Meet the Team

CHART is led by Directors Hilary Orange (Lecturer in Heritage) and Alex Langlands (Associate Professor in History and Heritage).

Meet the Team - Hilary Orange Senior Lecturer in Industrial Heritage.

Hilary Orange

Lecturer in Heritage
Meet the Team - Alex Langlands Senior Lecturer, History.

Alex Langlands

Associate Professor in History and Heritage

The Directors are supported by a Steering Group drawn from Swansea University’s academic, professional and student community.

Steering Group

Meet the Team - Annie Tubadji Senior Lecturer, Economics.

Annie Tubadji

Senior Lecturer in Economics
Meet the Team - Nika Balomenou Tourism Academic.

Nika Balomenou

Associate Professor in Tourism and Visual Sociology
Meet the Team - Harrison Rees

Harrison Rees

Assistant Technology Transfer Officer, AgorIP

Amina Abu-Shahba

Community Engagement Associate, Taliesin Arts Centre

Mai Musie

Impact Project Officer
Meet the Team - Alan Dix Director of Computational Foundry, Computer Science.

Alan Dix

Director of Computational Foundry, Computer Science

Katherine Watson

PGR Student Rep
Meet the Team - David Turner Professor of History.

David Turner

Professor of History

Brian Garrod

Professor in Marketing

Work Placements and Internships

CHART welcomes undergraduate and postgraduate students on work placements and works with external partners to offer internships in the heritage sector. Thanks to our wonderful work placement students:

Abigail Beach-Rockall (2024). 

Sam Tucker and Elis Lewis (2022).

History and Governance

CHART was founded by David Turner and Hilary Orange and was established in May 2021 as an initiative of the Department of History, Heritage and Classics (School of Culture and Communications). CHART reports to the School’s Research Committee.