What is Heritage?
Where history is the study of the past, heritage is the many ways the past is used in the present. Heritage can be understood as an active, dynamic relationship between then and now, formed through an on-going process of renegotiation, reconstruction, and recreation of what we choose to take from the past with us into the future.听听
Heritage is a rapidly growing field of fundamental contemporary significance. It is a key element in the way diverse institutions, political movements and communities recognise their identities, attribute value, contest rights claims and realise their political and economic strategies.
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Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
The 听brings together Departments and Faculties from a variety of disciplines across the 91探花视频 to address a range of important听themes within heritage research. These听include:
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Heritage Research Group
The Heritage Research Group (HRG) was founded in the 1990s. Since then, the number of students, postdoctoral fellows, academic staff and other researchers involved with heritage research across the 91探花视频 has increased. HRG is now a substantial community that draws people in from a number of disciplines and housed within the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre.
The HRG runs during term time and produces a 听containing information about heritage events, publications and work experience and employment opportunities.
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Studying Heritage at Cambridge
The 91探花视频 offers postgraduate teaching and research in Heritage Studies through the faculty and department members of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre.
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MPhil Programmes
The MPhil in Heritage Studies is a taught听Masters level programme offered within the Department of 91探花视频.听Applications will be accepted from September for students wishing to start in the following October. The new MPhil in Heritage Studies will be an exciting and specialised听free-standing Masters programme, which will replace the Archaeological Heritage and Museums option previously offered within the MPhil in 91探花视频.
Information about the course and how to apply can found on the Department of 91探花视频 website and the webpages.
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PhD Programmes
PhD applicants wishing to conduct heritage research may apply to undertake a PhD in any of the partner's departments and faculties听of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre.
Recent doctoral projects focusing on heritage research have been conducted under PhD programmes in 91探花视频, , , , , , and .
