Creative & DigitalCommunity? What do you mean? An investigation into how differing understandings of the term ‘community’ shapes care leavers’ move to independence
Principal Investigator: Dr Sarah Goldingay; University of Exeter
2012
We explored the ways in which a performance-led approach to community formation and personal development can inform care-leavers’ move to independence. Using a case study approach, working with two groups of participants: young people leaving care and their support workers in Devon County Council’s Children in Care team (DCCCCS). Read more
Community music: history and current practice, its constructions of ‘community’, digital turns and future soundings
Principal Investigator: Prof George McKay (University of Salford)
2011
The UK has been a pivotal national player within the development of community music practice. In the UK community music developed broadly from the 1960s and had a significant burgeoning period in the 1980s. Community music nationally and internationally has gone on to build a set of practices, a repertoire, an infrastructure of organisations, qualifications and career paths. Read more
Creative communities, 1750-1830
Principal Investigator: Dr David Higgins (University of Leeds)
From 2013 to 2014
Focusing on historical case studies, this research network will examine how connections between members of a community, and between different communities, can enhance creativity. At the same time, it will subject those key terms to rigorous investigation. Read more
Crowd- and Community-Fuelled Archaeological Research
Principal Investigator: Andrew Bevan
From 2013 to 2014
This project develops a web platform called MicroPasts where full-time academic researchers, volunteer archaeological and historical societies and other interested members of the public can collaborate together. It is a place where enthusiasts of any background can not only create high-quality research data together about our human history, but also collaboratively design and fund entirely new research projects. Read more
Know Your Place
Principal Investigator: Professor Robert Bickers (University of Bristol)
2012
The University of Bristol, in partnership with Bristol City Council and a number of community groups, hosted a series of free public events about local community heritage. Each event allowed people to explore the local history and culture through the eyes of the community. Read more
Creative participation
Principal Investigator: Antonia Layard (University of Birmingham)
From 2011 to 2012
Creative Participation was a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Connected Communities programme in 2011-12. The project explored how three ‘pioneer communities’ in Newcastle, Cumbria and Bristol use creativity to involve themselves in place-making and planning practices after initial struggles to have a voice in the process. Read more
Cultural intermediation: connecting communities in the creative urban economy
Principal Investigator: Dr Phil Jones (University of Birmingham)
From 2012 to 2016
Cultural intermediation is a set of processes that seek to get people involved in activities within the creative and cultural economy. This can encompass a wide range of activities from poetry coaching through training people with new IT skills, to outreach activities by a local museum. Read more
Trade and traffic on the River Trent and associated waterways 1850-1970
Principal Investigator: Dr Richard Gaunt (Nottingham University)
From 2013 to 2014
The University of Nottingham is working with Newark Heritage Barge Charitable Incorporated Organisation (which is working to fit out a floating barge as a living museum) on a history of the river Trent from the coming of the railway in the mid-nineteenth century to the recent past. Read more
Co-producing legacy: What is the role of artists within Connected Communities projects?
Principal Investigator: Professor Kate Pahl University of Sheffield
From 2014 to 2015
This research project will explore how artists work within the AHRC Connected Communities programme. The programme has encouraged arts and humanities academics to work in different ways with communities to co-produce research across a range of disciplines. Many academics have worked with artists to realize ideas and help with a community engaged approach to research. Read more
Architecture><Community
Principal Investigator: Dr. Lorens Holm, University of Dundee
2011
This scoping study looks at the role architecture plays in humanities research into the cohesion and/or disintegration of communities, and suggests areas for collaboration. Without prejudice to other disciplines we developed the architecture – psychoanalysis collaboration as a worked example. Read more
