Diversity & Dissent‘Connectors, not Communities, in Preventing and Responding to Violence and Disaffection; Marginalised Youth and Complexities of ‘Community’
Principal Investigator: Basia Spalek
From 2014 to 2015
A critical theme emerging from three scoping studies conducted as part of the Connected Communities programme is that, in relation to marginalised young people and their “connections and disconnections” with communities, key individuals [‘connectors’] working within and across multiple communities often play a significant role in mediating many of the critical issues facing their lives. Read more
Connected lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities? A scoping study to explore understandings and experiences of ‘community’ among LGBT people
Principal Investigator: Eleanor Formby
2012
This study examined understandings and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities, and assessed implications for health and wellbeing. It was based on a review of existing literature, an online survey (627 respondents), and in-depth interviews and discussion groups with (44) LGBT people. Read more
Public Culture and Creative Spaces
Principal Investigator: Professor George McKay
From 2018 to 2019
The Public Culture and Creative Spaces project is a nine-month project that seeks to explore and capture some of the new thinking and practice around public culture, community construction and shared spaces. It aims to draw together the new knowledge and practice generated by funded research projects across Connected Communities with work across a number of academic disciplines as Read more
Song Lines to Impact and Legacy: Creating Living Knowledge through Working with Social Haunting
Principal Investigator: Geoff Bright
From 2015 to 2017
This project developed from the previous AHRC Connected Communities ECR Development Project, ‘Working with Social Haunting’ and the AHRC 2016 Festival project ‘Opening the ‘Unclosed Space’: Multiplying Ghost Labs as Intergenerational Utopian Practice’. Read more
Living Together: Re-Thinking Social Unity for a Multi-Faith Society
Principal Investigator: Dr Derek Edyvane, University of Leeds
2011
The ‘civic health’ discourse in contemporary politics presupposes an analogy between the lives of communities and the lives of individuals that is often overlooked. This report examines two prominent philosophical conceptions of the life of an individual – the ‘episodic’ and the ‘narrative’ – and considers what they can tell us about the lives of communities. Read more
Cultural Activism in the Community
Principal Investigator: Michael Buser
2012
This scoping study explored literature and debates on cultural activism and communities of place. Cultural activism is defined as a set of creative practices and activities which challenge dominant interpretations and constructions of the world, while presenting alternative socio-political and spatial imaginaries in ways which challenge relationships between art, politics, participation and spectatorship. 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
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
In conversation with…:co-designing with more-than-human communities
Principal Investigator: Dr Michelle Bastian; University of Edinburgh
From 2013 to 2014
The aim of this project is to explore how an expanded account of community – one which recognises the active participation of non-humans – might contribute to our understandings of how research can be co-designed and co-produced. 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
