Hana Morel is research associate at University College London and leads the AHRC-funded Heritage Priority Area research, ’Opening Pathways across Heritage Research, Policy and Practice’, on the need to engage with government policy on regional, national and international levels and support the contribution which heritage research can make to public policy and heritage-related policy.

Michael Dawson is archaeologist and heritage consultant, Director of Heritage at RPS. Author of several books including the recent Heritage Under Pressure (2019). His research interests lie in the application of conservation policy and he is editor of the journal Historic Environment Policy and Practice and a panel lecturer at Oxford University Dept of Continuing Education.