Project Management for Heritage
This page provides our advice on managing pure research and research and development (R&D) projects in the heritage sector.
If you want to apply for Historic England funding for your research or R&D, you will need to follow this advice.
This page includes:
- Our free guide to 'Management of Projects in the Historic Environment’ (MoRPHE)
- How to make your project ‘MoRPHE compliant’
- How to order a free self-help course on project management
The MoRPHE Project Managers' Guide
This detailed guide sets out our general approach to project management. We have developed it for use in both pure research and applied research and development (or ‘R&D’) projects.
It is based on good practice for project management in industries as varied as construction and information technology, so can be applied to most project types.
The key points are:
- Plan carefully and consult on your plans early
- Get a project started with a well-written proposal and project design. These will help obtain funding, and agreement with partners
- State who is doing what, and what will be produced
- Take a staged approach to running the project, so that progress can be checked and plans changed if needed
- Finish well, with all results published as agreed, the project archive completed, and lessons for future projects recorded and shared
MoRPHE compliant projects
If you're going to apply for funding for your research or R&D project, you will need to make your project ‘MoRPHE Compliant’.
This means:
- Using in all communications with us the terminology for project roles, project stages and project documents covered in the MoRPHE Project Managers' Guide and any relevant project planning notes
- Providing the key documents in the format set out in Appendix 2 of the Project Managers' Guide, with an accompanying document control grid and contact details
- Following the supplementary guidance for particular project types set out in the accompanying series of Project Planning Notes
- Following the specific guidance for funding applicants
For all other researchers and R&D teams, our project management advice is provided as a service to help join up approaches to managing projects across the heritage sector.
Guidance Team
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