The Construction of Built Heritage
A north European perspective on policies, practices and outcomes
Edited by
ANGELA PHELPS
Nottingham Trent University, UK
G.J. ASHWORTH
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
BENGT O.H. JOHANSSON
University of Gteborg, Sweden
First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing
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G.J. Ashworth was educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Reading and London and has taught at the Universities of Wales, Portsmouth and since 1979 Groningen, The Netherlands. He was appointed Professor of Heritage Management and Urban Tourism in the Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Science, in 1993. Research and publications have focused upon heritage planning and management, cultural tourism, place marketing and city centre management.
Lars Bergstrm whose academic background is in the conservation of built environments, has worked as the Director of Forsviks Industrial Heritage since 1993. His work includes organising and managing courses in industrial heritage, as well as activities for the increasing number of tourists who are visiting the museum. He works closely with Gteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology. His publications are mainly on the conservation and heritage of built environment.
Graham Black combines his career as a consultant Heritage Interpreter with academic work as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Studies at the Nottingham Trent University. His university research supports his consultancy, particularly on the use of interpretative principles to engage and involve a wider audience both in museum exhibitions and within the historic built environment. He has had a specific interest in Nottinghams Lace Market since 1978. He has published a range of articles, book chapters and book sections relating to these issues and is currently writing a book on Quality and Museum Presentation.
Stuart Burch is a full-time lecturer in the Department of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University where he is currently writing-up a doctoral thesis on the history of Parliament Square. He has degrees in the History of Art from Leicester University and Sculpture Studies from Leeds University. He has studied at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki in Finland and at the Swedish Institute Stockholm University. His interests include fine art, sculpture and public monuments.
Inger Ernstsson, whose academic background is in Archaeology, Art History and Cultural Studies, has been working with cultural heritage management during the last twenty years in different positions. From 1995-2000 as a curator of Gunnebo House and Gardens, and as a developer of the cultural heritage project Gunnebo back to eighteenth century. Her publications include reviews and articles on garden history.
Sue Griffiths, whose academic background is in Literature and Cultural Studies, teaches courses in Literature and contributes to the Accreditation Programme at the Open University. She has also taught at the Nottingham Trent University. Her publications include reviews and articles on literature and education. Bom and brought up on Merseyside, she introduced her friend, Pat McLemon to Liverpool and its museums. She has revised and edited Pats early draft of her chapter here, to enable its inclusion in the book.
Ingrid Holmberg, whose academic background is in the conservation of built environments, holds a Doctoral Fellowship and is member of staff at the Institute of Conservation, Gteborg University where she has taught courses since 1992. Her main interest, and subject for ongoing PhD thesis, is in the uses of the past within conservation. She currently runs a research project regarding twentieth century Swedish farmhouses and has several publications inter alia concerning the history of gardens and parks.
Bengt O.H. Johansson served in many senior positions in Swedish heritage management and was until recently special advisor to the Swedish Minister of Culture in the formulation of the Governments policies for architecture and design and for heritage management. He is the author of several books and articles on architecture and heritage (in English: Tallum, Gunnar Asplunds and Sigurd Lewerentz Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, 1996). Johansson is presently adjoint professor in Conservation at Gteborg University and is engaged in heritage rescue work abroad as president of the Swedish Foundation for Cultural Heritage without Borders.
M.J. Kuipers finished her study, Urban and Regional Planning, with a specialization Heritage, Culture and Tourism, at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences of the University of Groningen in October 1999. She continued as a doctoral student at the same Faculty, under the supervision of Professor G.J. Ashworth. Her PhD research is about Living in the past: the residential function in the conserved built environment.
Michael Landzelius is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University. His research focuses upon the politics of space, bodies and spatial practices, in the continued re-formation of modernity. He received his Ph.D. in Conservation of Built Environments from Gteborg University and was, during his post-graduate studies, a visiting doctoral researcher at the Geography Departments of Syracuse University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Pat McLernon whose academic background was in Cultural Studies and Art History, was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Studies at the Nottingham Trent University until her untimely death in December 2000. Her main research interest was in constructions and sites of public memory in relation to the two World Wars. At the time of her death she was one of the team engaged in researching and cataloguing memorials in Nottinghamshire as part of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Associations national project to document and record all free-standing memorials in the country.
