Sophie Butler is an Australian cultural heritage specialist with over 25 years’ experience. Much of her expertise lies in the management of cultural heritage issues relating to development and conservation, understanding how these issues connect with communities, and helping clients assess and manage associated impacts and opportunities. In recent years her focus has shifted to the facilitation of community participation in heritage processes, recognising the important role cultural heritage plays in community well-being. Currently living in Singapore and having just completed an MA in Cultural Heritage Management from Johns Hopkins University, Sophie is now pivoting to pursue research interests and community capacity-building projects in Southeast Asia. She hopes to apply her substantial professional skills and experience to the field of academic inquiry with the view to developing practical evidence-based solutions to real-world threats and issues affecting communities and their cultural heritage.

Xiangrui Xiong, is an assistannt researcher from Southeast University and Polytechnic University of Catalonia. His research focuses on identity of heritage, regeneration of rural industrial heritage, and architecture and territory design. He has published lots of research articles related to this field, including a monograph. Yanhui Wang, Ph.D., is a nationally certified architect of China. He is a professor at the Research Institute of Architecture at the Southeast University. His research areas are public building design and relative theories, modern architecture heritage conservation and adaptive reuse, and rural heritage.

The author is pursuing a Master degree inVisual Arts at University Malaya, with thesis topic regarding the field of Heritage and collective memory. The author’s research interests engage critical heritage studies, cultural communication and community-based practices, with particular attention to cross-cultural contexts and contemporary approaches to heritage interpretation.

Murray Parker is a professional musician, specialising in percussion and timpani performance across many genres including film score, popular, orchestral and historically informed early music. As a heritage professional, his research explores sensory and multisensory experience of the built environment with a particular interest in how sound may communicate meaning in different settings and the processes by which generated sounds may transform over time. Dirk H. R. Spennemann researches and teaches Cultural Heritage Management and Environmental History and Historic Ecology with an emphasis on the Indo-Pacific Region. His current research foci are heritage theory, especially emerging technological heritage(s), the history and heritage of Punjabi immigrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; as well as the physical manifestation of human responses to the Indo-Pacific environment during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jen Bond is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, undertaking research within the spheres of human-wildlife conflict and agricultural development. Her work engages a range of methodologies to understand the links between humans and their environments with particular focus on conflict, social acceptability and behaviour change.