Culture & HeritageUnderstanding everyday participation – articulating cultural values
Principal Investigator: Dr Andrew Miles (University of Manchester)
2011
This project proposes a radical re-evaluation of the relationship between participation and cultural value. We are used to thinking about the benefits of the arts as a traditional way of understanding culture and its value but what about the meanings and stakes people attach to their hobbies and pastimes? 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
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
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
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
ACCORD – Archaeology Community Co-Production of Research Data
Principal Investigator: Dr Stuart Jeffrey, Glasgow School of Art
From 2013 to 2015
The ACCORD project seeks to examine the opportunities and implications of digital visualisation technologies for community engagement and research through the co-creation of 3D models of heritage places. Despite their increasing accessibility, techniques such as laser scanning, 3D modelling and 3D printing have remained in the domain of heritage specialists. Read more
The role of creative interventions in fostering connectivity and resilience in older people
Principal Investigator: Anna Goulding, Newcastle University
2014
We are aiming to understand how creative interventions can help develop connectivity and resilience for older people. We will critically reflect on a range of projects including community gardening, filmmaking, the built environment, product design, digital media, theatre, music, cultural learning and visual arts interventions. Read more
Tangible Memories: Community in care
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Manchester
From 2014 to 2015
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team including digital artists and makers, learning researchers, computer scientists, social historians, older people themselves and those who work with them we are co-producing a set of new digital tools that will address some of the key societal challenges concerning the care and well-being of older people and the legacy of the memories and stories that Read more
The Poetics of the Archive: creative and community engagement with the Bloodaxe Archives
Principal Investigator: Professor Linda Anderson Newcastle University
From 2013 to 2015
The archive of Bloodaxe Books, newly acquired by Newcastle University, is one of the most extensive and significant poetry archives in the world. The challenge is to unlock its meaning and use by seeing it as more than a scholarly resource, accessible through standard search-based catalogue, and to allow more creative, open-ended and playful interactions with it. Read more
How should decisions about heritage be made?: Co-designing a research project
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds
2014
‘How should decisions about heritage be made?’ is an unusual research project because, when we started, we didn’t exactly know what it was about! This is because a team of people from lots of different types of organisations, groups and communities worked together in early 2013 to work together to design the research questions and its methods. Read more
