Shaping the Heritage Science Community: A Symposium of the Science and Heritage Programme Research Clusters

Monday 22nd June and Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Conference Aston, Aston University, Birmingham

An exciting two-day symposium featuring keynote speakers, contributions from the 13 Science and Heritage Programme research clusters, discussions and networking opportunities. An evening reception will be held at Soho House and there will also be the opportunity to visit the exhibition Matthew Boulton: Selling What all the World Desires at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Gas Hall.

Attendance including lunch, refreshments, reception and exhibition are free of charge, but participants must make their own arrangements for transport and accommodation.

AIMS
 To be a force for change for heritage science
 To come together to enrich each other by shaping a research community
 To explore ways of doing things differently to enable heritage science to flourish
 To bring together the research clusters to share their work

OBJECTIVES
 To explore how research will deliver public benefits and benefits to heritage
science and to generate a dialogue between the two
 To identify critical research questions that are interdisciplinary across the clusters
 To act together to link potential areas of research and to examine opportunities
for collaboration
 To demonstrate how the research clusters are encouraging interdisciplinary
collaboration

For more information and a programme please click here (53kb).

To register please download the registration form (130kb) and email it to the Programme Coordinator, Debbie.Williams@heritagescience.ac.uk