Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales are joining forces to boost collaboration across Higher Education and the Heritage sector in Wales.
A strategic partnership between the two organisations will see them working together across five areas: research and innovation; safeguarding and restoring the environment; digital cultures and adaptive technologies; skills, talent and lifelong learning; and ensuring wellbeing and inclusive representation through an appreciation of heritage.
Although there is a long history of both organisations teaming up to address research and civic and societal issues, this new partnership will ensure greater alignment of expertise, experience and resources.
Past successful collaborations have included work on the CAER Heritage project, hands-on bioscience-related projects across Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales's sites, and research such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded, "Refugee Wales - The Afterlife of Violence".
Future plans include the development of tailored courses for the next generation of heritage graduates, more bilateral staff secondments and more students and postdoctoral researchers undertaking projects, placements and internships.
The partnership will also see academics from both institutions exploring solutions to shared challenges, such as meeting Net Zero targets and creating new ways of reaching wider and under-represented audiences through digital technologies.
