Methods & TheoryBeyond the Campus: Connecting Knowledge and Creative Practice Communities Across Higher Education and the Creative Economy
Principal Investigator: Dr Roberta Comunian, King’s College London
From 2012 to 2015
The network aimed to create a platform for discussion between academics, practitioners, artists, cultural organisations, business development managers and other university directors, about knowledge connections and collaboration between universities and the creative and cultural sector. Read more
Researching in Public: Learning and Legacy in the Connected Communities Programme
Principal Investigator: Keri Facer
From 2013 to 2015
This longitudinal research project studies the Connected Communities Programme as a whole. It asks what we can learn from the programme about the implications of community-engaged and interdisciplinary research for participating researchers and collaborators, for the future of universities and for the production of knowledge. Read more
Reinventing Learning Cities
Principal Investigator: Keri Facer
From 2016 to 2017
The Reinventing Learning Cities research project explores the multiple ways in which cities learn through social, material and digital processes. Based at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, it constitutes part of the AHRC Connected Communities Programme. This project asks what methodologies we can deploy to reimagine and make visible the different learning processes in the city. 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
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
Around the Toilet
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jen Slater (Sheffield Hallam University)
From 2015 to 2018
The toilet is often thought to be a mundane space, but for those who lack adequate or accessible toilet provision on a daily basis, toilets become a crucial practical issue which can create and reaffirm feelings of exclusion and regulation. Thinking around toilets and their function as material as well as socio-cultural environments presents an opportunity to consider forms of identity in multi-faceted ways. Read more
The Hospitality Project
Principal Investigator: Naomi Millner
From 2015 to 2016
The Hospitality Project is an arts-based research collaboration between three universities (Bristol, Manchester, Leeds) and three Bristol-based community partners (Dignity for Asylum-Seekers, the Bristol Hospitality Network, and Barton Hill Walled Garden Project). Read more
Translation across borders: exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process
Principal Investigator: Stephen Connelly
From 2014 to 2015
The usefulness of academic research to policy making requires academic outputs to be easily taken up by policy makers. Yet mutual frustration persists. Academics often believe their evidence-based findings are ignored, while policy makers often feel that academic outputs are too abstract and/or complex to help in solving their problems. Read more
Time of the clock and time of the encounter
Principal Investigator: Dr Johan Siebers (University of Central Lancashire)
From 2012 to 2013
This project investigates the difference between the time of the clock and the lived time of experience. We live in a world dominated by the time of the clock, yet many aspects of life have a different rhythm and temporality. The time of community, especially, is very often more complex and differentiated that standardised clock time. Read more
Bridging the gap between academic rigour and community relevance: Fresh insights from American pragmatism
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen (Keele University)
2011
The project aims to exchange ideas across collaborating projects and their respective community partners about the type of knowledge that communities find useful. For example, is it the content/substance or the format/packaging of knowledge that matters most to them? Read more
