heritage management

Welcome to Marion Blockley - Heritage Management

Marion Blockley is an Archaeologist, Interpretive Planner and Heritage Consultant with more than 30 years experience, who has advised on local, national and international heritage strategies. She has a particular interest in community consultation and capacity development, and has been involved in training for more than 25 years, from life-long learning groups and primary schools up to postgraduate and in-service professionals throughout the UK and internationally. She can provide a full interpretive planning and implementation service from site audits, concept development, interpretive theme development, and media selection to delivery through creative partnerships with landscape architects, designers, illustrators and community artists.

Experience

Expert adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund

Director of the Ironbridge Institute and Senior Lecturer in Heritage Management for
the University of Birmingham 1992 – 2000 Link

Founder member (1985) and former council member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists

Former member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites ICOMOS (UK)
World Heritage Sites Committee and Cultural Tourism Committee Link

Joint editor of the English Heritage/Routledge book Heritage Interpretation (2005) Link

Past editor of the magazine Interpretation for the Association of Heritage Interpretation Link

Services we Offer

Conservation Management Plans

Archaeological Desk Based Assessments

Historical Research

Site and Area Management Plans

Interpretive planning and implementation

Audience Development Plans and Access Plans

Feasibility Studies

Copywriting, design, print production and design project management

Community Consultation and Capacity Development

Project Management and bid preparation

Education and Training Plans