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Meet members of the Heritage Hub group
Professor Katrina Navickas is director of Heritage Hub.
She promotes local and regional history and heritage research and has expertise in community co-production and Lottery Heritage Fund grant applications.
Professor Owen Davies is Professor of Social History and runs the MA Folklore Programme. Prof Davies co-founded Heritage Hub in 2010.
Professor Jonathan Morris is Professor of History and runs Heritage for Business.
Dr Sue Davies is a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire’s Business School with a special interest in the management on non-profit organisations. Before joining the University in 2021 she worked in the heritage sector for several decades.
Andrew Green is Senior Research Fellow and runs the Oral History Team.
Professor Grace Lees-Maffei is Professor of Design History and Director of DHeritage, the Professional Doctorate in Heritage. She is co-editor with Prof Rebecca Houze (Northern Illinois University, USA) of Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging (Routledge).
Dr Steven Adams is Associate Dean Research in Creative Arts
Dr Samantha George is Associate Professor Research in English Literature.
Associate Professor Susan Parham runs the UH Urbanism Unit and is particularly interested in the placemaking aspects of heritage.
Howard Berry, Principal Lecturer and Head of Post-Production for the Film and Television degrees in the School of Creative Arts,
Dr Deirdre O'Neill is senior lecturer in film.
Dr Kaja Franck is a lecturer in English Literature and the Programme Leader for the MA: Literature & Culture. Her interests include the Gothic, fictional monsters and monstrous animals, and she is a co-founder of the research project Danse Macabre.'
Dr Rowland Hughes is Head of Humanities Research
Dr Andrew Maunder is Head of Department of Humanities
Dr James Harvey is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media
Dr Sharon Maxwell Magnus is Senior Lecturer in Media
Dr Laura Mee is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television
Dr Roger Levy is part of the Centre of Research in Professional and Work based learning
Dr Ceri Houlbrook is Senior Lecturer in History and Folklore
Dr Daniel Grey is Reader in History
Our research associates include:
Liz Currie - currently taking a PhD in History and research assistant for Heritage Hub and the Research Office
Dr Barbara Wood - associated research fellow and DHeritage graduate
Fabian Hiscock - Oral history team member and MA History graduate
We have a lively cohort of DHeritage students and graduates working in professional heritage across the UK and world. Read about the DHeritage cohort's work on the Director's blog: https://www.graceleesmaffei.org/home/tag/DHeritage
Our community, heritage and local authority partners include:
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS)
- Welwyn-Hatfield Museums service
- St Albans museums service
- St Albans Abbey archives
- Hertfordshire Cultural Education Partnership (HCep)
- Dacorum Heritage Foundation
- Dacorum Borough Council
- Stevenage museum and cultural forum
- Smallford railway heritage
- British Schools Museum Hitchin
- Three Rivers council
- Letchworth Garden City heritage foundation
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