Methods & TheoryScaling up co-design research and practice
Principal Investigator: Dr Theodore Zamenopoulos (The Open University)
From 2013 to 2014
Community Partners: The Glass-House Community Led Design; Blackwood Foundation; Fossbox; Flossie; Silent Cities; Voluntary Action Westminster; Hannah Goraya The project focuses on organisations that support communities through creative co-design activities (including media, technology, product design and place-making). Read more
Leapfrog – transforming public sector consultation by design
Principal Investigator: Dr Leon Cruickshank, Lancaster University
From 2015 to 2017
The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and evaluate new creative approaches to consultation. Read more
Ritual Reconstructed: Challenges to Disconnection, Division and Exclusion in the Jewish LGBTQI Community
Principal Investigator: Dr Margaret Greenfields
From 2014 to 2015
This collaborative project, led by Bucks New University and undertaken in partnership with Liberal Judaism/Rainbow Jews; the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University and the University of Portsmouth consists of an exploration of the interplay between faith identity and sexual orientation as mediating or disrupting factors for London and South-East England based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Read more
Conceptualisations and meanings of “community”: the theory and operationalisation of a contested concept
Principal Investigator: Professor Graham Crow (University of Southampton)
2011
The project explored the many different ways that community relationships have been researched, focusing in particular on the range of research methods used by community researchers whose findings have been published since 2000. Read more
Temporal Belongings Research Network
Principal Investigator: Dr Michelle Bastian; University of Edinburgh
From 2012 to 2013
Despite time often being experienced as an objective and unchangeable force within which we live our lives, work across the social sciences and humanities argues that shared understandings of time intervene into social life, shaping social methods of inclusion and exclusion, understandings of how change happens and who can make change, as well as accounts of how the past and Read more
Valuing Different Perspectives
Principal Investigator: Dr Peter Matthews
2014
This project will run both a community-led and academic-led evaluation of project legacy from two previous Connected Communities projects – Community Hacking 2.0 and Ladders to the Cloud. At the heart of this proposal are complex issues of power, knowledge and methodology. Within this complexity are simple binaries that can be presented as poles: positivist-interpretivist; academic-community; participatory-external; quantitative-qualitative. Read more
Tackling ethical issues and dilemmas in community-based participatory research: a practical resource
Principal Investigator: Professor Sarah Jane Banks (Durham University)
2012
This project brought together community partners and academics from four previous Connected Communities projects to work on developing ethical guidelines for community-based participatory research (CBPR). After two rounds of consultation, a guide was developed and published by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement in November 2012. Read more
Philosophy and religious practices
Principal Investigator: Daniel Whistler (University of Liverpool)
This is a network organised by the University of Liverpool, Chesterand Liverpool Hope University, in partnership with local religious organisations, which aims to reconnect philosophers of religion with religious practitioners and so to make the work of philosophers of religion far more relevant to other contemporary research on religion by making the work of philosophers of religion far more relevant Read more
Homing In : Sensing, Sense-Making and Sustainable Place-Making (an arts and social sciences collaborative network)
Principal Investigator: Professor Karen Henwood (Cardiff University)
From 2013 to 2014
The major societal problems of our time require interconnected, collaborative efforts to creatively and imaginatively address the risks, instabilities, uncertainties and rapid pace of change in human-ecological relationships. Climate scientists warn of the effects of dangerous climate change. Social scientists and policy makers seek alternative strategies capable of promoting better science-public communications, community resilience and social sustainability. Read more
Valuing community-led design
Principal Investigator: Dr Aikaterini Alexiou (Open University)
From 2012 to 2013
The ideas and practice of community-led design, participatory design or co-design have a long-standing tradition, especially in the context of urban design, planning and architecture . Read more
