The UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies is an inter-faculty research centre led by the IoA and supported by the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies in partnership with the University of Gothenburg. CCHS has become one of the best known and most successful cross-institutional international heritage centres. A key element of the CCHS researchers’ ability to address the University of Gothenburg’s Challenges agenda has been the development of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Capitalising on the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research culture, has added tremendous academic value as it has allowed CCHS researchers to address societal challenges. These challenges include: 1) decolonising the city and revealing post-colonial hidden heritage narratives, 2) consumption and the future of the planet, 3) place-making, dislocation, and wellbeing in refugee camps, 4) the use of heritage in holistic-participatory wellbeing interventions, 5) genetics, disease and migration, and 6) a heritage approach to climate change and toxicity in built environments as well as food security.