Using the past to create a better future

Heritage Innovation's mission is to break down barriers between cultural heritage expertise and modern communities. We explore and develop new ways of helping people engage with their cultural heritage. We use the past in the present to create social and environmental benefits for future generations.

Heritage Innovation draws on wide networks of expertise to create the best team to deliver high quality and ethical outcomes for our clients.  We work closely with a range of partners.

Paul is the founder and CEO of Heritage Innovation. He has a rich experience of working internationally across a wide spectrum of heritage organisations, delivering a diverse range of cultural heritage projects and services. 

Expertise

• Cultural heritage management, conservation, archaeology and museums
• Governance, leadership and business development for heritage organisations
• Public engagement and heritage interpretation
• Specialist knowledge of urban archaeology and industrial heritage
• Leadership of large multi-disciplinary teams and complex projects

Experience

• Several years' leadership in for-profit consultancies, delivering international cultural heritage projects and public interpretation programmes
• More than ten years as CEO of a UK not-for-profit cultural heritage organisation providing services to public and private sector clients
• Over ten years leading a profitable commercial heritage/archaeology team within one of the UK’s leading independent museums
• A decade managing archaeological collections and monuments in a World Heritage Site, leading multi-agency heritage-led conservation and research projects
• More than twenty years' experience as non-executive director for a diverse range of heritage organisations and visitor attractions — and wide-ranging service on public and professional committees
• Extensive university teaching and mentoring experience, including delivering international collaborative research projects
• Author of seven books and over 70 peer-reviewed academic and professional publications

Paul is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) and a full Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA). He holds a PhD from the University of York, and a BSc and MA from the University of Sheffield.

More information about Paul can be found on LinkedIn and his personal website.