Doctoral training at
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Welsh Culture and Heritage CDP4 Consortium

This summer we launched our new Welsh Culture and Heritage CDP4 Consortium with the National Botanic Garden of Wales and National Library of Wales.

Our partnership’s 10 sites house a diverse collection of books, manuscripts, sound, film, artwork, natural history specimens, and archaeological artefacts dating back over 2,500 years. They include a 400-acre heritage landscape, museum gallery space, working industrial museums, traditional craftsmanship, historic buildings dating as far back as the iron age, a legal deposit library, over 2000 cubic metres of archives, and a national collections centre.

As a consortium, we have four priority research areas:

1. Everyone is represented: How can we tell new stories, re-interpret collections to tell stories we know through new voices and engage new audiences?

2. Safeguarding biodiversity: How can we support evidence-based responses to the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis and conserve our ecosystems?

3. Digital access to collections: How can digital technology impact accessibility as well as the interpretation of collections and the types of stories told?

4. Conservation: How can the heritage sector manage conservation priorities and choices in new contexts of collection use, widening participation, and changing landscapes?

Find out more and apply for studentships starting in 2024 here: