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IHBC Recognised Courses

IHBC: Supporting conservation courses

The IHBC has enjoyed a long-standing partnership with conservation courses across the UK, encouraging training and professional development in built and historic environment conservation in line with established national and international practice standards, including those from ICOMOS and the World Bank.

As part of our charitable services supporting conservation practice, we offer an independent cost-free ‘recognition’ programme for conservation courses. This entails a desk-top assessment of course content, submitted to us by the course providers, against the conservation philosophy and practice areas used to accredit and regulate IHBC members.

Courses are listed below, and details of its operations are described HERE

The IHBC’s recognised course listing is a unique resource that both offers quality assurance in terms of course content and learning priorities, and serves as a support to help prospective students target their individual practice needs and priorities. The listing does not assess the operation of the courses listed or their delivery, as these matters change regularly and are best overseen by the host organisation.

IHBC Recognised Courses: The fastest route to IHBC conservation accreditation

The IHBC’s constitution acknowledges that built and historic environment graduate and post-graduate conservation courses (or equivalent) that are recognised by the institute for their relevance to practice can contribute significantly to the skills required of a Full Member of the institute. Consequently, graduates of such courses with just two years of relevant professional experience can apply to become a Full Member of the institute. This compares with the five years of relevant practice required of other applicants.

IHBC recognised courses also offer the substantial grounding in conservation practice that will help graduates secure the IHBC’s initial level of accreditation, Associate membership, which serves as the primary supported pathway to becoming a Full Member. Applications for Associate membership can be made at any stage in a career.

For more details on membership categories see HERE

IHBC course recognition: Full and Select

Those seeking conservation accreditation as IHBC members can use the IHBC’s course recognition service to identify those courses that align with the IHBC’s membership criteria.

Any courses seeking such recognition must have adequate and independent academic and other appropriate internal quality controls, usually provided by the educational body hosting the course. This means that the IHBC can then concentrate on its primary concern: course content.

Courses recognised by the IHBC have undergone desk-top assessments that ensure that their content – including also their structure and educational strategy – aligns with specific areas of practice relevant to conservation.

The IHBC offers two types of course recognition, Full and Select, each reflecting the extent to which course content reflects areas of conservation practice:

  • Full: where course content covers ALL the practice areas relevant to built and historic environment conservation practice
  • Select: where content covers SOME or PART of the practice areas relevant to built and historic environment conservation practice

Prospective students can use this recognition service as a resource to help target their own specialist practice needs.

IHBC conservation accreditation: Aligning individual needs with learning opportunities

Conservation courses reflect well the diversity of routes into the conservation profession (Link). Typically – though not always – a course reflects the practice priorities of a host department, section or institution. The IHBC welcomes this diversity of learning opportunities. However, where choices exist for students, this diversity can prove difficult to navigate for anyone planning their individual career path or learning strategy.

Prospective students that seek to benefit most from conservation courses, such as those seeking IHBC conservation accreditation, may elect to adopt the following approach:

  • Consider first those courses that best reflect the areas of conservation practice used in IHBC member assessments – the Areas of Competence and underpinning competences (see below) – that they themselves consider most in need of support and development

  • Such areas may be identified by:

  • carrying out a self-assessment of skills, knowledge and experience by drafting a Full Member application form to identify your weaker Areas of Competence in line with the guidance offered there and online http://www.ihbc.org.uk/join/Categories/index.html and http://www.ihbc.org.uk/join/page29/index.html
  • seeking advice, based on your experience to date, from IHBC members or through local volunteer Branches or
  • through making enquiries using the IHBC’s member support services, starting with support@ihbc.org.uk

  • Courses may be assessed for their relevance to individual practice needs and priorities by reviewing the online information offered by the course provider, and then in discussion with the relevant contact or course director there, ideally a member of the IHBC.

  • Consider the course structures that best suit their personal needs and circumstances

  • For example geographical location and access, time commitments and cost.

Career development: Using IHBC course recognition to build skills and CPD

To secure or progress IHBC conservation accreditation, practitioners skilled in a specific discipline or area of practice may usefully extend their core skills by using recognised courses – or parts of them, such as free-standing modules supporting Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - to help address identified needs in specific practice areas.

The process of identifying individual practice needs is described above.

Practitioners seeking relevant courses may refer initially to those courses with ‘select recognition’ in the practice areas that correspond to their own needs and priorities.

Practitioners should also refer to courses offering Full Recognition where those courses offer modules, CPD or stand-alone units in the practice areas that correspond to their own needs. Those educational structures can change frequently, and details should be explored by reviewing the online information offered by the course provider, and then in discussion with the relevant contact or course director there, ideally a member of the IHBC.

References

More guidance on the recognition process is provided here.

The lists of conservation courses recognised under the IHBC’s new procedure given below.

Guidance on the IHBC’s recognition of CPD is here

Conservation courses and other professional training resources are here.

Students interested in joining, and seeking concessionary membership rates, should look here.

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Conservation Courses recognised by the IHBC

Reference

Course

Institution/ Dept.

