Creative & DigitalThe Orkney and Shetland dialect corpus project scoping study
Principal Investigator: Dr Ragnhild Ljosland (University of the Highlands and Islands)
2012
This scoping study prepares for research on Orkney and Shetland dialect grammar, shedding light on the grammar of two dialects which are the products of a language contact situation (15th – 19th century). The study aims to develop a database (corpus) of naturally occurring dialect texts from Orkney and Shetland, which would be digitally searchable. Read more
Digital building heritage
Principal Investigator: Dr Douglas Cawthorne, De Montfort University
From 2014 to 2015
The DBH project is firstly intended to demonstrate digital technologies, techniques and expertise developed and/or used at De Montfort University to local and national heritage groups throughout the UK who are concerned with buildings and their artifacts. It is secondly intended to assist community heritage groups in making collaborative bids with De Montfort University for UK Heritage Lottery Fund grants. Read more
Community web2.0: creative control through hacking
Principal Investigator: Dr Chris Speed (Edinburgh College of Art)
From 2010 to 2011
Community Hacking and its follow-on Ladders to the Cloud, are both part of a project that explores whether concepts emerging in relation to the Internet could usefully be applied to understandings of off-line contemporary relations and practices. Read more
Preserving Place: A Cultural Mapping Exercise
Principal Investigator: Dr Karen Smyth, University of East Anglia
From 2014 to 2015
The project evaluates processes involved in community choice, use and attitude towards place. What places are community groups interested in preserving? What places do they use to preserve their stories? This project is interested in the narratives behind these choices. Read more
Maker-centric: building place-based, co-making communities
Principal Investigator: Fiona Hackney; F.Hackney@wlv.ac.uk
From 2016 to 2018
Maker-Centric is one of a series of participatory arts research projects across the UK that are funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Connected Communities programme. The project takes a material placed-based approach to engaging communities in speculative co-design. Read more
Mapping cinema experience as living knowledge across Italy’s generational divide
Principal Investigator: Daniela Treveri Gennari
From 2017 to 2018
This project will create innovative engagement and impact activities with different generations of Italian audiences, building on resources and activities created by the AHRC-funded “Lost Italian Cinema Audiences” project (ICA), 2013-2016. Read more
Historicising and reconnecting rural community: Black presences and the legacies of slavery and colonialism in rural Britain, c.1600-1939
Principal Investigator: Dr Susanne Seymour, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
From 2012 to 2013
The project entitled ‘Historicising and reconnecting rural community: Black presences and the legacies of slavery and colonialism in rural Britain, c.1600-1939’ involved both scoping and outreach activities. It ran from February 2012 to October 2013. Dr Lowri Jones worked with Susanne Seymour on the project. Read more
Know Your Bristol On The Move
Principal Investigator: Professor Robert Bickers
2012
‘Know Your Bristol on the Move’ is a collaborative project between the University of Bristol, Bristol City Council and eight Bristol community groups. We conceive of ‘Bristol communities’ broadly as groupings of Bristol residents that come together around a place, interest, political claim or shared life experience. Read more
Crowd-sourcing Scoping Study
Principal Investigator: Dr Mark Hedges
2012
This project sought to establish a credible definition for, and the current state of the art of, crowd-sourcing in the humanities. Read more
Localism and connected neighbourhood planning
Principal Investigator: Phil Jones (University of Birmingham)
2012
The Localism Act, 2011 gives communities the power to set up a Neighbourhood Forum and produce a Neighbourhood Plan for development in their area. Those Forums have relatively little resource to undertake these complex planning exercises. Read more
