Creative & DigitalFields of Green: Addressing Sustainability and Climate Change through Music Festival Communities
Principal Investigator: Matt Brennan (University of Edinburgh)
From 2015 to 2016
Fields of Green is an AHRC funded research project exploring the sustainability of Scotland’s music festivals through the eyes of artists, audiences and festival organisers. In his opening remarks at the September 2014 United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated unequivocally: “climate change is the defining issue of our time. Read more
Beyond the Campus: Connecting Knowledge and Creative Practice Communities Across Higher Education and the Creative Economy
Principal Investigator: Dr Roberta Comunian, King’s College London
From 2012 to 2015
The network aimed to create a platform for discussion between academics, practitioners, artists, cultural organisations, business development managers and other university directors, about knowledge connections and collaboration between universities and the creative and cultural sector. Read more
Online Orchestra
Principal Investigator: Michael Rofe
We’re asking how we can use the internet to give children and amateur musicians who live in remote communities around the country the same opportunities to play in an orchestra as those who live in larger towns and cities. We’re designing an online orchestra that will allow people who live hundreds of miles apart to make music together for the first time. Read more
Creative Citizens
Principal Investigator: Ian Hargreaves
From 2011 to 2015
Media, Community and the Creative Citizens explores the many different ways in which social media and other, older media forms help citizens to generate value for their communities. We take case studies from three areas of creative citizenship – community journalism; community-led planning and design; and creative networks. Read more
(R)agency?: The Creative Practises of Anger
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Limon
From 2015 to 2016
(r)agency? The Creative Practices of Anger is a multi-disciplinary network, drawing together a team of early-career researchers, working in a number of different fields – both creative and critical – and a series of research activities and case studies that together form a research project on what the role and potentialities of anger might be in communities. Read more
Lost Spaces
Principal Investigator: Dr Dai O’Brien (York St John University)
From 2015 to 2016
This project aims to explore the consequences of lost community spaces for the Deaf community in Bristol. Recently, the Deaf community have lost the Centre for the Deaf, which was the centre of the community for many years, and the Centre for Deaf Studies in the University of Bristol, which was the birthplace of Dr Paddy Ladd’s Deafhood theory and Read more
Telling the Bees
Principal Investigator: Deborah Maxwell
From 2015 to 2016
Beekeeping is currently experiencing a surge of popularity, coinciding with a rise of localism and a consumer drive for homemade produce. Bees have also become popular subjects of non-fiction prose, literature, poetry and art, in part because their plight has become emblematic of contemporary environmental crises. Whilst a new generation of beekeepers is emerging, the methods by which they learn their skills is changing. Read more
The Impact of Festivals Project
Principal Investigator: George McKay; george.mckay@uea.ac.uk
From 2015 to 2016
The Impact of Festivals is a 12-month project funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme, working with research partner organisation the EFG London Jazz Festival. The Principal Investigator is Professor George McKay, AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Connected Communities Programme, and Professor of Media Studies at the UEA. The Research Associate is Dr Emma Webster, co-founder and co-Director of Live Music Exchange. Read more
Performing Living Knowledge: Developing a replicable model for arts-based empowerment of marginalised urban communities in Uganda and Malawi
Principal Investigator: Jane Plastow
This project builds on the arts and social science activities pioneered by the Uganda strand of the AHRC funded INTERSECTION project, under the Care for the Future programme. The project worked over 20 months with 60+ volunteer members of a working class community in Walukuba, Jinja, in eastern Uganda. Read more
Participatory Arts and DIY Culture Project
Principal Investigator: Prof George McKay, UEA
From 2017 to 2018
Participatory Arts and DIY Culture is a 12-month project funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme. Read more
