Recommendation: Professor Flavio de Lemos Carsalade – School of Architecture, UFMG
Period: September 25th to October 6th, 2018
Professor Sam Turner is currently Head of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University/UK and Director of the McCord Centre for Historic and Cultural Landscape. He is an experienced manager of research teams with a track record of successful international projects. Some of the international projects Professor Turner has been involved in include: (1) Apalirou Environs Project, Naxos, Greece (2014-18), a collaborative fieldwork project with the Universities of Oslo, Edinburgh, Cyprus and the Greek Ministry of Culture; (2) Cultural heritage through Time, a collaboration with partners in Italy, Spain and Poland (funded by JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change, 2015-17); (3) Canvis i continuitats (with Lleida University, Spain; sponsorship: MINECO, 2013-15); (4) CoHERE (2016-18), European Commission Horizon 2020, a collaborative project on the meaning of cultural heritage for European entities (led by Professor Chris Whitehead of Newcastle University); and (5) CHeriScape – Cultural Heritage in Landscape (2014-2016), a collaborative project led by Newcastle University to investigate and promote landscape as cultural heritage, with seven partners from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain (funded through the European JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change, with a UK contribution from the AHRC). Together with other members of the McCord Centre, Professor Turner has led field projects on historic seascapes, most recently Historic Seascape Characterisations of the Irish Sea and North Sea (for English Heritage) and the Tyne and Wear HLC (for Newcastle City Council and English Heritage).