Research and Standards

Director of Research and Standards

Dr Edward Impey - T: 01793 414700

The Group is responsible for developing and promoting a better understanding of the historic environment and how it should be conserved. This is achieved through publications, technical guidance, the presentation and interpretation of our historic properties, training programmes, and making our archives and collections accessible. It also manages the conservation and maintenance of English Heritage’s historic properties, collections, datasets and archives. Its expertise informs both English Heritage and the heritage sector as a whole.

Conservation

The Conservation Department is responsible for promoting standards and providing specialist guidance on all aspects of the repair and maintenance of historic assets. Its expertise includes structural engineering, gardens and landscapes, architecture, quantity surveying and building conservation research. Its research ranges from studying the thermal performance of historic buildings to the processes and treatment of decay. The department also manages the maintenance and conservation programme at English Heritage’s historic properties.

• Director of Conservation, Bill Martin - T: 01793 414700
• Programmes and Special Projects Manager
• Head of Conservation Engineering, Tery Girdler
• Head of Building Services, Engineering and Safety
• Head fo Building Economics, Richard Whittaker
• Head of Building Conservation and Research, Chris Wood
• Head of Conservation Architecture, Vacancy
• Head of Gardens and Landscapes, John Watkins
• Director of Administrative Estates Department, Barry Hall - T: 0207 973 3000

The National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage, managing and conserving over 10 million items including photographs, documents, plans and reports relating to the historic environment of England.  These are made available to English Heritage and public and professional users through on on-site viewing, remote services and increasingly on line (1.5 million to date, with 992,000 unique visitors in 2007-8). The NMR also supports a number of business functions of English Heritage, including our Geographic Information System and corporate records management, and has a major role in developing standards and guidance for historic environment record keeping by other bodies.

• Director of National Monuments Record, Nigel Clubb - T: 01793 414700
• Corporates Records Manager, Sophie Houlton
• Head of Heritage Data - Gill Grayson
• Head of Archives - Mike Evans
• Head of NMR Services, Anna Eavis

Properties Presentation

The Properties Presentation Department is responsible for displaying and explaining our properties and collections to the public. Through using the best available information and new research, it aims to identify the most interesting aspects of a site’s fabric, its past, or its collections, and to explain these to visitors in an imaginative, informative and engaging way. It also has responsibility for the conservation and public accessibility of our collections - ranging from archaeological artefacts to Rembrandts- and the new English Heritage Guidebook series.

• Acting Properties Presentation Director, Amber Xavier-Rowe - T: 0207 973 3000
• Head of Collections Conservation, Amber Xavier-Rowe
• Head of Interpretation, Emma Carver
• Head of Properties Research, David Robinson
• Head Curator (Collections), Martin Allfrey
• Head Properties Curator, Jeremy Ashbee

Publishing

The Publishing Team works to make the results of English Heritage’s research and expertise available to the general public, historic environment professionals and organisations through accessible, useful, authoritative and attractive publications, available through the book trade and our own shops, website and catalogue. The Team also publish other people’s work, often in partnership, where this clearly promotes the aims and of English Heritage. It produces volumes in traditional print form, by print on demand, and is moving rapidly into electronic publishing.

• Head of Publishing, John Hudson T: 01793 414700

Research

Research Department is responsible for developing the fundamental understanding essential to English Heritage’s success in prioritising, managing and advising on the conservation of England’s buildings, archaeology, townscapes and landscapes. It delivers evidence for policy, action and advice through frontline research into the historic environment and the issues that affect its condition and survival.  It also provides expert guidance and works with partners across the historic environment sector to set and improve standards, increase capacity, and pioneer new approaches to research and conservation issues.

• Research Director, Chris Scull - T: 0207 973 3000
• Head of Archelological Science and Archaelogical Archives, Andrew David
• Head of Archaeoloical Projects, Brian Kerr
• Head of Aerial Survey and Investigation, Pete Horne
• Head of Imaging Graphics and Survery, Bernard Thomason
• Head of Archaelogical Survey and Investigation, Pete Topping
• General Editor, Survey of London, Andrew Saint
• Chief Buildings Historian (Architectural Investigation), John Cattell

Strategy

The department develops and co-ordinates strategies for English Heritage’s research and standard-setting activities.  It works with partners to ensure that these respond to, and anticipate, the strategic needs of English Heritage, the historic environment sector, and the historic environment itself.  It also manages the Historic Environment Enabling Programme, which provides guidance and financial support to over 300 conservation, research and access-related programmes carried out by other organisations each year.

• Director of Strategy, Adrian Olivier - T: 0207 973 3000
• Head of Characterisation, Graham Fairclough
• Head of Historic Enviornment Commissions, barney Sloane
• Head of Prehistory Research, Jonathon Last
• Head of Urban Research Policy, Colum Giles
• Head of Local Aurthority Liasion, Dave Batchelor
• Head of Places of Worship Research, Vacancy
• Chief Scientist, Sebastian Payne
• Head of Training and Standards, Bob Hook
• Head of Roman Research, Pete Wilson
• National Heritage Science Strategy coordinator, Jim Williams
• Head of Industrial Research, Keith Falconer
• Head of Maritime Archaeology, Ian Oxley