Dr. Guilherme Pozzer

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Honorary Research Fellow

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Dr. Guilherme Pozzer
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
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Dr Guilherme Pozzer is a historian specialising in Industrial Heritage, with an international academic background spanning Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and the UK. His research explores the symbolic meanings, social impacts, and role of material culture in memory and heritage-making processes at abandoned, ruined, and re-used industrial sites. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the European Research Executive Agency-funded Post-Doctoral MSCA Fellowship at RUB, "" which explores connections between industrial heritage, memory-making practices, and well-being in deindustrialisation contexts. Concurrently. He serves as Co-Investigator on the Fapesp (Brazil) - funded "" project, fostering technical-scientific collaboration between Brazil and Germany. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield, where he was a Teaching Associate in the Department of Archaeology, coordinating modules on Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Mapping for the Humanities, and leading the Knowledge Exchange project "". He also contributes to the "" and he is an in which he is a member of the curatorial committee for the . He has expertise in qualitative research methodologies, particularly in analysing historical data from an Industrial Archaeology perspective combined with Social Semiotics and the hermeneutic framework. Currently, he explores community and arts-based approaches to address challenges in preserving post-industrial heritage and memories. 

Qualifications
  • PhD in History (European Doctorate Label, specialised in Heritage) - º£½ÇÉçÇø of Minho, Portugal (2014-2022).
    • Thesis:
  • MPhil in History - State º£½ÇÉçÇø of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (2004-2007).
    • Dissertation:
  • BA + Licenciatura and Teaching Degree in History - State º£½ÇÉçÇø of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (1999-2003).
Research interests

Urban History, Memory, Cultural Heritage, Industrial Archaeology, Deindustrialisation, Community Engagement, Public Policy, Digital Cultural Heritage. 

  • Relationship between industrial heritage sites, practices of memory-making and well-being in contexts of deindustrialisation
  • Community-based and arts-based research methods
  • Critical heritage theory and the politics and policies of cultural heritage
  • Deindustrialisation and the politics of industrial closure and of industrial heritage
  • Industrial Archaeology, Material culture of industry (uses, symbolic meanings, and urban and social impacts)
  • Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Mapping
  • Urban History, and Social History.