Contact

Competences Recognised

Recognition Year

Recognition level

IHBC 001

MA Architecture: Building and Heritage Conservation

University of Portsmouth

Dr. Tarek Teba tarek.teba@port.ac.uk

All

2005

Full

IHBC 002* * NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

Historic Environment Conservation; MA & PG Dip

University of Birmingham; Ironbridge Institute

Harriet Devlin

All

2005

Full

IHBC 002b

Conservation of the Historic Environment; MA & PG Dip

Birmingham City University- School of Architecture

Katriona Byrne katriona.byrne@bcu.ac.uk

All

2014

Full

IHBC 004* * NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

BA Hons Architectural Conservation

University of Derby, School of Arts Design and Technology, Kedleston Road Derby DE22 1GB

Roy Lewis

All

2006

Full

IHBC 006

MSc in Architectural Conservation

University of Edinburgh

Dr Miles Glendinning m.glendinning@ed.ac.uk

All

2006

Full

IHBC 007* * NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

Postgraduate Diploma/MA Architectural Conservation

Plymouth University, Faculty of Arts School of Architecture & Design; The Hoe Centre, Notte Street Plymouth PL1 2AR

Ian Brocklebank ian.brocklebank@plymouth.ac.uk

All

2007

Full

IHBC 008* * NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

MSc programme in European Urban Conservation

Town and Regional Planning, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee

Ralph Skea & Neil Grieves n.f.grieve@dundee.ac.uk

All

2007

Full

IHBC 009

MSc in Historic Conservation

Oxford Brookes University School of the Built Environment in association with University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education

David Garrard dgarrard@brookes.ac.uk

All

2008

Full

IHBC 010 * NB: Course no longer taking new students, but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

MSc Degree in Conservation of the Historic Environment

School of Real Estate and Planning at Reading University

Henry Russell h.j.g.russell@reading.ac.uk

All

2008

Full

IHBC 011* NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

MSc in Conservation of Buildings

Anglia Ruskin University, Department of the Built Environment, Chelmsford

Michael Coffey michael.coffey@anglia.ac.uk

All

2008

Full

IHBC 012

MSc Building Conservation & Adaption

University of Central Lancashire, Faculty of Science and Technology, School of Built and Natural Environment

Chris O'Flaherty CJO-flaherty@uclan.ac.uk

All

2008

Full

IHBC 013

MSc Conservation of Historic Buildings

University of Bath, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

Marion Harney M.Harney@bath.ac.uk

All

2009

Full

IHBC 014* * NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

Post-graduate Building Conservation

Architectural Association School of Architecture, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

Andrew Shepherd andshep@eldenminnsarchitects.co.uk

All

2010

Full

IHBC 015* * NB: Course no longer in operation but graduates still secure IHBC recognition in membership applications.

MA Conservation and Regeneration

School of Architecture, University of Sheffield

Jo Lintonbon J.Lintonbon@sheffield.ac.uk

All

2011

Full

IHBC 018

MSc Building Conservation

The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester

Lucy Hockley lucyhockley@wealddown.co.uk

All

2011

Full

IHBC 019

Certificate of Higher Education in Historic Building Conservation

University of Cambridge

Liz Morfoot Liz.Morfoot@ice.cam.ac.uk

Areas of Competence: Professional; Evaluation: Competence: Technology

2011

Select

IHBC 020* * NB: Recognition only applies where accompanied by relevant degree-level education.

Foundation Degree in Historic Building Conservation FdSc

Kingston University London

Steve Houchin S.houchin@kingston.ac.uk

All

2012

Full

IHBC 021

MSc in Historic Building Conservation

Kingston University, London

Amanda Lewis amandalewis@kingston.ac.uk

All

2012

Full

IHBC 022

MSc in Sustainable Building Conservation

Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Cardiff

Oriel Prizeman, PrizemanO@cardiff.ac.uk

All

2013

Full

IHBC 023

MSc Building Conservation (Technology and Management)

School of the Built Environment Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Dr Alan M. Forster a.m.forster@hw.ac.uk

All

2013

Full

IHBC 024

MSc in Architectural Design for the Conservation of Built Heritage

Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde

Cristina Gonzalez-Longo
c.gonzalez-longo@strath.ac.uk

All

2014

Full

IHBC 025

M.Sc. in Architectural Conservation

Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent

Dr. Nikolaos Karydis N.Karydis@kent.ac.uk

All

2014

Full

IHBC 026

MA Conservation Studies (Historic Buildings)

Department of Archaeology, University of York

Louise Cooke louise.cooke@york.ac.uk

All

2014

Full

IHBC 027

MSc in Building History

University of Cambridge Faculty of Architecture & History of Art

Dr Adam Menuge FSA IHBC, Course Director, MSc in Building History Adam.Menuge@aha.cam.ac.uk

Philosophy, Practice, History, Research, Recording and Analysis

2016

Select

IHBC 028

MA Urban Conservation

Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester LE1 7RH

Dr James Moore, Director of Studies, Centre of Urban History jm68@le.ac.ukk

All, exclusive to the module combination: HS7251 City in History; HS 7075, How Buildings Work; HS7081 Conservation, Heritage and the Urban Environment; S7252 Conservation in Practice; HS7250 Dissertation.

2016

Full

IHBC 030

MSc Sustainable Heritage

University College London (UCL)

Dr Kalliopi Fouseki kalliopi.fouseki@ucl.ac.uk

All

2019

Full

IHBC 033

Sustainable Heritage Management

University of Liverpool

Dr Ataa Alsalloum: A.Alsalloum2@liverpool.ac.uk

All

2021

Full

IHBC 034

Master of Science in Technical Building Conservation

Historic Environment Scotland/University of Stirling

Gordon R Urquhart | Postgraduate Course Manager gordon.urquhart@hes.scot

All

2021

Full

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