HERITAGE CONNECTION - Scoping and Sounding the Field

This report documents the Heritage Connection: Scoping and Sounding the Field project, funded by the University of Derby’s Vice-Chancellor’s Partnership Award and carried out in collaboration with the National Trust. It explores the emerging concept of heritage connectedness – a person’s subjective sense of relationship with heritage – through a review of literature, roundtables and workshops with heritage professionals and a pilot study testing a heritage connection intervention. The overall aims were to advance theoretical and practical understanding of heritage connectedness, and develop an agenda for research, practice and policy