Kate Clark PhD update

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The challenges of integrating heritage into wider public policy.Fail, fail again, fail better? The challenges of integrating heritage into wider public policy
Heritage practice is all around us. It is part of our everyday personal and shared lives, at the heart of arts and creativity, identity, attitudes to waste, in our working lives, social connections and above all storytelling.
Yet, over a long career in public policy, colleagues across economic, social, planning, environmental and even arts have dismissed cultural heritage as at best irrelevant, and at worst a source of harm. As a result, heritage is largely absent from key public policies where heritage practice could make a significant difference, such as arts, the circular economy or Net Zero.
In the early 1990s we tried to address this by embedding cultural heritage in sustainable development but largely failed. Now ‘Wellbeing’ is another opportunity that governments are using to embed more inclusive approaches to public
Date
Monday 21 July 2025 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (UTC+10)Location
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