Research on community heritage

Abstract

This paper will examine recent experience in the UK of encouraging greater collaboration between university researchers and groups outside the academy around the practice of community heritage and archives. The paper will explore this theme within formally structured attempts at collaborative research and co-creation such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Connected Communities programme Research for Community Heritage. In particular the paper will refer to the work of the UCL team Dig Where We Stand / Continuing to Dig within that programme in order to assess the current state of practice in seeking to overcome the barriers to real and sustained collaboration between those in the academy and those located outside in the development of community heritage research.