This roundtable convenes researchers supported by the Transnational Heritage Joint Research Grants Programme, drawing on their collaborative projects as a foundation for reflection and dialogue. While participants will present elsewhere in the programme, this curated session offers a distinct space that does not replicate individual papers, but instead draws out shared implications from project-based research. Through dialogue with the audience, the session fosters critically informed perspectives on heritage policy and practice, aimed at developing constructive suggestions for UNESCO frameworks. • David C. Harvey is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. • Ali Mozaffari is Senior Researcher (Seniorforsker) in Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University and Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. • Rishika Mukhopadhyay is Lecturer in Development Geography at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. • Shu-Mei Huang is Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. • Yujie Zhu is Associate Professor at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. • Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina is Professor in the Department of History and Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Cortland.