Heritage Research published Special Issue on ‘Engaging with Policy in the UK’

As part of the AHRC Heritage Priority Area, a one day conference on ‘Engaging with Policy in the UK: Responding to Changes in Planning, Heritage and the Arts’  was held in collaboration with Rescue in London in October 2018. The Conference provided the opportunity to draw together academics, civil servants, private and professional bodies, and civil society organisations to address challenges and uncertainty from changing policies.  The aim was to connect researchers, practitioners and policy makers involved in the arts, culture, heritage and the natural/historic environment around key areas of shared concern.

The aims of the Conference were to discuss:

• The challenges and opportunities resulting from changes in policy which impact the culture, arts and heritage sectors
• The role which organisations and civil society can have in shaping policy and decision-making, and/or influencing government
• Views on opportunities that can be taken to inform policy

The full video of the day can be watched here.

As a summary of some of the discussions raised during the Conference, Hana Morel has edited a Special Issue with Historic Environment: Policy and Practice editor Mike Dawson.

 

Links to articles in the contents list are below:

• Engaging with Policy in England – Agency, Interpretation and Implementation

Hana Morel & Michael Dawson

• Power of Place – Heritage Policy at the Start of the New Millennium

Clark

• Principles into Policy: Assessing the Impact of Conservation Principles in Local Planning Policy

Gill Chitty & Claire Smith

• The Disconnect between Heritage Law and Policy: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?

Nigel Hewitson

• Heritage Assets: Decision Making in the Real World

Peter Goatley & Nina Pindham

• It’s Not Mitigation! Policy and Practice in Development-Led Archaeology in England

Roger Thomas

• Archeology, Conservation and Enhancement: The Role of Viability in the UK Planning System

Dan Phillips

• For Everyone?: Finding a Clearer Role for Heritage in Public Policy-making

Georgina Holmes-Skelton

• Always on the Receiving End? Reflections on Archaeology, Museums and Policy

Gail Boyle

• Historic Environment Policy: The View from a Planning Department

Chris Patrick

• The Heritage-creation Process and Attempts to Protect Buildings of the Recent Past: The Case of Birmingham Central Library

Matt Belcher, Michael Short & Mark Tewdwr-Jones

• Pathways to Engagement: The Natural and Historic Environment in England

Hana Morel & Victoria Bankes Price

Book Review

• Who Owns England? How We Lost Our Green & Pleasant Land & How To Take It Back by Guy Shrubsole, William Collins, 2019

Matt Thompson