeology groups such as APPAG, TAF, RESCUE and RHAG.

Colin Sterling is an AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow at UCL Institute of Archaeology. His current research – funded as part of an RCUK/UKRI Innovation Fellowship – explores the potential for new approaches to immersive and experiential design to contribute to critical heritage thinking and practice. From 2017 to 2019 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the AHRC Heritage Priority Area project, leading on the ‘Nature, Culture and the Posthumanities’ theme. Prior to joining the team he was a Project Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Research Associate with the heritage consultancy Barker Langham. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (published by Routledge) and co-editor with Rodney Harrison of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (to be published by Open Humanities Press in 2020). He oversees the research network Archaeology/Heritage/Art and co-coordinates the MA module Cultural Memory. His research has been published in Future Anterior, Public Archaeology, the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology and the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Hannah Williams is part-time Executive Assistant to the AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow. She completed her PhD in medieval history at the University of Manchester, and has worked as Editorial Assistant to the Ecclesiastical History Society and as co-editor on research and publication projects in history based at the University of Oxford. Her recent roles include administration and events organization for the AHRC Heritage Futures Research Programme and for the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies.

Susan Sandford Smith is part-time Executive Assistant to the AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow, with main responsibility for organising the logistics of the ACHS Futures Conference taking place in London in August 2020. Her recent roles include being Personal Assistant to the Deputy Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and co-chair of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Athena SWAN self-assessment team. She is interested in food anthropology and hosts regular supper clubs in London, and was previously an Artist Manager and Promoter in the music industry.