Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy (CEHP)

Description

The Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy (CEHP) promotes and supports world-leading interdisciplinary research on environment, heritage and policy across the University of Stirling and beyond. The Centre aims to make a difference by developing sustainable approaches to the challenges and opportunities surrounding environment and heritage in a world of accelerating change and increasing pressure on natural and cultural resources. Members embrace a range of expertise and disciplinary backgrounds including Architecture, Archaeology, Ecology, Heritage Studies, History, International Relations, Law, Environmental Sciences, Management, Museology, Philosophy, Politics, Social Anthropology and Sociology

Environment and heritage are central to our identity and wellbeing in the face of accelerating change and associated intersecting crises. Members of the Centre aim to make a difference by undertaking mission-oriented research on environment and heritage – and the threats, challenges and opportunities they face. In doing so, we undertake cutting-edge projects that create sustainable solutions to ‘real-world’ problems addressing multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals. A significant proportion of our research is characterised by attention to the conflicts and pressures surrounding natural and cultural resources and the ways in which new policies and practices can address issues of inequality and social justice. In doing so we are also attentive to how ideas about environment and heritage are created and contested. Integrating research in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, we work with communities, practitioners and policymakers to create more resilient futures through collaborative practices.

Our aims:

• To facilitate world-leading, mission-focused interdisciplinary research and funding bids across the University and with external partners.
• To promote and support excellence in Centre-related teaching through a portfolio of degree programmes linked to the Centre.
• To use the Centre’s extensive links with industry partners and policymakers to facilitate knowledge transfer and generate research impact.
• To increase research capacity by supporting the recruitment of doctoral students and early career researchers.
• To develop an integrated strategy to promote Stirling’s expertise and world-leading research in environment and heritage.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1999

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University of Stirling
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