The AHRC-funded Heritage Futures Research Programme, with which Heritage Alliance have been collaborating, is now into its third of four years. The Research Programme is distinctive in its comparative approach which aims to bring heritage conservation practices of various forms into closer dialogue with the management of other material and virtual legacies such as nuclear waste management. It is also distinctive in its exploration of different forms of heritage as distinctive future-making practices. Further information about the research programme is available on their website at www.heritage-futures.org.