The Materials, Culture and Heritage (MCH) Research Programme has an established international reputation for research, policy engagement and community collaboration.

Nurturing the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies as a community of scholars, the MCH Research Programme provides an environment that is both critical and supportive for researchers across the field, from early career to senior scholars, and acts as a connection point between students, emeritus colleagues, alumni and wider publics.

In the present context of the climate crisis, issues of decoloniality, inequality and diversity, together with a broader imperative towards societal engagement, the MCH Research Programme provides a lens through which research at Aarhus University can make interventions within both academic and wider fields.

MCH organises a series of seminars and events, as well as supporting research directly through the Seed Funding scheme

• The seminar programme for the autumn semester 2023
• Seed funding

In the world’s Top 20 research institutions across the discipline, MCH is leading critical academic debates through theoretically nuanced and practically grounded research

Key research projects:

• CLIOARCH
• UrbNet
• The DIME metal detector project
• The ANTHEA project

Engaging with public bodies, museums and other institutions in Denmark, Scandinavia and more widely, MCH is making critical interventions within policy-making and application

• The MoMu collaboration
• Museum Skanderborg
• Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum

In partnership in diverse creative contexts, MCH is engaged in meaningful collaboration with a variety of publics

• Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS)
• Heritage Experience Initiative (HEI)
• Arternes Aarhus
• Medieval Archaeology Forum