Civil Society & Social InnovationExploring personal communities: A review of volunteering processes
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen, Keele University
2012
Exploring Personal Communities: A Review of Volunteering Processes investigates the idea that personal communities contribute to the public good by offering ways to transcend commonplace dualisms such as public/private and individual/collective. Read more
Múin Béarla do na Leanbháin (Teach the Children English): Migration as a Prism for Viewing Ethnolinguistic Vitality in Northern Ireland
Principal Investigator: Professor Karen P. Corrigan
From 2014 to 2015
Research on language in Northern Ireland (NI) focuses on the varieties spoken by the major ethnicities. Their linguistic heritageshave been hotly disputed and scholarship reflects the socio-political conflict of ‘The Troubles’. The Peace Process has ensured greater protection for Irish and Ulster Scots and has also made NI more attractive, resulting in unprecedented immigration. Read more
Productive Margins regulating for Engagement
Principal Investigator: Professor Morag McDermont
From 2013 to 2018
Community engagement needs radical re-design. All too often decision-making is top-down and decision makers do not adequately engage, deeming ‘community engagement’ a passive exercise. Communities are often only invited to comment on decisions which have already been made, leaving isolated and excluded communities feeling even more powerless, and adding to dislocation between politicians and the electorate. Read more
Stories of change: Exploring energy and community in the past, present and future
Principal Investigator: Dr Joe Smith
From 2014 to 2016
The Stories of Change project aims to help to revive stalled public and political conversations about energy by looking in a fresh way at its past, present and future. The project draws on history, literature, social and policy research and the arts to encourage a more imaginative approach to current and future energy choices. Read more
Towards hydrocitizenship. Connecting communities with and through responses to interdependent, multiple water issues
Principal Investigator: Owain Jones Bath Spa University
From 2014
This 3 year project will investigate, and make creative contributions to, the ways in which citizens and communities live with each other and their environment in relation to water in a range of UK neighbourhoods. Read more
Creative communities in art & design since the 1960s: lessons for socio-economic regeneration in a globalized world
Principal Investigator: Professor Jonathan Harris (University of Southampton)
From 2012 to 2018
A seven year doctoral research programme bringing together Winchester School of Art and Tate Liverpool. Four PhD students are examining the creative art and design communities associated with and generated by pop culture in Britain and its many legacies since the 1960s. Read more
Co-Curate North East
Principal Investigator: Eric Cross, Newcastle University
From 2013 to 2015
Co-Curate NE responds to demand from schools and community groups within the North East to access and enhance knowledge from a broad range of museum collections and archives. Schools and community groups are often unable to access physical collections and archives because of distance or because demand for physical visits outstrips the capacity of the museum/archive. Read more
The Ethno-ornithology World Archive – EWA
Principal Investigator: Dr Andrew G. Gosler, University Research Lecturer in Ornithology & Conservation, Oxford University
From 2013 to 2015
Birds inspire people, their cultures, and their faiths, whilst also acting as important environmental indicators. Many people possess knowledge of birds that is rooted in a cultural, rather than in a scientific, context. This knowledge is largely undocumented, but is no less valid than scientific knowledge. Read more
Transmitting musical heritage
Principal Investigator: Dr Kate Pahl (University of Sheffield)
From 2013 to 2014
Music is a cultural product of society, a sonic reflection of ideologies and behaviours – a performative heritage. When musical sound is transferred from player-to-player, or player-to-audience, we question what of this cultural meta-data travels with it, and how. Read more
Writing our history: Digging our past
Principal Investigator: Professor Elizabeth Harvey (University of Nottingham)
2012
Uncovering relics from the past or charting the heritage of a local community can be a painstaking and frustrating process for the amateur historian or archaeologist, often hampered by limited time and funding. Read more
