Hilary Orange is the Programme Director for heritage studies at Swansea University and co-Director of the University’s heritage research group CHART. Her research focuses on the ways in which industrial heritage and historical knowledge are produced by grassroots and community groups and, secondly,  on the memorialization of rock and pop music. She is part of the transnational research consortium – DePOT (Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time) led by Concordia University -, has an academic background in public and contemporary archaeologies and a professional background of work in the commercial and museum sectors.