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We are involved in a variety of short and multi-year projects across the globe and a selection of current and past projects is available here. These projects are the result of our investment in collaboration and partnership as well as our success in attracting grants for research, public heritage and regeneration. As an interdisciplinary centre and research facilitator, we support the varied heritage research and practice of university staff, postdoctoral fellows, and students, across time-periods and geographical location. Browse through a selection of past and current projects to find out more about our work in Wales and across the globe.

January 24, 2024

Designing the Green Transition: Gamifying the historic copperworks for better environmental outcomes

Researchers at Swansea University came together 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.

January 24, 2024

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

A FREE Key Stage 2 activity pack in the form of a digital resource which can be used in an exciting cross-curricular format, available in both English and Welsh.

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.

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.

January 19, 2022

Public Heritage and Community Regeneration

South Wales’s position as a major preserve of industrial heritage provided the insipiration for a project that is developing collaborative approaches to heritage-led regeneration.

January 19, 2022

PEDALS (Programme for Elevating Digital and Language Skills)

Targeted at start-ups, social enterprises, marginalised learners, and the voluntary sector, the PEDALS project is reaching those who often lack the financial resources to upskill.

January 6, 2022

The Social Worlds of Steel

The impact of the steel industry on place and people’s social lives in twentieth-century Wales is the focus of a project that is bringing industrial history and heritage to life.

December 1, 2021

Welsh Memorials to the Great War

As well as the ‘official’ war memorials to the fallen that can be seen in public places around the towns and villages of Wales, thousands of memorials were dedicated to First World War servicemen by private institutions – chapels, workplaces, schools and clubs.

October 1, 2021

Disability and Industrial Society

A major study of experiences of disability in Britain’s coalmining communities is answering the question, what happened to disabled people during the Industrial Revolution?

October 1, 2021

Jewish Small Communities Network

An oral history, archival research and community mapping project is using participatory methods to explore the heritage of small Jewish Communities in the UK.

January 9, 2021

The Global and Local Worlds of Welsh Copper

By 1851 Wales had become the world’s first industrial nation and the copper industry was at its heart. Copper was at the heart of important scientific innovations. The industrialisation of this product changed the fabric of communities and landscapes during, and since, the industry’s heyday. This is an intriguing story of how Welsh businesses led the global copper trade for almost two centuries.