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Falmouth University and Historic England are excited to invite applications to this AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership for a PhD on 'The potential of participatory practice to positively engage both under-represented and established audiences in heritage'. The heritage sector has been actively seeking to widen who and what ‘counts’ as heritage and what in the historic environment is recognised as important, to ensure that heritage is inclusive of both established and under-represented audiences. But seeking to attract new audiences can risk alienating existing ones, and vice versa – and can unintentionally result in differently valued offers for each group, or have benefit for only as long as a particular project is running. The challenge for Historic England (HE) is therefore to understand how the historic environment can genuinely reflect and engage ‘everyone’: both at the project level but also at a broader, discursive and...