Methods & TheoryCommunity as micro-sociality and the new localism agenda
Principal Investigator: Professor Valerie Walkerdine
From 2012 to 2013
The Big Society and localism agendas bring to the fore issues of how communities might operate within a time of austerity. This project addresses current concerns by using a theoretical approach to community which understands it as relational activity, the act of communing, which is the small everyday activity which makes up what counts as community. Read more
Creative practice as mutual recovery: connecting communities for mental health and well-being
Principal Investigator: Professor Paul Crawford (University of Nottingham)
From 2013 to 2017
When considering the attributes that modern-day healthcare is frequently accused of lacking, it is all too easy to overlook one of the most precious of all: humanity. The nascent discipline of health humanities aims to address this critical shortcoming. 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
Networked communities as dynamic co-created learning environments
Principal Investigator: Professor Neil Ravenscroft
2013
Through a series of co-created and facilitated workshops and training programmes, Phase 1 of this project has brought facilitation practice into conversation with academic research methods to create a co-designed multi-method model for organising the generation of data about personal and community histories and associations. 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
Evaluating the Legacy of Animative and Iterative Connected Communities Projects: A Three Dimensional Model of Change
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen
From 2014 to 2015
This project explores ways of evaluating and enhancing the legacy of the Connected Communities (hereafter CC) programme by investigating and reflecting on the impacts that four projects funded within this programme have had in both in the communities with whom they were conducted and can have in new community settings, both in the UK and beyond. Read more
Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive
Principal Investigator: Simon Popple (University of Leeds)
From 2013 to 2015
Pararchive aims to co-produce a new open digital resource that will allow anyone to search and collect on-line sources and combine them with their own media (film, photographs and other ephemera) to tell their own stories, make new archives, be creative, start new projects and do their own research. Read more
Stories to connect with: disadvantaged children creating phygital community objects to share their life-narratives of resilience and transformation
Principal Investigator: Dr Candice Satchwell
From 2015 to 2017
Working with children and young people from Barnardo’s and other participatory groups, we will gather stories about young people’s lives which might otherwise not be heard. First we will train young people to become researchers, and they will ‘collect’ narratives from other young people. Then we will work with well-known children’s authors to make these stories into assemblages of fiction. Read more
Múin Béarla do na Leanbháin (Teach the Children English): Migration as a Prism for Viewing Ethnolinguistic Vitality in Northern Ireland
Principal Investigator: Professor Karen P. Corrigan
From 2014 to 2015
Research on language in Northern Ireland (NI) focuses on the varieties spoken by the major ethnicities. Their linguistic heritageshave been hotly disputed and scholarship reflects the socio-political conflict of ‘The Troubles’. The Peace Process has ensured greater protection for Irish and Ulster Scots and has also made NI more attractive, resulting in unprecedented immigration. Read more
Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network
Principal Investigator: Dr Gail McConnell, Queen's University Belfast
From 2015 to 2016
In the field of mental health research, voice-hearers feel the effects of academic language-use in their everyday lives through the hierarchical language of ‘others’ (e.g. ‘researcher’ and ‘researched’) and stigmatising labels. This project seeks to learn how to listen to ‘others’ and to counter oppressive structures of language-use by building a network of expertise in listening. It brings together voice-hearing networks, independent artists and academics to develop a suite of resources for creative listening practices. Read more
