Contact details
- Email toma.gerich@stir.ac.uk
About me
I am a postgraduate researcher looking at the built historic environment through the lens of critical heritage studies.
In October 2024, I started working on the SGSAH funded doctoral project in partnership with the National Trust for Scotland, titled:
Reframing building conservation: Examining relationships between materialities, communities and values.
The aim of the research is to study the impact of changing materials, aesthetics, and technologies introduced through the conservation of built heritage, contextualising them as a set of negotiated relationships between sites, practices and communities . Working with the NTS, we will compare a diverse set of conservation projects across their portfolio, using a mixed method approach that will combine visual recording, archival study and ethnography.
Before I started my PhD, I have completed an undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and an Erasmus Mundus Master programme in Architecture, Landscape, Archaeology (ALA), organised by a consortium of universities led by the Sapienza University of Rome. I worked as a professional archaeologist in Slovakia for two and half years - in a regional museum in Michalovce and the Archaeological Institute of Slovakia - across various excavation and research projects.