Cultural Heritage Management Royal Agricultural University

Overview

Buildings are a direct link to the past – to the people who built them, to the people that lived in them, and to economies and societies that produced them.

Cultural Heritage is all around us. It is at the centre of current political debates around identity, how we feel about our past, and who we as a country want to be on the international stage. To be part of shaping the UK’s cultural heritage landscape is a rewarding and challenging career, requiring a wide and varied range of skills and knowledge.

As the Cultural Heritage Management course from Royal Agricultural University progresses, learners will be able to follow their developing interests and tailor the direction of their assessed learning to pursue a variety of professional heritage careers. This MSc provides a more flexible pathway into cultural heritage, ideal for learners who have a particular specialism or area of interest they would like to build upon, or those who wish to gain a broad range of experiences across the sector.

The RAU has been at the forefront of land-based education for more than 180 years, and to study cultural heritage here is a natural choice. The programme is taught in the historic Cultural Heritage Institute, the RAU’s Swindon campus set in the ‘heritage capital of England’, home to the National Trust, English Heritage and Historic England. It provides unparalleled opportunities to work with key heritage agencies and to gain management insights.

Career:

Optional modules will allow you to tailor your MSc to a specialist area (for example, standing buildings consultancy or archaeology) within the wider sector. On completion of the course our students will be able to work in built environment management, planning, heritage property management, regeneration projects, grant-awarding bodies, heritage organisations such as Historic England, English Heritage and the National Trust, museums or heritage site interpretation, private heritage consultancies, heritage outreach and education, or as self-employed heritage consultants. It also provides an excellent grounding for further academic study, for example at PhD level.