Centre for Heritage Research and Training

Welcome to CHART

CHART (the Centre for Heritage Research and Training) is a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership, based in the School of Culture and Communication at Swansea University. Through research, training and engagement activities we work to support students, scholars and a wide variety of public and voluntary sector organisations both globally and across Wales.

We define heritage as a set of practices that involve either the materials that form the historic environment or intangible expressions of culture. CHART highlights the importance of heritage for cultural identity and shows how heritage can become a focus for conflict and competing interests as well as regeneration, economic development, place-making and well-being.

Our collaborators
and partners

Designing the Green Transition: Gamifying the historic copperworks for better environmental outcomes/Dylunio Dyfodol Gwyrdd: Troi’r gwaith copr hanesyddol yn gêm i gyflawni canlyniadau amgylcheddol gwell

Researchers at Swansea University came together with game designer Kieran Pearson and pupils from Pentrehafod School to design a game that explored the development of the copper working industry in South Wales and the impacts it had on health and the environment Daeth ymchwilwyr ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe ynghyd â Kieran Pearson, dylunydd gemau, a disgyblion o Ysgol Pentrehafod i ddylunio gêm sy’n archwilio datblygiad y diwydiant gwaith copr yn ne Cymru a’i effeithiau ar iechyd a’r amgylchedd.

January 24, 2024

Copperopolis: Embedding local Swansea history into the new primary curriculum through digital literacy

January 30, 2023

Small-Scale Fisheries, Local Seafood and the Future of Fishing Heritage in South Wales

The fishing heritage of South Wales will serve as the focal point for a project that integrates critical heritage research with a politically and ecologically conscious agenda for small-scale production and localised consumption.

Blog

An opinion piece on the use of urban heritage sites

September 7, 2023

Urban heritage sites are a bit of an oddity. They do not fit into the cast of characters such as castles and country houses no one lives in that you have to pay extortionate prices to get in.

Researching the History and Heritage of Wales’s Small-Scale Fishing Industry.

December 2, 2022

Wales has a long history of fishing. In South Wales this is clearer than anywhere else. Tenby was among the earliest and most noteworthy Welsh

A person standing in front of an exhibition inside a school

The Ysgol Bae Baglan Sustainability Project

September 14, 2022

In 2022, Rebecca Bangera undertook a SPIN internship program while pursuing my Masters in Childhood Studies at Swansea University. Through the university’s Paid Internship Network (SPIN) students are connected to employers across all sectors for four week graduate level internships.

Discovering Heritage through a Work Placement with CHART

May 3, 2022

As part of my MA in history degree at Swansea University, I was offered the amazing opportunity of a work placement with CHART.

Empowering Children to Take Ownership of their Own History Through Storytelling and Creative Heritage Practice

September 30, 2021

I have always had a fascination with history and storytelling. I was most fixated on the people of the past and their individual stories.