Managing Loss in the Historic Environment: Ecocultural Approaches

Dr Andy Brown

Guest Speaker

Dr Andy Brown is Analytics Director for Historic England. After an early career in archaeology he spent 30 years in the front-line of applied heritage conservation, working with owners and other stakeholders on finding sustainable solutions for heritage assets undergoing change. He now leads on growing the evidence base for heritage through research and analysis. His part in Historic England’s Climate Change Programme is to develop decision-making tools to help managers of heritage assets to plan for an uncertain future.

Caitlin DeSilvey

Course Director

Caitlin DeSilvey is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus. Her research into the cultural significance of material and ecological change has involved extensive collaboration with archaeologists, conservation architects, ecologists, heritage practitioners and others, and has informed new approaches in heritage practice, focused on accommodating process rather than securing preservation. Her monograph, Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving (UMP 2017), received the 2018 Historic Preservation Book Prize. From 2020-2022 she led the Landscape Futures and the Challenge of Change project in collaboration with the National Trust, Historic England and Natural England. Her advisory roles include membership of the National Trust Historic Environment Advisory Group and the Bord Ertach Kernow Change Working Group

Dr Ingrid Samuel

Guest Speaker

Dr Ingrid Samuel OBE is Placemaking and Heritage Director for the National Trust, and responsible for strategic leadership, policy and practice across the Trust’s heritage and landscape assets. She is also strategic lead for planning and development, including major infrastructure proposals impacting the organisation, and for the NT’s climate adaptation programme. In each of these areas Ingrid’s focus is on balancing conservation and care with an effective and appropriate approach to evolution and change. She leads nationally for research across this range of responsibilities. A former senior civil servant, Ingrid was Head of Heritage and Architecture at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport before the NT. She has a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge.