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
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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.

June 8, 2022

Chemistry, Art and Heritage

CHART and the department of Chemistry at Swansea University explored the role that art and creative engagement can play in communicating complex chemical processes whilst exploring the significance of the rich industrial heritage of the Lower Swansea Valley.

February 1, 2022

Learning from the Past to Protect the Past: Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Conflict

Drawing on historical research, the destruction and protection of cultural heritage in past conflicts can provide important lessons for contemporary heritage protection in war zones.

Blog

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.