Dr. Guilherme Pozzer

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, "Memories and Well-being in Post-Industrial Communities" 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 "Cultural Heritage, Community Participation, Public Policies" project, fostering technical-scientific collaboration between Brazil and Germany. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University 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 "Crafting the Past: ": Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making". He also contributes to the "Railway Memory Project" and he is an affiliate to the DePOT project in which he is a member of the curatorial committee for the "Histories of Deindustrialization Through Objects". 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.