We are delighted to have been awarded UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council Impact Starter Funding for a new project (Re)Forming Spaces to Places: Heritage Ecosystem Mapping of an Urban Setting, London Borough of Havering
This project is the next step on from our 2025 project Heritage Ecosystem Impact Assessment - a tool which seeks to put the concept of ‘heritage ecosystems’ into practice by capturing the deep relationships of people to places in rural communities. The 2025 pilot project suggested significant potential to adjust this methodology for urban contexts.
For this exciting new project we will work closely with CHRC alumni Alyssa Walton, London Borough of Havering’s Heritage Projects Officer, to develop a Heritage Ecosystem Mapping (HEM) approach in the borough.
Our hope is that developing a HEM toolkit in Havering will grow the impact of the research on which it is based and expand the CHRC’s activity into the realm of urban policy.
Find out more about the project here
