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Dr Kathryn Davies

Visiting Fellow

DPhil (Oxford); MA, BA (Manchester); Dip TP; FSA; MRTPI; IHBC

Kathryn is a heritage and planning consultant with over 35 years’ experience, principally in the public sector. She worked first in local authorities in planning and conservation and latterly with Historic England, where she worked both with buildings and areas and then ran the Historic Places team in the South East. Engaging communities in understanding the significance of the historic environment was a major focus of this work. Currently she works as a consultant to the public and private sectors for planning and historic environment issues, including buildings advice, conservation area work and neighbourhood planning. She has held a number of positions in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation, of which she was a founder member, and she is immediate past Vice-Chair. She also sits on a number of design review panels including the Oxford Design Review Panel

Her research interests centre on vernacular buildings, and in particular, secular wall paintings in the early modern period, focusing on their significance in everyday life. She has a number of publications, including the recently published Artisan Art: vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches and lectures on this and related topics.