AHRC-funded Heritage Skills Programme

Dear All,

Please find below details on an AHRC-funded Heritage Skills Programme.  We would be grateful if you could please draw this to the attention of your members and any postgraduate research students.

Thank you.

Kate

Kate Spiller

Project Co-ordinator

AHRC Connected Communities Project /

Key Heritage Skills Programme

Research Institute for Arts and Humanities

Swansea University

Singleton Park

Swansea

SA2 8PP

www.swanseavalleyhistory.com

http://www.swan.ac.uk/riah/

Tel: (01792) 606587

Email: k.spiller@swansea.ac.uk

Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Graduate Centre for Arts and Humanities 

AHRC-Funded Heritage Skills Seminars and Master classes 

Heritage-themed seminars for postgraduate and early career researchers to be hosted by The Graduate Centre for Arts and Humanities, Swansea University.

The programme will include master classes and key note addresses by leading practitioners from internationally-renowned heritage sites; sessions will offer intensive training in specialist skills currently in demand by the heritage sector.

A number of travel bursaries are available.

For further information please visit the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) website http://www.swan.ac.uk/riah or to book a place at the seminars and master classes listed below please contact Kate Spiller, Project Co-ordinator (k.spiller@swansea.ac.uk).

Semester 1

The South Asasif Conservation Project: A Case-study in Conserving Past and Present Heritage

Wednesday October 17th 2012, 2pm – 3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House 

Dr Elena Pischikova, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt and American University in Cairo 

Preventative Conservation at the Egypt Centre

Monday October 29th 2012, 2pm -4pm, The Egypt Centre (first floor entrance)

Wendy Goodridge,Assistant Curator, Egypt Centre, Swansea University 

Funding for Activity-Based Heritage Projects

Thursday November 15th 2012 2pm – 3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House

Kim Collis, County Archivist, West Glamorgan Archives Service 

Reconstructing Heritage

Tuesday November 27th 2012 1pm - 2pm, Room B02, James Callaghan Building

Dr Kasia Szpakowska, Director of Leverhulme-funded Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: Second Millennium BC 

Building Heritage Communications

Thursday December 6th 2012, 2pm -3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House

Dr Tehmina Goskar, Honorary Research Associate (RIAH), Swansea University

Semester 2

Gathering and Using Oral Histories

Thursday January 31st 2013, 2pm – 3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House

Sian Williams, Librarian, South Wales Miners Library 

History, Heritage and Regeneration: Issues and Opportunities

Thursday February 14th 2013, 2pm – 3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House

Prof Huw Bowen, History and Classics, Cu@Swansea 

Themes and Trends in the Heritage Sector

Thursday February 28th 2013, 2pm – 3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House

Steph Mastoris, Director, The National Waterfront Museum 

Careers in the Heritage Sector

Thursday 2nd May 2013, 2pm – 3pm, SURF Room, 1st floor, Fulton House

Rebecca Vaughan, Careers Advisor, Swansea University

Sefydliad Ymchwil y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaetha

Canolfan Graddedigion y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau

AHRC-a ariannir Seminarau Sgiliau Treftadaeth a Dosbarthiadau Meistr

Seminarau treftadaeth i fyfyrwyr ôl-raddedig ac ymchwilwyr gyrfa gynnar i’w cynnal gan Ganolfan Graddedigion y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau, Prifysgol Abertawe.

Bydd y rhaglen yn cynnwys dosbarthiadau meistr a phrif sgyrsiau gan ymarferwyr blaenllaw o safleoedd treftadaeth o fri rhyngwladol; bydd y sesiynau'n cynnwys hyfforddiant dwys mewn sgiliau arbenigol y mae galw amdanynt yn y sector treftadaeth ar hyn o bryd.

Mae nifer o fwrsariaethau teithio ar gael.

Am ragor o wybodaeth ewch i wefan Sefydliad Ymchwil y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau (RIAH) http://www.swan.ac.uk/riah neu I archebu lle ar y seminarau a’r dosbarthiadau meistr isod, cysylltwch â Kate Spiller, Cydlynydd y Prosiect (k.spiller@abertawe.ac.uk).

Semester 1

The South Asasif Conservation Project: A Case-study in Conserving Past and Present Heritage

 Dydd Mercher Hydref 17eg 2012, 2pm – 3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Dr Elena Pischikova, Prif Gyngor Hynafiaethau, yr Aifft a’r Brifysgol Americanaidd yn Cairo

Preventative Conservation at the Egypt Centre

 Dydd Llun Hydref 29ain 2012, 2pm -4pm, y Ganolfan Eifftaidd (mynediad llawr cyntaf) 

 Wendy Goodridge,Curadur Cynorthwyol, y Ganolfan Eifftaidd, Prifysgol Abertawe

Funding for Activity-Based Heritage Projects

 Dydd Iau Tachwedd 15fed 2012 2pm – 3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Kim Collis, Archifydd y Sir, Archifau Gorllewin Morgannwg

Reconstructing Heritage

 Mawrth 27 Tachwedd 2013, 1pm - 2pm, Ystafell B02, Adeilad Keir Hardie

 Dr Kasia Szpakowska, Cyfarwyddwr Prosiect Demonoleg yr Hen Aifft a ariennir gan Leverhulme- Ail Fileniwm CC

Building Heritage Communications

 Dydd Iau Rhagfyr 6ed 2012, 2pm -3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Dr Tehmina Goskar, Cysylltiol Ymchwil Anrhydeddus (RIAH), Prifysgol Abertawe

Semester 2

 Cydlynydd

Gathering and Using Oral Histories

 Dydd Iau Ionawr 31ain 2013, 2pm – 3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Sian Williams, Llyfrgellydd, Llyfrgell Glowyr De Cymru

History, Heritage and Regeneration: Issues and Opportunities

 Dydd Iau Chwefror 14eg 2013, 2pm – 3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Yr Athro Huw Bowen , Hanes a’r Clasuron, Cu@Abertawe

Themes and Trends in the Heritage Sector

 Dydd Iau Chwefror 28ain 2013, 2pm – 3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Steph Mastoris, Cyfarwyddwr, Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau

Careers in the Heritage Sector

 Dydd Iau 2il Mai 2013, 2pm – 3pm, Ystafell SURF, Llawr 1af, Tŷ Fulton

 Rebecca Vaughan, Gynghorydd Gyrfaoedd, Prifysgol Abertawe