Culture & HeritageParticipatory 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
FLEX (Flexible Dwellings for Extended Living)
Principal Investigator: Prof Ann Light
From 2012 to 2013
The FLEX (Flexible Dwellings for Extended Living) project sought to address a challenge of 21st century wellbeing – an increasing older population that wants to age ‘at home’, facing the social isolation that accompanies the loss of traditional meeting places like pubs, pension queues, community centres and the High Street. 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
Voices of War and Peace
Principal Investigator: Ian Grosvenor
Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy is a First World War Engagement Centre funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund. Read more
Living Legacies 1914-18: From Past Conflict to Shared Future
Principal Investigator: Prof. Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)
From 2014
The Living Legacies 1914-18 Engagement Centre is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) until December 2016. It forms a focal point for connecting academic and community researchers interested in how the First World War lives on in the twenty-first century world. Read more
Everyday Lives in War: experience and memory of the First World War
Principal Investigator: Sarah Lloyd
From 2014 to 2016
The Everyday Lives in War centre is one of five First World War engagement centres funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 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
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
Stress Points: Policy and Practice in the Japanese Furniture Industry
Principal Investigator: Sarah Teasley
2012
Stress Points’ examines the relationship between local communities, industrial policy and global economic, cultural and political forces, through an extended exploration of public sector initiatives for developing and strengthening local furniture industries in Japan, c. 1890-1960. Read more
Sensing the late Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Archaeology of Hertfordshire
Principal Investigator: Kris Lockyear
From 2013 to 2014
The project has created a cross-archaeological society team of geophysicists who have undertaken magnetometry surveys of over a dozen sites in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We continue to survey sites when they become available. Read more
