Below are links and references for a selection of publications, blog posts, presentations:
Journal article: Díaz de Liaño, G., Pastor Pérez, A., Robson, E., Watson, S., & Barreiro Martínez, D. (2024) Introduction: The Agency of Heritage Value(s). Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 26 (5–6), 359–367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2024.2516308. Summary of the major themes raised in a special issue of the journal co-edited by the authors. The full issue is available here.
Book: Robson, E. (2025) Assessing the Social Values of Heritage: Methods in Theory and Practice, Abingdon: Routledge. This title is part of the Routledge Studies in Heritage series. The book is initially being published as a hardback or an e-book. For further details see here or the publication page on the Routledge website: www.routledge.com/9781032805269.
Journal monograph: Jones, S., Bonacchi, C., Robson, E., Broccoli, E., Hiscock, A., Biondi, A., Nucciotti, M., Guttormsen, T.S., Fouseki, K., and Díaz-Andreu, M. (2024) Assessing the dynamic social values of the ‘deep city’: An integrated methodology combining online and offline approaches, Progress in Planning, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2024.100852. An output from the Deep Cities project grounded in three in-depth case studies of how values associated with historic transformation are involved in urban place-making (in Edinburgh, London, and Florence).
Journal article: Robson, E. (2023) Assessing the Social Values of Built Heritage: Participatory Methods as Ways of Knowing, Architecture 3(3): 428-445. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture3030023. Featuring the Cables Wynd House case study from my PhD research project.
Journal article: Fouseki, K., Hisari, L., Dong, X., Bonacchi, C., Robson, E., Broccoli, E., Guttormsen, T.S., Nucciotti, M., and Shieh, S. (2023) Unpacking the Dynamics of Urban Transformation in Heritage Places through ‘Critical System Dynamics’: The Case of Beresford Square, Woolwich. Land 12(11): 2040 (article number). DOI: 10.3390/land12112040. An output from the Deep Cities research project.
Journal article: Bonacchi, C., Jones, S., Broccoli, E., Hiscock, A. and Robson, E. (2023) Researching heritage values in social media environments: understanding variabilities and (in)visibilities, International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231919. An output from the Deep Cities research project.
Research Report: Madgin, R. and Robson, E. (2023) Developing a People-Centred, Place-Led Approach: The Value of the Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow. AHRC Place-Based Research Programme Phase One Report.
Blog post: Scotland–Norway Knowledge Exchange: The Social Values of Heritage – reflections on my Saltire Emerging Researcher Exchange to the University of Oslo, Norway (April – June 2022).
Blog post: Linking Theory and Practice: Archaeology and ‘deep cities’ at the Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, May 2022 (Oslo, Norway) – Ana Pastor Pérez (The University of Barcelona) and Elizabeth Robson (The University of Stirling). Developed for the Deep Cities programme.
Magazine article: ‘Exploring the Multiple Values Associated with the Historic Places’ p28-29 in the Nov/Dec 2021 (20th anniversary) issue of History Scotland. This article introduced my research and the Social Value Toolkit and featured the Kinneil House and Estate case study.
Blog post: Bringing social values into the prioritisation of heritage sites: a question of resilience? – Elizabeth Robson and Qian Gao (both University of Stirling). Developed as part of the Learning from Loss programme, which I participated in during my PhD. Learning from Loss explored transformation of the historic environment in the face of climate change and asking questions about significance, prioritisation, and the processes of change and loss. For more details, see here.
All the Case Study Reports related to the Wresting with Social Value PhD research and my Academic Thesis (currently embargoed, but available upon request for personal study) are accessible via the University of Stirling’s Online Research Repository: STORRE. Search for ‘Elizabeth Robson’.
All the blog posts related to my PhD research are also available here.
Flash presentation: The Social Values of Heritage
This ‘three-minute thesis’ style flash presentation, designed to explain my research to a general audience, was recorded in October 2022. It was shortlisted in the Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society category at the Saltire Scheme Final Awards.
Conference Presentation: Whose Heritage Counts? Understanding and evidencing the social value of the historic environment
This presentation was delivered in July 2021 as part of the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology. During the main presentation (c. 35 mins), I share my PhD project findings, with more detailed discussion of the Kinneil House and Estate case study, and introduce the then-recently launched toolkit for practitioners. The presentation is followed by a discussion with attendees.
Dr Elizabeth Robson 